Annual Global IC Fabs And Facilities Report
Home / Annual Global IC Fabs And Facilities Report Semiconductor companies announced a significant number of facilities in 2025 as global onshoring efforts continued across manufacturing, materials, packaging, design, and R&D. Investments came from both industry and government sources. Organizations worked together to solve current technology challenges, including soaring demand for AI chips and advanced […]
Programmable Chips Evolve For Shifting Needs
Home / Programmable Chips Evolve For Shifting Needs ICs and SoCs are utilizing a range of processing elements that allow them to optimize current workloads while hedging their bets for the future. What used to be a simple choice between an ASIC, FPGA, or DSP, has evolved into a mix of processor types and architectures, […]
Shaping The Future Of AI Processors: A Tech Threads Conversation With Jim Keller
Home / Shaping The Future Of AI Processors: A Tech Threads Conversation With Jim Keller I had the pleasure of hosting renowned computer architect and Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller, on the latest episode of Baya Systems’ Tech Threads podcast. If you haven’t already, listen to get his insights on the need for “open” intelligence architectures and what […]
Even With AI Inroads, Human Chip Designers Still Essential
Home / Even With AI Inroads, Human Chip Designers Still Essential The proliferation of AI tools seems perfectly matched to fill a talent shortage, but a closer look shows the skills do not entirely overlap. Certain parts of the EDA pipeline require human engineers, and it seems likely to stay that way for the foreseeable […]
Startup Tips To Get From Seed Funding To Series A, B, C
Home / Startup Tips To Get From Seed Funding To Series A, B, C Startups are often created by experienced engineers who figure out how to solve a technical problem they are dealing with at work, or by PhD candidates in research labs before they have even started their first full-time job. Either way, getting […]
Speeding Time To Market With A Future-Proof Fabric
Home / Speeding Time To Market With A Future-Proof Fabric This whitepaper covers how Tenstorrent is elevating their AI fabric to new heights of performance, efficiency, and productivity through a collaboration with Baya Systems. Tenstorrent’s in-house fabric has set a new standard for efficiency and performance in AI compute in their current generation products and […]
AI’s Value In Chip Design Depends On Data Availability
Home / AI’s Value In Chip Design Depends On Data Availability Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages and challenges in using AI in designing chips, with Chuck Alpert, Cadence Fellow; Sathish Balasubramanian, head of product marketing and senior director for custom IC at Siemens EDA; Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of […]
How AI Will Impact Chip Design And Designers
Home / How AI Will Impact Chip Design And Designers Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the role and impact of AI in chip design with Chuck Alpert, Cadence Fellow; Sathish Balasubramanian, head of product marketing and senior director for custom IC at Siemens EDA; Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of AI product […]
For Chip Developers, HW/SW Co-Design Key To Data Center Efficiency
Home / For Chip Developers, HW/SW Co-Design Key To Data Center Efficiency Data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) are the primary enablers of today’s power-hungry AI-driven technology, but chip designers, EDA vendors, and the data centers themselves have a long list of options available to them to help curb AI’s power consumption. Chip designers play […]
Security Vulnerabilities Difficult To Detect In Verification Flow
Home / Security Vulnerabilities Difficult To Detect In Verification Flow As designs grow in complexity and size, the landscape for potential hackers to infiltrate a chip at any point in either the design or verification flow increases commensurately. Long considered to be a “safe” aspect of the design process, verification now must be a focus […]