October 9, 2012
With the foundry giant set to take the wraps off its latest flows and innovations in just seven days, remember that you must pre-register to attend its Silicon Valley event. Also here are some pre-event pointers.
October 4, 2012
Achronix plans to use the FPGA fabric that it has developed for standalone products to be fabbed through Intel as the springboard for an embedded-FPGA offering.
September 20, 2012
GlobalFoundries has confirmed its 14nm process as the one that will see the foundry introduced finFET-based transistors, claiming that its approach is optimized for mobile devices
August 6, 2012
TSMC follows Intel in taking a stake in ASML to accelerate development of EUV and 450mm lithography equipment.
August 6, 2012
The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
June 12, 2012
You want finFETs with different threshold voltages on the same SoC? Forget what the FD-SOI guys tell you: it's possible. At least with a certain amount of performance loss, say IBM and GlobalFoundries.
June 11, 2012
A deal between GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics has answered the question as to where ICs based on an FD-SOI process can be made, and not just for ST.
June 5, 2012
Foundries can’t hand down design rules on tablets of stone any more - success at 20nm will take close collaboration with customers and tool vendors
June 4, 2012
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is targeting the end of the year for release 2.0 of its OpenDFM standard, which will include support for DRC+ and make it possible to build search engines for yield.
June 1, 2012
The troops will be out in force next week to claim progress on 20nm AMS design flows that take manufacturability into account.
