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TSVs and layers of organic electronics provide two ways to build medical sensors and prosthetics, as shown at ISSCC 2013.

Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures

ISSCC expert panel highlights lowering power over energy sources and identifies the need to focus on the product rather than the technology

A team effort between three French companies has resulted in the launch of an FPGA prototyping system that is intended to provide emulation of designs with up to 25 million ASIC gates.

Cadence Design Systems is to buy Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.

GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are "uncommon solutions" to come from a foundry, the company claims.

GlobalFoundries and Samsung described how they are readying finFETs for production at CPTF 2013 and how the 28nm processes will have a long shelf life.

Cadence Design Systems has built into its latest Virtuoso update features designed to tackle the problems of working with the 20nm generation of processes with finer control over layout-dependent effects, double patterning and new types of local interconnect.

Even though inventories are slack right, chipmakers could be struggling to find wafers in 2014.

Future Horizon’s forecast meeting for the first half of 2013 made it clear how the electronics sector and the semiconductor industry in particular is facing big problems.