Wednesday at DAC started off in usual fashion with a keynote. For the third day, the focus of the talk was the IoT and how significant the change is going to be. Full article: Brian Bailey
AUSTIN, Texas — It’s been two years since China announced a huge capital investment intended to kick-start an indigenous semiconductor industry. China’s ambitious “National IC Industry Development Outline” spells out a mission to build up a semiconductor industry that will eventually become self-sufficient. Full article: Junko Yoshida
Accellera got everyone out of bed early this morning to talk about the just announced early access release of Portable Stimulus. The panel was made up with people from user companies. Full article: Brian Bailey
AUSTIN, Texas—When Siemens AG agreed last November to buy Mentor Graphics Corp. for $4.5 billion, it wasn't the first time that the German conglomerate had entertained the idea of swallowing the Portland, Ore.-based EDA software vendor. Full article: Dylan McGrath
The 54th DAC got started today in a very steamy Austin. While we may be a maturing industry, there is certainly no indications that the people within the industry have given up or intend to take it easy. Full article: Brian Bailey
AUSTIN, Texas — C-Sky Microelectronics Co., designer of China’s home-grown 32-bit embedded CPU processing cores, is quite possibly China’s best kept secret. Full article: Junko Yoshida
Joe Costello, former Cadence Design Systems CEO and current head of buildings-management device startup Enlighted, told attendees at DAC this week they could expect to see a burgeoning of chip designs driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). But the explosion will be followed by a brutal consolidation in each sector. Full article: Chris Edwards
DAC is coming, next week, in beautiful downtown Austin at the Convention Center. I’ll be there Monday and Tuesday, running around the exhibit area. If you haven’t yet got your plane and hotel tickets, drop everything and start looking. I’m guessing this will be as popular as it always is, especially given the venue. Full article: Bernard Murphy
With the premier conference for semiconductor design enablement just around the corner I would like to take this time and space to talk about what is really happening at the #54DAC and that would be the parties! Full article: Daniel Nenni
Lucio Lanza believes that billions of things, once connected, will eventually embody intelligence. The notion makes us feel a little uneasy. Fast-paced technology advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already taking us places unknown to us just a decade ago. Full article: Junko Yoshida