Clever title but it’s not mine. PiperJaffray Analysts Auguste Richard and Jennifer Baxter released a report last week which echoed the concerns of others, including myself. The concerns reported are with the 22nm process and...

The first in a series of conversations exploring concepts and best practices for emerging companies starts this Thursday. This is a brilliant idea so congratulations to the person who thought of it. The semiconductor ecosystem...

3860 Synopsys just delivered second quarter 2012 results, with improved revenue on a year-over-year basis. Unfortunately operating expenses are said to be out of control. I’m not a financial guy so for more financial...

3843Rather than fly to Southern California this week I decide to drive. Airport parking and security, flying to Irvine and renting a car, driving to San Diego and back to Irvine, then flying home is just too much. Call it...

3816Since the last Intel Parody logo went over so well here is another one! Not so much a parody in regards to the recent PR from Intel that the fabless model is doomed. As one of the little people inside the fabless...

3775Perhaps the most pertinent comment raised by an analyst at Intel’s Investor Forum last week came from Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Research to Brian Krzanich, the COO and head of global manufacturing and supply chain. He said: “I...

The success of TSMC and Dr Morris Chang himself can be summed up in three words: Business Model Innovation. Other business model innovators include: Dell, Starbucks, Cisco, Ebay, Google, etc…. I would argue that without TSMC...

In the world of sub-40nm IC design, as feature size decreases with each new process node, it becomes increasingly difficult to migrate a layout to a new process technology. Too many factors impact manufacturability and yield....

EDAC has a series of seminars for emerging companies with Jim Hogan. Jim has been in EDA since, like, forever. First at National, then at Cadence, then at Artisan (now ARM) and then as an investor first at Telos (Cadence's VC...

During my last Taiwan trip I also spent time with Global Unichip. Clearly, in order for the semiconductor industry to thrive we must enable design starts. With the rising costs and complexity of semiconductor design and...

Hello colleagues on Semiwiki I'm a newbie here but keen to extend my network out from the UK. I came across this headline reported in EETimes ( Intel exec says fabless model ) and I wondered what everyone else thought about it....