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Out of Intel, America's Dream Foundry: Here's How

Out of Intel, America’s Dream Foundry: Here’s How

The Ojo-Yoshida Report suggests the creation of a foundry with a startup mentality out of Intel Foundry Services to meet America’s desire for a world-class contract chip manufacturing business.
Intel’s Crisis Was Predictable. Its Future Isn’t a Mystery, Either

Intel’s Crisis Was Predictable. Its Future Isn’t a Mystery, Either

Missteps by some previous CEOs doomed Intel. Current CEO Gelsinger worsened the crisis. It must shrink and break up.
Can Intel Auto Chip Chart a New Course?

Can Intel Auto Chip Chart a New Course?

Intel’s perennial high hopes to break into non-PC businesses have mostly foundered. Can Intel Auto right the leaky ship?
Intel: The Beginning of the End?

Intel: The Beginning of the End?

The signs are mounting up that chip giant Intel Corp. is not long for this world – at least not in the form familiar to most industry observers.
CHIPS Act: Undr The Hood

CHIPS Act: Under The Hood

We talked to the Department of Commerce for a breakdown by the CHIPS Program Office.
The Engineering of the CHIPS Act

The Engineering of the CHIPS Act

Two years after the CHIPS and Science Act became law, it’s time to assess how the US government has been administering the program, who’s involved in making decisions, and how the feds plan to achieve the CHIPS Act’s goals.

How IoT is Tackling Global Challenges

The global impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) is evident in its diverse applications across continents. It’s addressing rapid urbanization in the developing nations, tackling water scarcity and climate change, ensuring food safety and supply chain transparency, optimizing natural resource use in amid environmental concerns, and transforming healthcare.
Shift from Hardware-Defined SoCs to Workload-Optimized Chips

Shift from Hardware-Defined SoCs to Workload-Optimized Chips

A change is underway in chip design as companies like Google, Apple or Tesla design their own chips.
Infineon: Bellwether for a Semiconductor Market in Transition

Infineon: Bellwether for a Semiconductor Market in Transition

Infineon is one of a select number of semiconductor vendors that the industry can rely upon for guidance in a market experiencing rapid and disruptive product and technology changes.
Pop Quiz on India

Pop Quiz on India

India is the hot story again. But how much do we really know about India?
India’s ‘Brain Gainers’ Target Chip Startups

India’s ‘Brain Gainers’ Target Chip Startups

The career of a man assigned by Intel in 1996 to create a ‘mini-Intel’ in India compels a rethink of India’s trajectory.
What If Your Chip, Plane, Data Center Silently Failed?

What If Your Chip, Plane, Data Center Silently Failed?

How big a deal are silent errors that reportedly occur in chips at a rate of one in 5,000? This “glitch” could devastate hyperscalers such as Meta, Google, Microsoft and others whose business must balance between scale and sustainability.
Intel Needs an Active, Competent Board, not a ‘Savior’ CEO

Intel Says it’s Building ‘Two World-Class Companies.’ Meaning, please?

Questions continue to swirl about Intel’s structural evolution. CEO Gelsinger isn’t helping with his mixed signals about the future of the foundry unit.

With Nvidia, It’s Always Take It or Leave It

With its automotive SoC, Nvidia promises carmakers a licensable ASIL-D certified software stack. But OEMs face the dilemma of either getting locked into Nvidia or designing alternative stacks of their own with no adequate support from Nvidia.
'Don’t touch me, you brute!'

‘Don’t Touch Me, You Brute!’

In the advent of electronic “software defined vehicles” and ultimately robocars, we’re witnessing the demotion of the senses.

The Business of Semiconductor Summit, Explained

Semiconductors are now ubiquitous in the global economy. Their role will only expand, which means it is time to take seriously discussions about the business of semiconductor.
Tenstorrent’s Not-So-Secret AI Plan: ‘Don’t Compete with Nvidia’

Tenstorrent’s Not-So-Secret AI Plan: ‘Don’t Compete with Nvidia’

What strategy must AI chip startups hatch to go long in the Nvidia-dominant AI market?
As 2 nm approaches, the focus shifts toward interconnect

As 2nm Approaches, the Focus Shifts Toward Interconnect

2nm process nodes are hard enough. But equally critical to the success of 2nm is the interconnect wires that connect the transistors into circuits, ICs, and multi-die modules.

TSMC’s ‘Invaluable’ Status Makes it a Target. Change, it Must

TSMC carries the hope of the technology world for a hitch free semiconductor manufacturing supply chain. It may be up to the task, but has the foundry accepted this is a heavy burden and its fate, for which it must be willing to change further? We suggest some actions.
What is a foundry? Is it time for redefinition or regulation?

What Is a Foundry? Is It Time for Redefinition or Regulation?

Foundries were the means by which access to semiconductor manufacturing was democratized. And now the market has come full-circle putting others in-line behind Nvidia and Apple or coerced to shop elsewhere.