MacTech

Apple scoops up IC Mask Design for semiconductor improvement

As noted by AppleInsider, according to the European Union’s list of acquisitions by firms it classes as gatekeepers, Apple has acquired IC Mask Design. Under the Digital Markets Act, Apple is required ...
Digi Times

IC Design White Paper (4): China has become the largest source of chip design talents

When analyzing the supply and demand of global semiconductor design talents in 2021, one finds US-based companies to be the main source of chip design demand. US-based companies accounted for 43% of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Let’s Do The (IC Design) Time Warp Again

For the most part, we’ve all been doing integrated circuit (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) layout the same way for decades. Designers put together the design, be it intellectual property (IP), block, or ...
Digi Times

IC Design White Paper - Discussing strengths and weaknesses of Taiwan's IC design sector

The strengths of Taiwan's IC design sector include excellent and dedicated STEM talent, a complete semiconductor industry ecosystem from upstream to downstream, and a well-developed downstream ICT ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An LLM-based Agentic Framework For Photonic IC Design Automation (U. of Toronto, Max Planck, MIT Et Al.)

A new technical paper titled “AI Agents for Photonic Integrated Circuit Design Automation” was published by researchers at the University of Toronto, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, ...