You must have seen some brightly coloured lines and diagrams in VLSI chip design; have you ever wondered what they are?.. Actually, these colourful lines are what we call a stick diagram and depict the chip’s transistor and interconnection layout.…
As the nation of India eyes the 38th VLSI conference, chip designer Marvell spotlights the country’s growth in the semiconductor world, showcasing the impactful role of AI in the sector and the number of startup opportunities it has the potential…
The semiconductor industry in China finds itself in danger as 2024 comes to a close with nearly 14,000 comapanies shut down. On one hand, thousands of companies have shut down; on the other hand, a significant number of new companies…
In a recent move from Tata , Tata Electronics has collaborated with Japan based Tokyo Electron Limited to purchase equipments and services for its semiconductor fab.
While the whole world is struggling to get Nvidia GPUs, Microsoft, the world’s 2nd most valuable company by market cap, is struggling with another problem of getting sufficient power to use its Nvidia Hopper GPUs. According to a recent news…
T-Hub, India’s largest innovation hub and business incubator, has recently selected seven startups across various sectors to join their cohort of semiconductor programs. This initiative aims to strengthen India’s position in the semiconductor industry. All these selected startups will now…
Before Trump takes charge on January 20, the Biden-Harris Administration wants to complete some of its major plans. One such plan is to make the U.S. self-dependent in terms of semiconductor manufacturing. In that pursuit only, last Friday, the U.S. Department…
The US Government has decided to provide $406 million subsidy to GlobalWafers, a Taiwanese tech manufacturing company that happens to be the world’s third-largest silicon wafer supplier. This is another significant step taken by the US to strengthen its grip…
According to a recent study from the Wi-Fi Alliance, more than 9 billion Wi-Fi devices, including personal computers, smartphones, televisions, tablets, sensors, and so on, are currently in use worldwide. WiFi’s throughput requirement keeps increasing due to the emergence of…
Assessing materials at deeper levels with enhanced resolution is essential in areas like high-energy physics, quantum materials, nuclear energy production, biomedical diagnostics, and aviation. Conventional techniques, such as radiographic (X-ray) testing, offer high resolution but struggle with penetration in solid…
On December 3 China imposed a ban on exporting some very crucial “dual-use” minerals to the United States of America. Beijing decided to halt the export of the minerals- Gallium, Germanium and Antimony that have widespread military uses, escalating trade…
In 2019, when Apple had acquired Intel’s smartphone modem chip business for $1 billion, almost everywhere there were rumours that Apple was aiming for self-sufficiency in smartphone chip production. 5 years later, it seems that finally, it is happening. According…
2024 might be nearing its end with December kicking in, but the wave of layoffs in big tech companies seems unstoppable. The trend of layoffs, which started in 2022, continued heavily in 2023 in the name of company restructuring and…
According to a recent TechNews report, TSMC revealed to the U.S. Department of Commerce that production of 2nm chips could kick off in the Arizona plant as early as 2028.
In modern electronics, silicon is the fundamental thing, silicon transistors are responsible in switching signals and amplification in devices ranging from smartphones to automobiles. But , silicon semiconductor technology faces a fundamental physical problem , it does not allow transistors…
Since the very inception of Moore’s law in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, the whole semiconductor industry has been about shrinking the size of transistors. The world saw its very first chipset milestone in 1971, the Intel 4004,…
According to a recent report from MoneyControl, Apple has partnered with 40+ Indian companies to supply components for their products being manufactured in India. To name a few, the list includes companies like Dixon Technologies, Amber Electronics, HCLTech, Wipro, and…
The global semiconductor foundry capacity has seen unprecedented growth over the past five years. From a capacity of 2,828.53 thousand wafer starts per month (kWSPM) at the end of 2019 to 3,993.27 kWSPM by the second quarter of 2024, the…
China’s semiconductor industry is undergoing a major transformation as over 22,000 semiconductor companies shut down between 2019 and 2023. The closures are a direct consequence of stringent U.S. sanctions, which have stifled China’s access to advanced chip technologies, impacting industries…
Memories have always been critical components contributing to any device’s performance. With increasing heavy memory consuming applications , RAMS role has increased significantly. Computer memory, also known as RAM (random access/read-write device) and often simply memory, uses random orders to…