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Published On: October 2021

The Need To Bring Semiconductor Manufacturing To India

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Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash THE REASONS FOR BUILDING SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN INDIA By 2025, India will be one of the top electronics markets with an expected market size of over $500 Billion. The foundation of this market will be laid by the building blocks of electronics products: the semiconductor chips. However, to cater to such a large market, it is critical to develop an in-country semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, something India lacks. India is already home to all the top semiconductor design houses, still does not have large-scale FAB or OSAT manufacturing facilities. For decades, there has been a push to attract investment to build a semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem in India. However, none of the efforts have materialized. On top of all this, year on year, the cost of […]

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The Impact Of Semiconductor Chiplets On Design And Manufacturing

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Photo by Thomas Jensen on Unsplash THE IMPACT OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPLETS ON DESIGN The process of developing chiplets based silicon chips (mainly XPUs) demands new semiconductor design and manufacturing methods. These methods are not drastically different than what the semiconductor industry developed in the last few decades. Still, the product development steps have to adopt to ensure chiplets are a success in the long run. These changes impact both the semiconductor design and manufacturing stages. Thus, both the design and manufacturing companies need to take a fresh look at how to approach chiplets inspired products so that all such products still meet industry standards without compromising on the quality, Disaggregated: Chiplets demand N number of chiplet to get designed individually, and during the post-manufacturing stage, this N chiplet needs to work

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The In-Memory Semiconductor Processing

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Photo by Patrick Lindenberg on Unsplash THE REASONS TO ADOPT IN-MEMORY SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING Over the last decades, both industry and academia have spent numerous hours to enable different types of semiconductor design and manufacturing methodology to drive next-gen processing units. These processing units today power the computing world and often require billions of ever-shrinking structures. As the data world moves towards more complex workloads coupled with the need for faster and real-time processing, the traditional processing units will not be enough for the computing task. To overcome challenges, the semiconductor industry (mainly companies focused on XPUs) is now adopting new semiconductor design and manufacturing methods for processing units. Chiplets is one such example. In-Memory Processing Combines The Memory Units And Processing Units Into One Single Block And Thus Enabling Faster

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The Semiconductor Industry Needs To Move Towards Multi-Technology-Node Architecture

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Photo by Suganth on Unsplash THE COMPLEXITY OF SINGLE-TECHNOLOGY-NODE ARCHITECTURE To ensure high-speed processing, one active component in a computer system – the Central Processing Unit (CPU) – has seen numerous technological advancements. The CPU advancements have been distributed equally on the design and the manufacturing aspect of the semiconductor development process, both driven by Moore’s law. Design: During the pre-internet era, the CPU used to get designed to handle basic input/output tasks. For such requirements, the data and memory handling were not complicated as it is today, and a single-core/unit of CPU could do the required task. As the world moved towards the digitization brought forward by the post-internet era, the multi-processing solution came to use. The next decade or two saw innovative CPU designs alongside the active components like

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The Semiconductor Development Board Platform

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Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash THE NEED FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVELOPMENT BOARD Semiconductor wafers are fabricated and assembled to produce packaged semiconductor products before it gets shipped to customers. In the production, silicon product then gets mounted onto a system platform. However, before the production line can use a semiconductor product, it needs to undergo several checks, which require a system-level platform called a development board. Development Board is a printed circuit board containing the main semiconductor product to be evaluated along with different support components needed to enable users to capture internal and external features of the target product. Those interested in specific semiconductor products rely on the development board to thoroughly evaluate the capabilities of the silicon. Development board also provide a platform to electronic enthusiast and empowers them with options

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The Ever Changing Semiconductor Computing

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Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash THE FEATURES DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR COMPUTING The computing world is heavily reliant on semiconductor products. To implement target features, it is important to look into the low-level hardware characteristics. These characteristics over the years have become key driving factors and are not defining how future semiconductor-powered computing will be. The features that drive semiconductor computing are well known. These are a perfect combination of technical and business aspects. The business aspect focuses on increasing the margin apart from acquiring new markets and customers. The technical features set the foundation of how the computing system will work. The technical and business feature list is endless, but below few points define how key features drive the semiconductor-powered computing world. PPA: Power, performance, and area are technical features that

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