Author: Richard Wallace
Next in Engineering: How chip designers tap Generative AI
Using AI, electronic design automation tools can significantly enhance power efficiency, performance, and chip area—the holy grail of design automation. AI can automate various chip design tasks and the technology can also generate more optimal layouts for integrated circuits, reducing the chip designer’s time and effort required for this process. A research paper released last…
China to build, not buy, AI chips; bypass lithography
Chinese scientists are reportedly considering constructing massive facilities to manufacture the technology necessary to create AI semiconductor chips locally. Under the plan, particle accelerators would replace the role of the…
AI? “I am become death?”
By Richard K Wallace Is Artificial Intelligence at its Oppenheimer-esque “I am become death” phase of evolution, as in : “Artificial intelligence researchers refer to the present moment as an…
Taiwan: Blowin’ in the Wind?
How many ‘Silicon Shields’ will it take to save Taiwan – and the global semiconductor industry – from destruction? The answer is blowing in the wind. Citadel’s founder Ken Griffin…
The Great Energy Harvest: Power From Thin Air
Energy harvesting, the process of tapping into micro-power sources in the environment, now spans a number of ambient sources and “has matured through the use of a variety of environmental…
China’s Chip Makers Feel Bite of Export Controls
Chinese semiconductor makers are feeling the bite of U.S. chip export controls as flocks of foreign nationals depart the country as the industry asses the situation. According to a report on…
Intel picks Vigasio, Italy for factory investment
Vigasio, near Verona, in Italy’s north east region of Veneto will be to the site of Intel’s new European packaging plant according to Reuters. The plant will cost €4.5 billion…
America’s Heartland: The Next Silicon Valley
Steve Case, founder of AOL, predicts the dominance of tech companies on the coasts will give way to a flourishing of startups from smaller cities. https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-silicon-valley-will-be-in-the-us-heartlands/
Technology’s Trainweck: chip, circuit board, and electronic component deficits
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/apple-chip-woes-will-end-but-us-china-supply-chain-war-just-starting-.html Apple chip shortage will end, but U.S.-China supply chain ‘train wreck’ is coming Published Fri, Oct 29 202110:13 AM EDTUpdated Fri, Oct 29 20214:01 PM EDT Eric Rosenbaum@erprose…