Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — November 19, 2024—Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, in collaboration with Silesia Devices, today announced a new IP core that implements the Serial Peripheral Interface for Automotive Safety (SafeSPI), an emerging open standard that adds Functional Safety and interoperability features to the de-facto Serial Peripheral Interface
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Introduction to Gate-All-Around (GAA) Transistors
Gate-all-around (GAA) transistors are a newly introduced type of transistor structure: the gate terminal connects with the channel on all sides. Gate-All-Around transistors are a multi-gate field effect transistors type where a silicon nanowire gate moves around the channel by further scaling down FinFET. The
[Nov 12, 2024] – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba today announced a substantial new investment plan totaling over JPY10 trillion (approximately US$87 billion) for the nation’s semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries by fiscal year 2030. This ambitious initiative aims to stimulate a total of JPY50 trillion (approximately US$346 billion) in
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SoC designs are everywhere in our lives. From smartphones and laptops to smart home devices and automobiles, SoCs power a vast array of electronic devices. The demand for increasingly sophisticated and interconnected devices fuels the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry. SoC design can be found in the following products:
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[November 11, 2024] – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading contract chipmaker, announced today it is suspending production of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips for Chinese customers, effective Monday. This action follows a U.S. Department of Commerce directive to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese companies, pending
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STMicroelectronics has opened a power design and industrialisation centre in Pisa in Italy.
The centre in Pisa Montacchiello includes a test laboratory and was created in collaboration with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa. It aims to have about 40 people working on the design and industrialization