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Published On: November 2020

The Importance Of End-To-End Semiconductor Cluster Ecosystem

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Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash THE END-TO-END SEMICONDUCTOR CLUSTER ECOSYSTEM The semiconductor industry is vital for high-tech advancement. From smartphones to satellites, a small piece of silicon forms the base for millions to trillions of data points. It is why worldwide, the semiconductor industry is a Key Enabling Technology (KET) provider. Semiconductor product development requires various resources to come together. With the growing demand for smart hardware, the need to develop these resources in-house is more critical than ever. In semiconductors, no single country wants to be 100% reliant. Countries are ramping up in-country semiconductor design and manufacturing efforts. The complexity of both the design and the manufacturing aspects of semiconductors makes it a tough business. It takes years and decades to come up with a turnkey ecosystem to drive […]

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The BIG-5 Are Becoming Semiconductor Companies

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Photo by Ä°smail Enes Ayhan on Unsplash THE NEED TO PROCESS DATA Internet usage is growing. Every new user generates a new type of data. The technology companies are always eager to process and understand new consumer behavior. It requires continuous research and development of both the software and the hardware. Software development has advanced in the last two decades. It has kept pace with the need to understand and process data due to the development of software libraries and frameworks. The large amount of data that has generated post-2010 has helped the Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks train networks, and that is now allowing new data to be processed faster and accurately. Hardware is vital in ensuring that the processing of data using

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The Challenges And Way Forward For Computer Architecture In Semiconductor Industry

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Photo by Luan Gjokaj on Unsplash OVERVIEW Computers are designed to provide real-time feedback to all user requests. To enable such real-time feedback, Central Processing Unit (CPU) is vital. CPU is also referred to as processing units or simply processors. These incredibly small semiconductor units are the brain of the computer and are capable of performing Millions/Billions of Instructions Per Second (MIPS/GIPS). High MIPS/GIPS, means faster data processing. A lot of processing goes on inside these processing units. With the advancement of the technology nodes, more processing units are being glued together to form System-On-A-Chip (SoC). These SoCs have different individual units like GPU, DRAM, Neural Engine, Cache, HBM, ASIC accelerators, apart from the CPU itself. It is incredibly difficult to design an SoC that has the best of two important worlds of computer architecture: Power and Performance. Both in academia

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The Status Of Semiconductor Manufacturing In India

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Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash THE SEMICONDUCTOR STATUS IN INDIA In 2020, the semiconductor industry got a lot of attention. From geo-politics to manufacturing advancement to mergers and acquisitions, the semiconductor industry has been all over the news. This showed the world the growing need and dependency on semiconductor technology. This caught attention of the countries that are behind in the semiconductor fabrication, assembly, and testing. Specifically, India, which is a 100% importer of the semiconductor products/devices. A country with 1.3+ Billion people, simply cannot afford to be lagging in the core semiconductor manufacturing technology, which provides the base for several technology products from smartphones to satellites. There has been a push from the government to attract businesses all over the world to set up semiconductor fabrication, assembly, and testing facilities in India, by

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The Semiconductor Industry Shake Up

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Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY STATUS In 2020, the semiconductor industry has seen both negative and positive trends. The first half of 2020 showed mostly the negative trend driven by the COVID-19 restrictions, as it lead to slower semiconductor production and increased inventory due to decreasing sales. The second half of 2020 has been more positive. The sales have gone up and production lines are 100% occupied, to cater the newly launched devices and products by vendors across the globe. Apart from the steady increase in design, development, and production, merger/acquisition have gone up too. There have been some unexpected takeovers which are bound to have a strong impact in the long run. The semiconductor industry from a product point of view can be divided into: CPU GPU SoC/MPSoC/RFSoC ASIC/FPGA/ASSP/ACAP Digital/Analog/Mixed Memory

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