Research

The choices for heterogeneous integration are falling into three main families, demonstrated by A*Star at IEDM 2022.

FHE use-cases are evolving and the NextFlex consortium is looking to smooth their path with a strategy, PDKs and reference modules.

DAC 2021 is looming and here is our first round up of a major EDA player's plans for the physical event in San Francisco.

Pent-up demand and mis-timed capacity investment could cause rapid IC industry growth.

Benchmark study detects correlation between maturity of verification processes and the quality of designs when they reach production.

Use of the open-source RISC-V processor was tracked for the first time by the biennial study, finding notably high take-up.

AI, its system design implications and its impact on EDA tools themselves will be a key theme for ES Design West next month.

Analyst Rich Valera points to China as a major source of EDA tool growth despite short-term tensions with the US government.

Do China's ambitions as a world-class innovator face fundamental challenges as a result of the sector's existing economic infrastructure?

If current market trends persist, shortages in wafers are likely to follow, hurting the ability of some companies to ship silicon and boost the prices for those who can.