Long gone are the days when all semiconductor chips were designed and manufactured by semiconductor foundries. Today’s chip customers can submit their own designs, and foundries can tape them out into custom, “application-specific ICs” (ASICs) specifically targeting unique applications.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s ”Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors” (CHIPS) and Science Act for America Fund, a $50 billion investment to catalyze long-term growth in the domestic semiconductor industry in support of our national and economic security, was signed into law earlier this year. Continue reading “Beyond Silicon: $50 Billion CHIPS for America Program Stimulates Innovation”
A recently released study from the Wilson Research Group reports that nearly a quarter of ASIC and FPGA chip designs during 2020 tapped open-source RISC-V technology, flagging it as one of the top trends in compute.
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