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France’s Drive to Rebuild a Native Semiconductor Industry

France’s Drive to Rebuild a Native Semiconductor Industry

France’s Électronique 2030 program commits €5B+ to revitalize its semiconductor industry. Learn the details of this ambitious effort, and the market challenges it’s facing.


News Jun 11, 2026 by Gordon Feller
Siemens Intros AI-Powered Library Characterizer to Speed IC Design

Siemens Intros AI-Powered Library Characterizer to Speed IC Design

New characterization software delivers 7x throughput gains by combining a predictive AI engine with a purpose-built SPICE simulator.


News Jun 02, 2026 by Luke James
Cadence Unwraps Agentic AI Super Agent for Chip Design and Verification

Cadence Unwraps Agentic AI Super Agent for Chip Design and Verification

Announced today, the new ChipStack AI Super Agent from Cadence automates front end silicon design and verification, delivering a 10X productivity increase.


News Feb 10, 2026 by Duane Benson
PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

PI Introduces 1700V Switcher IC With More Than 99% Reliability

Power Integrations has upped its GaN game with InnoMux-2 IC, delivering more than 90% efficiency from a 1000 VDC bus and supplying up to 60 W from three accurately regulated outputs.


Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

Siemens Unveils 3-Piece Emulation and Prototyping Solution

The new hardware-assisted verification and validation system marks a first for the EDA industry.


News Feb 21, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Create World’s First Graphene Semiconductor

Researchers Create World’s First Graphene Semiconductor

Georgia Tech research could bring graphene's benefits for semiconductors in microelectronics.


News Jan 18, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Firms Forge Alliance to Bring Piezoelectric MEMS to the Middle Market

Firms Forge Alliance to Bring Piezoelectric MEMS to the Middle Market

Launched today, this new alliance promises to make high quality thin-film piezoelectric (PZT) technology more accessible to piezoelectric MEMS developers.


News Jan 17, 2024 by Duane Benson
I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

I’m Thankful for These 6 EE Online Resources on All About Circuits

On Thanksgiving today, Jeff reflects on how electronics technology enables all our amazing devices, and shares six useful All About Circuits online resources to be thankful for.


News Nov 23, 2023 by Jeff Child
Microsoft Ventures Into Custom Silicon With New AI Accelerator and CPU

Microsoft Ventures Into Custom Silicon With New AI Accelerator and CPU

Microsoft is making its debut into in-house silicon with two new custom chips, claimed to improve AI performance in its data centers.


News Nov 20, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Whether you are just starting your first year as an engineering student, working on a second or third degree, or simply want to brush up on key topics, All About Circuits has the resources you need: awesome textbooks, technical articles, calculators, and more for your EE studies.


News Oct 11, 2023 by Jeff Child
Intel Develops Glass Substrate for Next Gen Advanced Chip Packaging Needs

Intel Develops Glass Substrate for Next Gen Advanced Chip Packaging Needs

Intel has unveiled new glass substrate technology for large chiplet based system-in-package chips. Glass substrates allow for denser packing of chiplets—an important for applications like AI and others.


News Sep 25, 2023 by Duane Benson
Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

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.


News Aug 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz
At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

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.


News Jul 17, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Eliyan Talks First Silicon on ‘Most Efficient’ Chiplet Interconnect

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.


News Jun 19, 2023 by Duane Benson
Synopsys Debuts Full-stack AI-based EDA Tool Suite for IC Engineers

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.


News Mar 29, 2023 by Jeff Child
Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Seeking to leverage today’s data-rich engineering world, Siemens has released Questa Verification IQ, a software platform enabling data-driven IC verification.


News Feb 03, 2023 by Jeff Child
Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

All About Circuits spoke with IBM physicist and chief quantum hardware architect Oliver Dial to get exclusive details on IBM's 400+ qubit quantum processor: Osprey.


News Jan 23, 2023 by Ingrid Fadelli
Server-class RISC-V Core Unveiled by Ventana at RISC-V Summit

Server-class RISC-V Core Unveiled by Ventana at RISC-V Summit

In a bid to bring RISC-V to the high-performance, data center computing space, Ventana announced their Veyron family, a series of processors positioned to offer the flexibility needed to drive innovation.


News Dec 19, 2022 by Aaron Carman
“RISC-V is Inevitable”—A Tale of Two RISC-V Summit Keynotes

“RISC-V is Inevitable”—A Tale of Two RISC-V Summit Keynotes

At the annual summit, leaders in the RISC-V community had much to say about RISC-V taking over the world.


News Dec 16, 2022 by Jeff Child
5 Online EE Resources I WOULD Have Been Thankful For

5 Online EE Resources I WOULD Have Been Thankful For

On this Thanksgiving Day, Jeff wonders what his EE college days would have been like if he’d had access to All About Circuits’ rich online resources.


News Nov 24, 2022 by Jeff Child