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Global fab equipment spending promises to rebound from its 2019 downturn and see a modest recovery this year before a sharp uptick drives record investments in 2021, SEMI reported today in the latest update of its World Fab Forecast report. The report shows a slow recovery in 2020 – 3% year-over-year (YoY) growth to US$57.8 […]
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An article written by Pradeep Chakraborty for Pradeep’s Techpoints | The demand for system-in-package (SiP) has increased significantly in recent years, with an adoption in a wide ranging of applications. Flip-chip and wire-bond platforms dominate the SiP market. There are ample opportunities for fan-out and embedded-die packaging solutions as well. Strong advancement in packaging technologies There have […]
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What International Women’s Day has to do with the semiconductor industry. The post A Tipping Point For Women In Semiconductors appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we take a closer look at deep learning model acceleration and the future of Moore’s Law. First up, Tom Smelker (Mercury Systems) and I discuss modular chip design and why he thinks it will be crucial to the next phase of Moore’s Law. Next, we investigate AI hardware and […]
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Cryptocurrency fraud is aggressively on the rise and topped over $4 billion last year, according to the security tracking company Chainalysis. This is especially shocking to those who thought they had found an incredible investment in the cryptocurrency world, yet were swindled out of everything. As part of these cryptocurrency… Read More
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AMD, MediaTek, TI, IBM, Samsung and CEA-Leti all made leaps in circuit design, which they discussed during the processor track at ISSCC. The post ISSCC 2020: Chiplets, 5G, and Automotive Processors appeared first on EETimes.
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Global 5G smartphone shipments will grow more than tenfold from 19 million units in 2019 to 199 million in 2020, according to the report ‘Global Handset Sales for 88 Countries & 19 Technologies’ from the Strategy Analytics Emerging Device Technologies (EDT) service…
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The coronavirus epidemic is likely to have a negative impact on general markets, especially consumer markets. Global GDP is going to take at least a minor hit. The post Covid-19 Is Crimping the Electronics Industry appeared first on EETimes.
On this week’s show, privacy was a big theme beginning with our conversation about Ring’s sharing of certain user data with third-party tracking sites, a plea from 40 organizations for the U.S. to stop using facial recognition technology, and a new way to think about smart cities. Kevin and I also discussed proposed device security […]
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Should there be a “Finishing School” for electrical and electronic engineers in which they were taught a suite of real-world nitty-gritty skills?
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“The last few years have witnessed the rise of the leading-edge GPU/ CPU markets”, announces Yohann Tschudi, PhD. Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole). “This has been driven by a host of datacenter applications, such as exascale computing and AI training.” Among these, the market research and strategy consulting company Yole has decided […]
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Post-graduates and onboarding talent will connect with local companies to explore semiconductor industry career paths and employment opportunities at the SEMI Talent Forum, 6 March 2020 in Swansea, UKat the University of Swansea. Sponsored by SEMI, the industry association representing the global electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, and staged in partnership with European organizations […]
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Aspencore Media, the publishing house that owns EE Times, has launched a Special Project, “Outbreak in Wuhan,” seeking to define the global impact of the deadly virus in the electronic industry. The post Outbreak in Wuhan appeared first on EETimes.
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Common trends and bottlenecks in DRAM architecture are identified. The post The History and Future of DRAM Architecture in Different Application Domains: An Analysis appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.
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As concerns about the latest coronavirus escalate, events are getting delayed or canceled, at no small cost. Semi has put off Semicon Korea and Semicon China. The post Events Across SE Asia Cancelled Due to China Virus Outbreak appeared first on EETimes.
In this week’s podcast, we are tackling two of the biggest themes at this year’s Embedded Tech Trends Conference: SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) and artificial intelligence processing at the edge. First up, I take a closer look at SOSA with Rodger Hoskins from Pentek. Rodger and I discuss the role SOSA will have in […]
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We are entering the second quantum revolution, when engineering is needed to develop future quantum systems! With multiple announcements in 2019 related to quantum computing, the way to a universal quantum computer is getting clearer. But the question is still the same: when will universal quantum computers be available? The post-Snowden world is ahead! Data […]
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AEB is fundamental to ADAS. But AEB adapted to pedestrians is “an order of magnitude harder than AEB,” an expert says. The post Why ADAS Cars Go People-Blind appeared first on EETimes.
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Broad implications for a global supply chain. The post Chips, Business And The Coronavirus appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
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FPGAs, today and throughout the history of semiconductors, play a critical role in design enablement and electronic systems. Which is why we included the history of FPGAs in our book “Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry” and added a new chapter in the 2019 edition on the history of Achronix. In a recent blog… […]
