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The Status Of Semiconductor Ecosystem In India

DALL-E Semiconductor And India In 2020, I wrote an article titled “The Status Of Semiconductor Manufacturing In India,” focusing on the status of India’s semiconductor ecosystem at the time. Since then, India has seen substantial developments and strategic shifts toward establishing a self-reliant semiconductor ecosystem. India’s journey

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The Semiconductor Is Running The World

DALL-E Semiconductors In Everyday Life The dominance of semiconductor giants like NVIDIA, with a market capitalization exceeding $3 trillion, and TSMC, valued at nearly $700 billion, among the top 10 largest companies globally, underscores the seismic shift towards a semiconductor-driven economy. These (and many other) firms, pivotal

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The Semiconductor AI SoC Company List

DALL-E The World Of AI SoC Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a cornerstone in the rapidly evolving computing technology landscape, driving innovation across various sectors. At the core of AI’s transformative power are specialized silicon chips, AI Systems on Chips (SoCs), designed to process AI algorithms

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The Different Skills And Responsibilities Of A Semiconductor Validation Engineer

DALL-E Post-Tape Out Validation Types The post-silicon tape-out phase in semiconductor product development involves rigorous testing to ensure that the manufactured devices meet their intended specifications and perform reliably in real-world applications. This phase is critical because it represents the first opportunity to evaluate the physical samples

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The Race For Semiconductor Custom Chip Is Only Getting Started

DALL-E What Are Semiconductor Custom Chip Semiconductor custom chips, also known as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), represent a specialized category of electronic components designed to perform specific functions or tasks within electronic devices. Unlike general-purpose chips that can run a wide range of applications, custom chips are

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The Essential Skills For Mastery In Computational Lithography

DALL-E Students And Computational Lithography I recently wrote about computational lithography. Several students asked, apart from mathematics skills, what more is required to align educational training so one has a better chance of joining semiconductors as a computational lithography engineer.  I thought a lot about this, and outlined

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The AI Centers And Implications On Semiconductor Industry

DALL-E Data To AI Centers Data centers have been essential for storing, managing, and processing data for several decades. However, we are now on the brink of a new era of technology, and a significant shift is imminent. Traditional data centers will be replaced by AI Centers,

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The Student Guide To Match Semiconductor Skills With Functions

DALL-E Semiconductor, Students, Functions And Skills In the last blog post, I wrote about a guide students can use to select a major with a focus of joining the semiconductor industry as an engineer. As an extension to that blog, I am now writing about another guide that

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The Semiconductor Major Selection Guide For Undergraduate In India

The Semiconductor Major Selection Guide For Undergraduate In India

DALL-E India And Semiconductor Talent I have been getting a lot of emails and messages (on social media) regarding how a student (mainly in India) can wisely decide which specific undergraduate engineering majors to select to ensure the coursework-based training aligns with the semiconductor industry’s requirements. Thus,

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The Semiconductor Coal

DALL-E The research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has unveiled a novel use of coal in microelectronics. It leads to the question of whether coal (a resource that is widely available

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Chetan Arvind Patil

Chetan Arvind Patil

                Hi, I am Chetan Arvind Patil (chay-tun – how to pronounce), a semiconductor professional whose job is turning data into products for the semiconductor industry that powers billions of devices around the world. And while I like what I do, I also enjoy biking, working on few ideas, apart from writing, and talking about interesting developments in hardware, software, semiconductor and technology.

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