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AI Chip-Layout Tool Has Helped Design Over 100 Chips.
Synopsys’ AI solution for semiconductor design has achieved the milestone of 100 commercial chip tape-outs. The company said in a press release that customers such as STMicroelectronics and SK hynix have enjoyed up to 3x productivity increases, seeing chips with up to 25% lower total power ...Read more -
Huawei Hides Displayed Chips to Protect Suppliers at MWC
For Huawei, it is close to impossible to procure chips for its server and communications products that are widely used in China and other countries. But that doesn’t mean that the company cannot get chips at all; it just does not want anyone to know who sells them. At Mobile World Congress ...Read more -
Business | Schumpeter The cloud is the fiercest front in the chip wars
Data-centre chips were once a stale monopoly. Now the business is brimming with competition It is easy to think of the computing cloud as the placeless whereabouts of the latest Netflix series, your Spotify playlists, millions of wanton selfies and your digital assistant...Read more -
Business | Schumpeter Is Nvidia underestimating the chip crunch?
If so, so what? Jensen Huang is a man literally schooled in adversity. When the co-founder of Nvidia, America’s most valuable semiconductor company, was first sent to boarding school in Kentucky, little did his Taiwanese relatives realise that it was a school for trouble...Read more -
Carmakers and semiconductors pinned by chips
Carmakers are rethinking supply chains for the electric era 1. The sudden unavailability a decade ago of cars in “tuxedo black”, “rugged brown” or “royal red” highlighted the vulnerability of the industry’s global supply chain. The abrupt closure of the only factory maki...Read more