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What is an ASIC?

CPU chip installed on a computer motherboard

In June 2021, Google replaced millions of Intel’s CPU with home grown chips. This article provides and overview of the new ASIC developed by team Google to help optimizing the performance of YouTube servers. A custom-made ASIC (chip) rather than a general purpose ASIC (CPU), is design specifically by Google

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OSAT – Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test

Figure 1 – OSAT Offering by Application and by Types of Packaging
 
What is OSAT?
 
OSAT stands for Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test. This is a third-party service that suppliers around the world offer, which consists, as the name implies, of semiconductor assembly, packaging and testing of

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Criteria Labs Expands Manufacturer’s Representatives to Better Serve Customers Throughout the United States and Canada

News

Austin, TX.– June 1, 2021—Criteria Labs, an industry leader in high performance RF space components and semiconductor engineering solutions has partnered with Manufacturer’s Representatives to meet the needs of its growing customer base. The firms will support Criteria Labs’ space qualified device, eutectic die attachment, die to shim attachment, chip

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Top 15 Semiconductor Sales Leaders- 2020-2021

market research

IC Insights released its May Update to the 2021 McClean Report last week.  This Update included a discussion of the 1Q21 IC industry market results, an updated quarterly forecast for the remainder of this year, and a look at the top-25 1Q21 semiconductor suppliers. The top-15 1Q21 semiconductor suppliers are covered in this research bulletin.
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RISC-V Functional Safety Processor IP Core Introduced by CAST and Fraunhofer IPMS

press release

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — May 24, 2021 — Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of EMSA5-FS, a fault-tolerant embedded RISC-V processor IP core designed to meet the most stringent functional safety requirements of automotive, airborne, and other safety-critical applications.
 
Developed by Fraunhofer IPMS,

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The CXL Arbitrator & Multiplexer in a Nutshell

Finding solution!

CXL is an aspiring new technology for high bandwidth devices like Accelerators, GPUs etc. In an era where there is growing need of High-Performance Computing (HPC), CXL offers high bandwidth and a low latency connectivity between Host (typically a CPU) and Devices like accelerators, memory expansion devices etc.
 
CXL

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