Cadence Cuts ConnX Costs

New ConnX 110 and 120 DSP cores upgrade the company’s BBE DSPs and are compatible with the higher-performance ConnX B10 and B20. They target wireless communications, radar, and lidar.
25Jul

MCX Unifies NXP Microcontrollers

NXP is unifying its microcontroller offering with the new MCX family. Although this doesn’t indicate the end of the older families, it will be the focus for new designs that need modern features.
25Jul

Editorial: Nanometer Nonsense

Both leading foundries allowed customers to claim they were using a 4nm process when, in fact, they were using 5nm technology. This situation renders node names meaningless.
25Jul

SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics

SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® SEMICON West was packed as the world’s silicon-birds came back to their migratory path, after two years of various COVID forced lockdowns, in an attempt to regain their bearings on where the industry was
22Jul

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to trend down, slipping to 89 degrees The rate of decline has moderated in the last two weeks following a steep drop in June The sentiment at SEMICON West was positive Equipment
21Jul

Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G

Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G Foldable phones, once thought to be a dream, have become a reality. While flip phones were introduced many years ago as one of the first iterations of expanding cell phone form factors, it wasn’t the screen that folded but more the phone housing and keyboard
21Jul

Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop

Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop Foldable electronics are growing in number but remain a niche market overall. Consumers are interested in the technology but the practicality of using foldable electronics is something that just hasn’t caught on in waves. While foldable smartphones have been
19Jul