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The Semiconductor Supernodes Era

DALL·E What Are Supernodes Supernodes are tightly integrated compute domains that combine multiple accelerators into a single, coherent processing unit. Unlike traditional clusters of servers, they operate as one logical system with shared memory, timing, and synchronization. This eliminates the overhead of networking layers, enabling near-instantaneous data

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The Semiconductor Scaling And The Growing Energy Demand

DALL·E The rapid progress of semiconductor technology is built on a simple principle: by scaling transistors down, more components can be packed into a chip, resulting in higher performance. Over the past half‑century, this strategy has delivered exponential growth in computing power, but it has also unleashed

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The Semiconductor Dual Edge Of Design And Manufacturing

DALL·E Semiconductor leadership comes from the lockstep of two strengths: brilliant design and reliable, high-scale manufacturing. Countries that have both move faster from intent to silicon, learn directly from yield and test data, and steer global computing roadmaps. Countries with only one side stay dependent, either on

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The Semiconductor Risk And Cost Of Deploying LLMs

DALL·E Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping industries, and semiconductors are no exception. From generating RTL code and optimizing verification scripts to guiding recipe tuning in fabs, these models promise efficiency and scale. Yet the adoption of LLMs comes with risks and costs that semiconductor leaders

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The Semiconductor Data Theft Driving A Trillion-Dollar Risk

DALL·E Semiconductor And Theft The global semiconductor industry is under growing pressure, not only to innovate, but to protect what it builds long before a chip ever reaches the fab. As the design-to-manufacture lifecycle becomes increasingly cloud-based, collaborative, and globalized, a critical vulnerability has emerged: the theft

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The Benefits Of Digital Twins For Semiconductor Product Development

DALL·E The semiconductor industry is at a turning point. For decades, progress followed a well-defined path: scale transistors, shrink nodes, and watch performance and efficiency improve. However, as I discussed in The Role of Simulation in Semiconductor Product Development, this formula alone is no longer sufficient. Physical

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The Convergence Of Chiplets And AI In Semiconductor Design

4o The semiconductor industry is at an inflection point. For decades, the trajectory of Moore’s Law provided a predictable path forward: smaller transistors, higher performance, and lower costs. But as I discussed in The More Than Moore Semiconductor Roadmap, shrinking nodes alone can no longer sustain the

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The Rise Of AI Co-Creativity In Semiconductor Productization

4o AI As A Creative Partner In Chip Design Chip design has always been a demanding discipline, requiring engineers to balance performance, power, and area across endless iterations. Traditionally, much of this work has been manual and time-consuming. With the rise of large language models, engineers now

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The Post-Moore Semiconductor Computing Shift With Data And Yield At The Core

4o The semiconductor industry is at a turning point. For decades, Moore’s Law offered a clear roadmap for progress: double the transistor count, boost performance, and drive costs down. That predictability is fading as both computing and semiconductor industry approaches physical and economic limits, forcing engineers, designers,

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The Semiconductor Data Gravity Problem

4o What Is Data Gravity And Why It Matters In Semiconductors The term “data gravity” originated in cloud computing to describe a simple but powerful phenomenon: as data accumulates in one location, it becomes harder to move, and instead, applications, services, and compute resources are pulled toward

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Chetan Arvind Patil

Chetan Arvind Patil

                Hi, I am Chetan Arvind Patil (chay-tun – how to pronounce), a semiconductor professional whose job is turning data into products for the semiconductor industry that powers billions of devices around the world. And while I like what I do, I also enjoy biking, working on few ideas, apart from writing, and talking about interesting developments in hardware, software, semiconductor and technology.

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