Industry

Synopsys Increases Designs For Multi-Die With HBM3 IP and Verification Solutions, First for Industry

Today sees the announcement from Synopsys, Inc., over their newest technology and solutions for chip designers. As an industry first, the company has released their newest HBM3 IP solutions, consisting of PHY, controller and IP for verification of 2.5D multi-die packages. This technology will further increase the development of minimal power and high-bandwidth specifications for …

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Intel (INTC) Reportedly Offers Over $2 Billion To Acquire the Fabless Semiconductor SiFive as the Consolidation Trend in the Industry Is Nowhere Close to Slowing Down

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), the semiconductor behemoth at the heart of a concerted push by the US to re-shore chip fabrication, seems to be looking to expand its product portfolio. As an illustration, according to Bloomberg, Intel has reportedly offered over $2 billion to acquire the fabless semiconductor SiFive, a provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and …

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Fab Subsidies Haven’t Landed For Intel Yet, Confirm Multiple US Government Offices, Semiconductor Industry Association

The Robert N. Boyce Building in Santa Clara, California, is the world headquarters for Intel Corporation. This photo is from Jan. 23, 2019. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation) Claims have been made that Intel is set to recieve “staggeringly large” subsidies to the tune of 10 digits to build semiconductor fabs in the US as the …

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Michel Ancel Retires from the Industry; WiLD, Beyond Good and Evil 2 Development to Continue

Michel Ancel, an industry veteran known as the creator of the Rayman franchise as well as the creative force behind 2003’s Beyond Good and Evil, announced on Instagram that he is retiring from game development. However, he confirmed that both WiLD and Beyond Good and Evil 2 are doing well with their respective teams. Today …

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Games Industry to Surpass 3 Billion Users and $200 Billion in Revenue by 2023

The games industry is set on a continuous course for growth, according to the latest 2020 Global Games Market Report released today by Newzoo. By the end of the year, the research firm reckons there’ll be 2.7 billion gamers globally, with the number set to surpass the three billion threshold in 2023. That amounts to …

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TSM) in Increasing Its U.S. Footprint as Part of a Concerted Trump Administration Campaign to Bring the Industry Home

The semiconductor industry forms the bedrock of a technology-driven global economy. Given the deteriorating U.S. – China relations and the attendant vulnerability of a dispersed semiconductor supply chain, the Trump administration has been pushing for American chipmakers – or even those that employ American technology – to move much of their fabrication to the U.S. …

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Bill Gates-Backed Solar Startup Aims to Replace Fossil Fuels in Heavy Industry

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the most difficult problems facing first-world countries as they search for more environmentally sustainable manufacturing methods is the issue of fossil fuel use in heavy industry. According to a Bill Gates-backed startup, Heliogen, it’s solved a major problem …

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Research Suggests 73% of Games Industry Decision Makers Are Expanding Investment in AI

Virtuos, the Singaporean game developer and content production company, may not be exceedingly known to the public of gamers. Despite that, they’ve actually helped develop several of the best games released in recent years, including but not limited to The Last of Us, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Injustice: Gods Among Us, L.A. Noire, Battlefield V, Shadow …

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Steam Digital Resale Ruling “Flies in the Face” of EU Law Says Industry Trade Association

Last week, a French court handed down a ruling that has the potential to radically alter the way we buy and play video games and other digital media. Basically, the District Court of Paris struck down several sections of the Steam user agreement, most notably the part that states that Valve is only selling people …

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Monster Hunter World Director Sees Future Of The Industry As “Platform-Agnostic”

The next-generation consoles will be released in around one year, but one of the Monster Hunter World directors sees the future of the industry going beyond the now classic console war between PlayStation and Xbox. Speaking with Eurogamer, Monster Hunter World Kaname Fujioka talked about the next generation consoles and the future of the industry …

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