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Samsung’s time atop the semiconductor market was short-lived. The company managed to overtake Intel as the market leader in 2017, but according to an IC Insights report published earlier this week, the processor-maker has retaken its throne even though its worldwide sales actually declined between 2018 and 2019.
Source: IC Insights Confirms Intel’s Retaking of the Semiconductor Throne | Tom’s Hardware
Supercomputing 19 (SC’19) has been in full swing this week, and AMD has made a number of high profile announcements at the event. There are new deals for Epyc with the EU and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Amazon is planning to deliver Rome-based cloud computing instances, a pair of Microsoft Azure instances intended for HPC workloads are now available in preview mode, and a new version of ROCm, AMD’s Radeon Open Compute initiative, will roll out soon.
Source: AMD Promises New Architecture for Zen 3, Adopts Intel Tick-Tock Model
Intel made some significant announcements at Supercomputing 19 on Sunday, including new details on its Xe GPU architecture and a programming model it calls oneAPI. Both products are critical to the company’s future plans; Xe represents Intel’s first-ever push into data center GPUs and its first discrete GPU in nearly a decade.
Source: SC19: Intel Unveils New GPU Stack, oneAPI Development Effort
IIn 2016 we published our book “Prototypical: The Emergence of FPGA-Based Prototyping for SoC Design” which began an incredible journey through ASIC prototyping. While we are working on an update to that book there is some recent Prototyping news that is worthy of praise.
Source: S2C Delivers FPGA Prototyping Solutions with the Industry’s Highest Capacity FPGA from Intel!
Image Removed Good end to a weak fiscal year- and end to down cycle As expected and well telegraphed by TSMC, LRCX, ASML & KLAC, AMAT put up a good quarter and guide as the last to report that the industry has turned the corner on the down cycle.
Back in March Patently Apple posted a report titled “Apple’s A-Chip Mastermind has Reportedly left Apple.” The report noted that “Apple’s Senior Director in Platform Architecture responsible for SOC and CPU development Gerard Williams III has departed from the company last month.” That same month NUVIA was established and we’re only hearing about it today.
When I first started working with the foundries 25 years ago I would have never imagined that I would make a career out of it, which I most certainly have. Fortunately, I recognized early on that not only are the foundries the cornerstone of the semiconductor ecosystem, they are also a very important economic bellwether,… Read More
Image Removed We covered the ASIC business in Chapter 2 of our book “ Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry ” using VLSI Technology and eSilicon as shining examples. Neither of which now exist. The ASIC business model was a critical steppingstone in the transformation of the semiconductor industry.
Source: Is the ASIC Business Dead?
I A 3 way Chip Relationship Competing for Wafers, Moore’s Law & Love Who’s Competing with Whom? All’s Fair The 3 way relationship is more complex than it seems.
Source: AMD & Intel & TSMC – “Menage a trois” – The trouble with trouples