ecosystem

Chiplets will need models to guarantee heterogenous SiP implementation. A cross-industry working group describes its progress so far.

Microsemi has set up an ecosystem program around the RISC-V soft cores the company has designed for its FPGAs.

The ESD Alliance is relaunching the annual panel session featuring CEOs from ARM, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys in Mountain View on April 9.

HiSilicon claims close collaboration with foundry and EDA tools partners helped speed up plans to tape out the first 16nm finFET-based design through TSMC.

Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is to get a helping hand to develop a production-class 28nm process from Qualcomm Technologies.

But some research and process collaboration is set to continue in the background as Samsung, GlobalFoundries and IBM chart their own priorities.

For its Printed Electronics conference, IDTechEx pulled together a team together with P&G to develop a collaborative demonstration of the technology.

NXP Semiconductors has decided to buy tools supplier Code Red Technologies to help build up software support for its ARM-based microcontrollers.

The semiconductor industry is reaching a crunch point at which companies that form it have to work together much more closely, says Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons.

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