Hacker News with Generative AI: Semiconductors

Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg (semiengineering.com)
A transformative change is underway for semiconductor design and EDA. New languages, models, and abstractions will need to be created.

Semiconductors, Design, EDA, Software Development, Change Management

172 points by yatrios 2 days ago | 95 comments

Second-largest GPU maker flees China before chip launch to avoid US sanctions (tomshardware.com)

Semiconductors, China, US Politics, Business, Trade

6 points by thunderbong 4 days ago | 0 comments

Qualcomm RISCs, Arm Pulls: The Legal Battle for the Future of Client Computing (thechipletter.substack.com)
“You have to bet the company. Especially right now, it’s like being in the gladiator business: you go in, you prepare, you go to the Colosseum …”

Technology, Legal Disputes, Semiconductors, Computing

54 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 21 comments

TSMC secures $11.6B in funding as CHIPS Act faces uncertain future (ft.com)

Semiconductors, Government Funding, Economy, Taiwan

32 points by joecobb 5 days ago | 4 comments

TSMC to close door on producing advanced AI chips for China from Monday (ft.com)

TSMC, AI, China, Semiconductors, Technology

12 points by JumpCrisscross 11 days ago | 6 comments

$50M semiconductor fraudster pleads guilty to Russian chip-exporting scheme (theregister.com)
The US is moving forward with its prosecution of a man who is accused of illegally shipping semiconductors to sanctioned businesses in Russia after he pleaded guilty to the multi-million-dollar scheme.

Semiconductors, Fraud, Russia, International Trade

10 points by sandwichsphinx 12 days ago | 1 comments

Intel CEO reminds investors it provides TSMC with chipmaking equipment (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Semiconductors, Business

4 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 2 comments

Biden team is racing to get CHIPS Act money out the door (bloomberg.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and GlobalFoundries Inc. have finished negotiating binding agreements for billions of dollars in grants and loans to support US factories, people familiar with the matter said.

Politics, Semiconductors, Business, Manufacturing

12 points by donsupreme 14 days ago | 0 comments

US Government considering cash infusions, AMD merger to help struggling Intel (tomsguide.com)

Technology, Business, Semiconductors, Government

7 points by rockenman1234 15 days ago | 4 comments

U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites (ieee.org)
Last week the organization tasked with running the the biggest chunk of U.S. CHIPS Act’s US $13 billion R&D program made some significant strides: The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) released a strategic plan and selected the sites of two of three planned facilities and released a new strategic plan.

Semiconductors, Government Funding, Technology

177 points by pseudolus 16 days ago | 127 comments

Hacker Fab (hackerfab.org)
Right now we use factories and tools that are optimized to manufacture at scale to do our integrated circuit prototyping. There does not exist a set of machines that enable rapid tape-out of semiconductor devices on a budget, nor are there sufficient resources to make/modify fab tools from the ground up.

Semiconductors, Hardware, Manufacturing, Prototyping, Open Source

441 points by ipnon 16 days ago | 137 comments

Intel layoffs underway as chipmaker aims to cut 15,000 jobs (oregonlive.com)
Layoffs that Intel announced last summer got underway in earnest this week as the company works to cut 15,000 jobs across its business, the biggest downsizing in its five-decade history.

Layoffs, Technology, Business, Intel, Semiconductors

11 points by RyeCombinator 20 days ago | 4 comments

Ultraprecise method of aligning 3D semiconductor chips invented (techxplore.com)
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram.

Semiconductors, 3D Printing, Nanotechnology, Laser Technology, Materials Science

170 points by thebeardisred 20 days ago | 24 comments

The National EUV Accelerator comes to Albany (research.ibm.com)
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that NY CREATES’s Albany NanoTech Complex, where IBM is a key partner, will house the NSTC EUV Accelerator, a key facility that will help secure leading-edge semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing in North America.

Semiconductors, Research, Technology, New York, Government

43 points by sandwichsphinx 21 days ago | 45 comments

Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)

Semiconductors, CPUs, Intel, China

10 points by rbanffy 21 days ago | 2 comments

AMD Q3'2024 Financials (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Both with regards to technology and financials, AMD 0.00%↑ has been on a tear for the last several quarters, and their new Q3 numbers has seen that company continue that trend – with no immediate signs of it stopping. Not only are the Q3 numbers the biggest, but it means the datacenter business is now more than half the company, and Q4 numbers are expected to shatter the ceiling once again.

AMD, Finance, Technology, Semiconductors, Data Centers

43 points by rbanffy 22 days ago | 40 comments

Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)

CPUs, Semiconductors, China, Intel, Performance

10 points by sunkcostisalie 22 days ago | 0 comments

Indian Firms Funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia (tomshardware.com)

Russia, International Relations, Technology, Semiconductors, AI

6 points by doener 23 days ago | 4 comments

Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)

Chips, Semiconductors, CPUs, China, Intel

15 points by rbanffy 23 days ago | 2 comments

Intel invests US$300M in China chip packaging and testing plant (scmp.com)
US semiconductor giant Intel said it would expand its chip packaging and testing base in Chengdu, in a show of commitment to the mainland market despite a recent call by a Beijing-backed cybersecurity group to review the company’s products.

China, Semiconductors, Investments, Technology, Business

6 points by alecco 24 days ago | 0 comments

Wafer Scale – Trilogy Systems: Part 2 (thechipletter.substack.com)
In Part 1 we saw how Trilogy Systems was founded by Gene Amdahl in 1979 and went on to raise over $275m (c$830m in 2024 dollars) in funding to build ‘IBM plug-compatible’ mainframes. In 1983, the company revealed the ‘breakthrough’ technology it would use to overtake IBM: Wafer-Scale Integration. In place of the modules IBM used in its mainframes, each with 100 smaller chips and other components, Trilogy would use complete 2.5-inch silicon wafers.

Technology, History, Computer Hardware, Semiconductors

15 points by klelatti 25 days ago | 1 comments

Trump Attacks Bipartisan Semiconductor Law, a Key Policy Achievement for Biden (nytimes.com)
Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday blasted the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan law aimed at reducing America’s reliance on Asia for semiconductors by providing billions in subsidies to encourage companies to manufacture more chips in the United States.

Politics, Government, Semiconductors, United States

13 points by wumeow 25 days ago | 2 comments

Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S. (tomshardware.com)

Business, Intel, United States, Technology, Semiconductors

35 points by sandwichsphinx 25 days ago | 28 comments

TI expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors (ti.com)
Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced it has begun production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power semiconductors at its factory in Aizu, Japan.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Technology, Texas Instruments, Japan

64 points by sandwichsphinx 27 days ago | 64 comments

TSMC's Arizona Chip Production Yields Surpass Taiwan's (bloomberg.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories back home, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Arizona, Taiwan, Business

31 points by ironyman 28 days ago | 4 comments

Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 (tomshardware.com)

Nvidia, RISC-V, Hardware, Semiconductors, 2024

30 points by ohong 28 days ago | 11 comments

Intel Got Left Behind in the A.I. Chip Boom (nytimes.com)
In 2005, there was no inkling of the artificial intelligence boom that would come years later. But directors at Intel, whose chips served as electronic brains in most computers, faced a decision that might have altered how that transformative technology evolved.

Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors, Business, Technology

3 points by jbredeche 28 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei (bloomberg.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. discovered this month that chips it made for a specific customer ended up with Huawei Technologies Co., a potential violation of US sanctions intended to sever the flow of technology to a Chinese national champion.

Taiwan, Semiconductors, China, International Trade, Sanctions

198 points by teleforce 28 days ago | 121 comments

Qualcomm's V8 License, Cancelled by Arm [video] (youtube.com)

Qualcomm, Arm, Licensing, Semiconductors, Technology

4 points by locusm 28 days ago | 1 comments

Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license (bloomberg.com)
Arm Holdings Plc is canceling a license that allowed longtime partner Qualcomm Inc. to use Arm intellectual property to design chips, escalating a legal dispute over vital smartphone technology.

Arm, Qualcomm, Semiconductors, Licensing, Lawsuits

622 points by necubi 29 days ago | 450 comments