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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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IEDM 2017

The start of December means it is the International Electron Devices Meeting in San…

• 6 min read
Intel , copper beol , 3D IC , AMD , georgia tech , Samsung , TSMC , fanout wafer packaging , GlobalFoundries

Greg Yeric and Rob Aitken Dive into the Details

The last day of TechCon had two keynotes rich in deeper technical content, from Greg…

• 6 min read
security , greg yeric , graphen , IoT , trillion devices , Rob Aitken , more than Moore , moore's law , power

Advanced Packaging Delivers More Than Moore

Moore's Law is running out of steam. Depending on your point of view, it is dead…

• 8 min read
FOWLP , advanced packaging , 3DIC , Virtuoso , OrbitIO , Innovus , 2.5D , Allegro

Supercomputers

HPC, or high-performance computing, is one of the big focus areas for semiconductors…

• 9 min read
Intel , top 500 list , top500 , supercomputer

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 11th to 15th 2017

https://youtu.be/Ar98HS9Dnow Coming from Union Square, San Francisco (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
government , risc-v , International Electron Devices Meeting , cots , risc-v workshop , Aviation , IEDM

Formal Verification Sign-Off...and the First Text Message

Recently, it was the 10th annual Jasper User Group meeting (see my earlier post Jasper…

• 8 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , Oski Technology , Formal verification

Silexica: Mastering Multicore

Since the invention of the microprocessor, it was a dream that it would be possible…

• 9 min read
silexica , Tensilica , multicore

Jasper User Group: How to Be a Formal Verification Lead

Recently, it was the 10th annual Jasper User Group meeting (see my earlier post Jasper…

• 7 min read
Intel , Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , verification

Chips and Technologies: The First Fabless Company

As part of writing Fabless: the Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry a couple…

• 5 min read
fabless , chips and technologies , foundry

November Breakfast Buffet

https://youtu.be/paqvuLll4pM Coming from the rain on the roof of Cadence building…

• less than a min read
Jasper User Group , Rutenbar , breakfast buffet , JUG , Kaufman Award , fabless , alto , chips and technologies , social engineering

CCIX Update: TSMC, Xilinx, Cadence, Arm...and Jasper

CCIX (pronounced see-six) is the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators. I…

• 5 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , ccix , TSMC , xilinx , ARM

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 4th to 8th 2017

https://youtu.be/LcmP8GkqvEw Coming from outside on the Cadence campus (camera…

• less than a min read
ARM Techcon , Jasper User Group , supercomputers , more than Moore , 3D packaging , ARM , IEDM

What's the Difference Between MOESI and MESI? Cache-Coherence for Poets

Increasingly, a lot of SOCs contain multicore processors, multiple separate processors…

• 9 min read
moesi , cache-coherent interconnect , formal , cache-coherence , cache , JasperGold , mesi , Formal verification

What You See Isn't Always What You Get

I wrote earlier in the week, in my post The Alto—Forty Years On , about the origin…

• 3 min read
thanksgiving , off-topic , illusion

The Alto—Forty Years On

I talked yesterday about the history of the Xerox PARC Alto machine, which is a computer…

• 6 min read
icarus , alto , xerox , PARC , wysiwyg

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 27th to December 1st 2017

https://youtu.be/AMMOBeri5E8 Coming from building 10 fussball table (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
silexica , JUG , ccix , chips & technologies , Jasper , cache-coherence

The Alto: The Machine That Changed the World

The Machine That Changed the World is actually the title of a well-known book about…

• 5 min read
icarus , computer history museum , chm , alto , xerox , PARC

CASPA Fuses AI and Semiconductor

CASPA is the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association. Once a year…

• 9 min read
deep learning , semi , caspa , Semiconductor , AI

Foundry Roadmaps: Intel, Samsung

I definitely had cognitive dissonance at the ARM foundry talks at TechCon. The first…

• 6 min read
Intel , ARM Techcon , Samsung , TSMC , icf , FinFET , 7nm , ARM , EUV , Techcon , FD-SOI

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 20th to 22nd 2017

https://youtu.be/aLx0C8H6qt8 Coming from Second Harvest Food Bank, San Jose (camera…

• less than a min read
thanksgiving , alto , xerox , PARC

IEDM Preview 2017

Every December is IEDM, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). This…

• 5 min read
Intel , IBM , 3D NAND , copper , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , MRAM , IEDM , electron devices

Jasper User Group 2017

This year's Jasper User Group (JUG) took place on 7th November. It was the 10th JUG…

• 6 min read
Jasper User Group , aruba , JUG , formal , ARM , JasperGold

How's Technology in Israel?

Last week was the last CDNLive of 2017 (cats have nine lives, Cadence had nine CDNlives…

• 10 min read
CDNLive , mellanox , machine learning , Lip-Bu Tan , Anirudh Devgan , eyal wladman , Israel

Arm Security Manifesto...and Krack

The Internet of Things (IoT) could be a big number...20 billion things... 50 billion…

• 7 min read
security , ARM Techcon , Simon Segars , security manifesto , reaper , wi-fi , mira , ARM , krack

Social Engineering

The biggest weakness in security are the people. It is almost never the encryption…

• 6 min read
security , spearphishing , phishing , social engineering , ARM , ddos , Techcon

Simon Segars: It's the Security, Stupid

Simon Segars opened the second day of Arm TechCon (or for exhibitors who didn't notice…

• 9 min read
security , ARM Techcon , Simon Segars , softbank , ARM , krack

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/Ar6PcH48DNo Coming from David Intercontinental Tel Aviv (camera…

• less than a min read
ARM Techcon , artificial intelligence , Jasper User Group , deep learning , CDNLive , JUG , Samsung , TSMC , intel custom foundry , caspa , cdnlive israel , ARM , IEDM

October Revolution

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. But wait, isn…

• 8 min read
st petersburg , Sparc , Russia , moscow , center for sparc technology , leningrad
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