Top ten articles in May

Feature articles | May 31, 2023

By Nick Flaherty

This month saw the acquisition of UK analog EDA pioneer Pulsic, along with TSMC coming to Europe for its Technology Symposium.

Cadence buys analog EDA tool pioneer Pulsic

The Symposium gave more detail of TSMC’s plans for 3nm process technology and MRAM for automotive chips for self driving cars, as well as an update on the timescale for a decision on the fab in Dresden and details of Meta’s first AI chip.

TSMC heads for trillion transistor package with 3nm, 2nm

NXP, TSMC bring embedded MRAM to automotive MCUs

3nm AI chips and 6nm microcontrollers will be key to TSMC Dresden fab

NXP, Infineon reported to be in TSMC, Bosch wafer fab team

Bosch tests L4 driverless cars on German roads

Meta details its first custom RISC-V AI silicon

The PCIM show earlier this month also saw a re-writing of a SPICE simulator by industry pioneer Mike Englehardt. This includes digital support alongside analog simulations. Qorvo sees Qspice as a key plank in its growth plans.

Re-writing SPICE for a digital world

Other software also captured a lot of interest, with the vector network analysis tools now running on a Raspberry PI board.

VNA software runs on Raspberry Pi

The latest listing of the top 25 chip companies highlights the changes in the industry, while problems at UK-listed IP supplier Alphawave saw the removal of the chief financial officer.