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Thinking Bigger

By Kurt Shuler I am in Shanghai and Xi’an this week for the ICCAD event and numerous customer visits, and have had the opportunity to observe and reflect upon the drivers of change within our industry....

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Where The Wild Things Are…

By Kurt Shuler After spending the past month on the road meeting customers in China, Korea and Europe, I finally had the opportunity to read Maurice Sendak’s excellent children’s book, “Where the Wild...

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Semiconductor Slowdown? Invest!

By Kurt Shuler Samsung’s announcement that it is investing a company-record $42B in 2012 for technology development came as a bit of a shock to many in the financial and technology press. The size of...

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Interchip Connectivity

By Kurt Shuler It may seem strange to link two interchip interface standards to the future of3D integrated circuits, but please bear with me for a few minutes. I hope to prove that the learning from...

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The Three Consequences Of Fewer Design Starts

By Kurt Shuler Gartner’s Feb. 27 report, “Market Trends: Worldwide, ASIC and ASSP Design Starts Continue Declining Trend, 2012,” by analysts Bryan Lewis and Ganesh Ramamoorthy, gives all of us insight...

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Server Processor War Heats Up

By Kurt Shuler Yesterday’s announcement that Intel will acquire Cray’s interconnect hardware program, including IP and 74 employees, is the latest salvo in the race to develop commercially viable...

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What’s On TV?

By Kurt Shuler Could Apple TV revive the digital TV (DTV) market? That was the underlying question behind a trio of presentations given at yesterday’s Gartner Semiconductor Briefing at in San Jose....

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Who Calls The Shots?

By Kurt Shuler Who REALLY calls the shots in chip design today? That sounds like a stupid question. Who really calls the shots in chip design today? Well, chip designers of course. But you’re wrong if...

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From Hype To Reality

By Kurt Shuler My purpose in this article is to explain Gartner Research’s Hype Cycle and relate it to the Technology Adoption Lifecycle popularized by Geoffrey Moore’s book, “Crossing the Chasm.”...

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SMP, Asymmetric Multi- processing And The HSA Foundation

When we hear the term “multiprocessing,” we often associate it with “symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).” This is because of SMP’s initial prevalence in the high-performance computing world, and now in...

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Investments In EDA Stocks Offer Good Returns

Gabe Moretti I have heard multiple times that once an EDA company goes public almost always the new investors do not experience the growth in the share price that other companies in the electronics...

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Blog Review – Dec 02

By Caroline Hayes, senior editor While everyone else hits the shops, one blogger want to see presents fall from the sky. This week there is also a sleek design project, new uses for SoCs, an Arduino...

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Research Review – November 08

By Caroline Hayes, Senior Editor Peregrine Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries create an RF SOI roadmap; Imec demonstrates an alternative FinFET and a metamaterial harvests energy wirelessly. Peregrine...

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Blame It on the Automobile

By Dave Bursky, Technology Editor Major ARM TechCon keynotes focus on societal shifts, defining IoT and little data’s big impact. ARM CEO Simon Segars At the recently held ARM TechCon, a keynote...

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System Integration Requires a Shared Viewpoint

By John Blyler Qualcomm uses Dassault Systemes’ dashboarding tool in its Hexagon DSP chip to incorporate multiple design metrics from key EDA tools. The EDA tool market has longed talked about its need...

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A Different View On Intel

Gabe Moretti, Contributing Editor I have been following Daniel Nenni’s articles about Intel lately.  I am surprised at the level of negative analysis contained in his blogs about this company.  I have...

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Gabe Moretti, Contributing Editor One of the conclusions that can be reached from the contents of the 2014 forecasts I collected for Chip Design (see...

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Starting A New EDA Company

Gabe Moretti, Contributing Editor Every once in a while the topic of what the EDA industry should be resurfaces.  In the last few weeks I have read ideas from Rick Carlson, Joe Costello and Chris...

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Blog Review – March 03 2014

Cadence’s Brian Fuller admits to some skullduggery in reducing last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona down to a single theme of IP, but his blog makes a good case for why IP is the answer to...

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Are Wearables Restricted to Fitness and Health?

By John Blyler, Chief Content Officier Wearables have secured a base in the fitness and health markets but growth is linked to associated technologies, related industries and emerging applications....

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