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More than 180 billion Arm chips have shipped

During its third fiscal quarter of 2020, Arm and its silicon partners shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, resulting in a total of more than 180 billion Arm chips having now shipped.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 11, 2021Feb. 11, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Chip industry snapshot: record sales, production shortfalls

Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5 percent while the U.S. share dropped precipitously last year, according to a report recently released by the Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 4, 2021Feb. 4, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Meet software dev’s latest crush: Kubernetes

A recent survey reports that the vast majority of software development teams expect to use microservices and containers in 2021, to advance the speed, efficiency, and flexibility of their software development tools and applications.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 1, 2021Feb. 1, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Raspberry Pi Foundation bakes its own chip

The hacker-friendly Raspberry Pi foundation has cooked up its own, homegrown silicon: the RP2040 SoC. What’s more, the company is selling a tiny, $4 “Raspberry Pi Pico” module based on the new chip, aimed at DIYers and gizmo developers.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 27, 2021Jan. 27, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Popular apps go native on Apple Silicon

Zoom, Microsoft, Google, Linux, and popular Open Source apps such as VLC have recently debuted native support for Apple Silicon (aka M1).
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 24, 2021Jan. 25, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Semiconductor market stays strong despite Covid

The worldwide semiconductor market grew by 7.3 percent to $450 billion in 2020, following a 12 percent decline in 2019, says Gartner.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 19, 2021Jan. 19, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Chips on top at CES 2021

On the heels of a slew of exciting CES 2021 IC news, TSMC, the world’s top contract IC maker, says it plans to grow its capital investments nearly 50 percent in 2021 to a whopping $28 billion, due to exploding demand for “advanced chips.”
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 18, 2021Jan. 19, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Is 2021 the year of the Chiplet?

Faced with an inevitable slow-down of Moore’s Law progress, silicon vendors are turning to chip architecture innovation as a way to reduce the cost and complexity of creating increasingly powerful processors for emerging AI, Cloud, Edge, HPC, and graphics applications.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 8, 2021Jan. 9, 2021Categories Uncategorized

U.S. chip industry gets a DARPA boost

A U.S. Defense Department “Electronics Resurgence Initiative” project is partnering with several U.S. IC design and manufacturing companies — and promoting Open Source — in an effort to advance the U.S. semiconductor industry.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 5, 2021Jan. 6, 2021Categories Uncategorized

Chip IP leader Arm plots its next 30 years

Apple’s very public move this year to design its own silicon for new products sent shockwaves rippling through the semiconductor industry.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Dec. 30, 2020Dec. 30, 2020Categories Uncategorized

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