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MediaTek T830 Accelerates 5G Broadband
To capitalize on growing adoption of 5G cellular for broadband access, MediaTek has boosted the throughput of its fixed-wireless-access chipset.
Lightmatter Connects Chiplets Optically
Lightmatter’s Passage substrate is an active photonic interposer for interconnecting chiplets. All the photonic components and supporting electrical circuits reside in a single multi-reticle piece of silicon.
Nvidia Grace Supports AI Acceleration
To tackle the largest AI models, Nvidia has designed a processor to feed its powerful new Hopper GPU. Grace has twice the memory bandwidth of any x86 processor and can hold GPT-3 in DRAM.
Govt Tech Controls & Chip Slowdown
Govt Tech Controls & Chip Slowdown G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® The Greater Geopolitical Messaging of U.S Government Technology Controls: A few weeks ago the U.S. Government put Export Controls on EDA and Wide Bandgap Substrates. Then they
SemiWEEK: Gelsinger’s Systems Foundry Business Model; Stocks jumped
Semiconductor WEEK: An overview of results and conclusions from recent reports at TechInsights.
Apple M1 Ultra Advanced Packaging
Packaging has become more sophisticated and a differentiator in the overall performance of advanced SoC chipsets. It can significantly impact form factor, helping to miniaturize designs in the multichip package and improve chip-chip RC delay. The Ultra is the first example of a device utilizing InFO-L technology that TechInsights has documented.
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report: DRAM Market in steep decline
Semiconductor sales dipped 6% below 2021 levels last week, as the IC weather cooled 1˚F to Chilly conditions. Zooming in on DRAMs this week, the 13-wk growth MA dropped to -13% Y/Y, falling off last year’s peak of +54% in October.
Exploring Beyond Datasheets: Assessing and Evaluating the Performance of SiC FETs
In this eBook, TechInsights brings you our first analyses of two innovative SiC FETs whose electrical characteristics are assessed with results presented under identical condition. Using a comprehensive array of test conditions and add extra valuable information, we delve into their robustness under stress and go well beyond the datasheet.
Podcast: The State of the Semiconductor Supply Chain
This on-demand podcast brings together Bloomberg Senior Hardware Analyst Woo Jin Ho and TechInsights’ Forecasting Analyst, Taylor St. Germain for an in-depth discussion about the state of the semiconductor supply chain.
Samsung ISOCELL HP1 found in the Motorola Moto X30 Pro
TechInsights has just received the Motorola Moto X30 Pro (XT2241-1) smartphone and launched an analysis on its wide-angle rear camera, confirming the Samsung HP1.
Temperatures are cooling amid rising uncertainty
Temperatures are cooling amid rising uncertainty Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment slipped to 82 degrees The weakness in Memory and Subcon/Adv. Packaging continued to weigh on the overall activity The memory market is now in the
Biren GPGPU Aims for the Clouds
In the data-center accelerator race, the three-year-old startup has burst from the gate with a chiplet-based design that aims to compete with Nvidia for general-purpose-GPU (GPGPU) cloud computing.
Grai Matter Pivots to Floating Point
The startup has made progress on its Grai VIP deep-learning accelerator, changing native processing from INT8 to FP16 and adding audio workloads to its target applications.
Intel PC Processors Move to Chiplets
Meteor Lake will introduce a multidie arrangement using Intel’s silicon-substrate and advanced packaging technologies. This chiplet approach will appear across all PC price tiers beginning late next year.
Gelsinger’s Systems Foundry Business Model
Gelsinger’s Systems Foundry Business Model G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® Gelsinger’s Systems Foundry Business Model: The Foundry/IDM model is dead. Long live the Foundry model. In the beginning, there was the IDM model. The world didn’t call it
SemiWEEK: Workforce Development Needs and New Export Controls; Stocks plummeted
Semiconductor WEEK: An overview of results and conclusions from recent reports at TechInsights.
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
Defending Against Infringement Claims with Patent Invalidation
It doesn’t matter how long your company has been in business or how many patents it holds. Everyone is susceptible of being targeted with a patent infringement claim. How are companies supposed to protect themselves against litigation? The answer is to invalidate the asserting patent.