by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News
Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...
by Karl Freund | Aug 23, 2021 | In the News
EDA Leader Synopsys paints path to Software-Designed Si Last year, EDA leader Synopsys announced it had developed an AI chip design instrument called DSO.ai that could produce faster, lower cost, and more power-efficient chips by using an AI to figure out how to best...
by Karl Freund | Aug 14, 2021 | In the News
Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...
by Karl Freund | Dec 14, 2020 | Research Paper
While the global semiconductor industry has matured on many fronts, producing faster, cheaper and more power-efficient devices in vast quantities, lifecycle management for silicon remains lacking. Until now, there has been little thought given to the need for and...
by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...
