Silicon Insights - September 2019

Volume 9.0 |September 2019

Silicon Insights

Recent Announcement

HCL Technologies To Acquire SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR To Enhance Leadership In The Semiconductors And Industrial IoT Spaces

NOIDA, India – September 09, 2019 – HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced the acquisition of Sankalp Semiconductor (Sankalp), an advanced technology design services provider offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions from concept to prototype, in the semiconductor space. Read More...

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Silicon Everywhere

One of the major transformations the semiconductor

industry is witnessing is the explosion of new applications requiring custom semiconductor solution. Besides the traditional chip requirements, new growth areas like Artificial Intelligence, Big data and 5G have emerged. These newer applications are at the leading

edge of the technology spectrum. On the other end of the spectrum are the applications that either requires

relatively older process technology usually since they provide the best price-performance in the chosen

technology node. Read More ...

View Point

Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

I t has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. But with a big injection of open source spirit from its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM is finally taking the next step and open sourcing the instruction set architecture of its Power family of processors.

Big Blue is also moving the OpenPower Foundation, which it formed with Google, Mellanox Technologies, Nvidia, and Tyan to help create an ecosystem around the Power architecture six years ago this month , under the administrative control of the Linux Foundation. (Considering how many open source projects are under the control of the Linux Foundation, perhaps it is time for that organization to consider a name change. Read More...

Industry Showcase

Tools for Predicting Semiconductor Trends

In the days of germanium and silicon discrete transistors, companies like TI could use the learning curve, for example, to predict what the unit cost would be after 100,000 units were produced, based upon the actual cost per unit of the first 1,000 units produced. They could then price the particular transistor product at a loss initially to gain leading market share and therefore achieve higher profitability and market influence when they reached future high unit volume sales. Read More. .

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Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Palo Alto, California & Hubli, India with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany, Malaysia and Japan.

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