Grab your jackets! It's going to be a cold Spring! (March Update) Shereen Vaux Order activity for semiconductor equipment slipped to a chilly 45°. There were some notable changes made to our forecasts this month. The February data are in from the Taiwanese companies, and it is clear sales are

Sustainability Panel at SPIE ALP G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® Sustainability Panel at SPIE ALP: Why me? Which was my first question when they asked me to run this panel. As you know, until recently, I have considered sustainability to be a “boy scout” issue: something nice to do, but unlikely

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This webinar reviews the existing industry fast charging techniques used by Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi in their recent flagship smartphones. It was observed that these smartphones benefit from adaptive charging algorithms to suppress battery degradation, which would generally result from the high applied current.

Packaging technology goes hand in hand with chiplets. Examples include basic PCB-based 2D structures, passive silicon interposers and bridges for 2.5D packages, 3D packages employing active interposers, and hybrid bonding.

Generative-AI models such as ChatGPT are typically large and run only in the cloud, but Qualcomm recently demonstrated a smaller image-generation model called Stable Diffusion performing inference on a smartphone.

The new Ceva XC20 architecture implements simultaneous multithreading in a vector DSP. The first product to use it, the XC22 more than doubles area efficiency compared with Ceva’s previous DSP cores.

25th Anniversary Issue of The Chip Insider. Why China will fail. G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® 25 Years Ago Today, I started a new e-mailing to subscribers to address the increasing need for instantaneous analysis of events in a time when market research and news came on paper. It took weeks

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It’s cold out there as we head into Spring Shereen Vaux Order activity for semiconductor equipment slipped a degree to a brisk 45 degrees All segments remain at temperate temperatures, with the exception for Memory which remains at freezing levels Order activity is covered in a blanket of fog as we