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Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Emerging from stealth mode, HaiLa believes they can enable a future of IoT nodes without batteries.

August 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz

At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

A slew of new electronic design automation (EDA) tools and resources for IC design and verification were debuted at last week’s DAC 2023 event. Here’s a sampling.

July 17, 2023 by Darshil Patel

Rambus Serves up Quantum-safe IP Solutions To Fend off Attacks

The new Root of Trust IP from Rambus offers post-quantum cryptography hardware solutions.

July 12, 2023 by Jake Hertz

What Intel’s European Investments Say About Its Tech Roadmap

Intel has pledged 33 billion euros to expand its semiconductor presence across Europe. Here's what the breakdown of those funds looks like.

June 29, 2023 by Chantelle Dubois

AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

The company positions the new chiplet-based SoC as well suited for todays’ ever more complex chip designs.

June 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz

With PowerVia Backside Power, Intel Anticipates Big Chip Breakthroughs

Intel has unveiled a new backside power delivery technology called PowerVia, which decouples power and signal interconnects on a wafer to increase performance and lower costs.

June 22, 2023 by Arjun Nijhawan

Intel Makes New Quantum Chip Available to Research Community

Tunnel Falls removes barriers to entry for quantum research by leveraging traditional transistor processes for high-yield fabrication.

June 19, 2023 by Aaron Carman

Eliyan Talks First Silicon on ‘Most Efficient’ Chiplet Interconnect

Claiming record time for its first silicon, chiplet interconnect specialist Eliyan lays out its case for how its Nulink UCIe interconnect offers advantages over silicon interposer approaches.

June 19, 2023 by Duane Benson

Exclusive Interview: NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor From Scratch

Using plain English—not a hardware definition language—a group of researchers used generative AI to successfully design a microprocessor.

June 16, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Photonic Chip Design Rethink Could Cut Data Center Energy Use

Leveraging novel photonic circuit designs, researchers hope to lower electricity consumption in data centers.

June 02, 2023 by Kristijan Nelkovski

Axelera AI Raises $50 Million to ‘Mainstream’ Edge AI

Leveraging its proprietary in-memory compute scheme and RISC-V dataflow technology, Axelera AI seeks to “democratize” artificial intelligence (AI).

May 31, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Intel Rolls First FPGA with PCIe 5.0 and Compute Express Link

By embedding PCI Express 5.0 and CXL support, Intel’s new FPGAs seek to tackle high-bandwidth computing workloads.

May 25, 2023 by Chantelle Dubois

Broadcom to Supply Apple’s 5G Components in the US

Despite Apple’s internal efforts, the company still needs to rely on third parties for wireless chips.

May 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Semtech Unveils Chip That Eases 5G Mobile Device Compliance

A new IC from Semtech hopes to improve 5G device performance in the face of Specific Absorption Rate compliance.

April 17, 2023 by Jake Hertz

All About Circuits Connections—Industry Jobs for April 4, 2023

Join our light-hearted look at the serious topic of job hunting as All About Circuits looks to help connect the great engineers in our audience with the amazing companies in our industry. If you apply for jobs with any of these companies, please tell them All About Circuits sent you!

April 04, 2023 by Dale Wilson

Synopsys Debuts Full-stack AI-based EDA Tool Suite for IC Engineers

At today’s Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) event, Synopsys has unveiled a full-stack suite of AI-based EDA tools.

March 29, 2023 by Jeff Child

Startup Enfabrica’s Accelerated Compute Fabric Addresses AI/ML in the Cloud

The networking silicon and software company emerged from stealth mode today at the inaugural MemCon, where it is introducing new Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) devices with the goal of addressing interface bottlenecks and scalability challenges in AI computing.

March 28, 2023 by Dale Wilson

The Story of Silicon Valley Giant Gordon Moore, Father of Moore’s Law

While Gordon Moore is best known for his transistor scaling theory, he also devoted his life to other semiconductor breakthroughs—like the integrated circuit—along with philanthropic pursuits.

March 24, 2023 by Tyler Charboneau

NVIDIA Unveils cuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

At NVIDIA’s GTC this week, the company lifted the curtain on a software suite that may drastically improve the resolution of existing lithographic systems.

March 22, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Women’s History Month Spotlight: Lynn Conway, Pioneer of VLSI Design

For many computer scientists and EEs, Conway's textbook on VLSI design was one of the most influential books of its time. But Conway's story is far more expansive and influential than the textbook alone.

March 13, 2023 by Chantelle Dubois