On 7/27/09 at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco, ARM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, IBM, Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced an agreement to establish a comprehensive technology enablement solution for SoC designs targeted at the mobile internet space specifically for the 32nm and 28nm process geometries.
While collaborations and partnerships between different semiconductor companies and [...]

With reports of Q2 2009 foundry sales doubling compared to Q1 2009, foundries are increasing capital expenditures, beefing up design enablement tools and keeping their fingers crossed that improved sales will last for more than just two quarters.
The big news is that GLOBALFOUNDRIES is already making progress on their goal to win new sales from [...]

At a time when most companies are cutting back on capital investment and capacity expansions, the challenge of developing a high technology industrial park appears to be an impossible task.  But Silicon Border continues to seize that challenge.Â
Silicon Border is a 10,000 acre science park located in Mexicali, capital of Baja California.  The park hopes [...]

In July Semico published a blog, “GM should kill the Corvette.  That blog generated a heavy reader response, much of it defending the Corvette and its pushrod technology.  Having read the responses, I still think the Corvette uses highly-developed but archaic technology; but I also believe that the reasons why GM should kill the Corvette have to do with marketing, [...]

The Corvette is an American icon, the only American car capable of competing with exotic, imported sports carts; but GM should kill it.  The screams of legions of irate Corvette lovers can be heard in the background; but GM should ignore that and kill the Corvette.  One reason is that it uses antiquated technology, developed [...]

The race to mass produce the next innovation in nonvolatile semiconductor memory appears to have a new contender.   Phase change memory (PCM) has been touted by industry leaders for years.  As far back as December of 2006 Wilhelm Beignvogl, SVP, technical innovation, Qimonda AG, stated, “phase change memories have the clear potential to play an [...]