• Audition
A startup devises software tools that promise to help fabs accelerate process engineering.
What’s at stake:
The chip industry’s trajectory changed forever when a wave of EDA companies sprang up in the 1980s and offered commercial tools to accelerate complex IC design. Traditionally reliant on internal expertise to improve process engineering at fabs, chipmakers might now be ready to embrace commercial tools developed for semiconductor production.
Manufacturing is the new black in the chip industry.