EDACafe Editorial 
Coby Hanoch
Coby joined Weebit Nano, a company developing ReRAM memory technology, as CEO in 2017. Coby has 15 years of experience in engineering and engineering management and 23 years in sales management and executive roles. Coby was Vice President Worldwide Sales at Verisity where he was part of the … More » EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Weebit Nano Ltd.January 7th, 2019 by Coby Hanoch
New applications, led by Artificial Intelligence, are leading the quest for new types of memories, post Von-Neumann. They require huge memories which are fast and need to also use a lot less power. But more than that – these memories need to be intelligent and able to do a lot more than just store, read and write data. They need to perform smart searches and pattern-matching internally. They need to be distributed among many compute elements and merged into them. These new architectures require new types of memories, including the fast-growing Emerging Non-Volatile Memories. AI and ML Create Exciting but Challenging 2019 OutlookJanuary 3rd, 2019 by Wally Rhines
Much of this is due to the softening memory market. Memory was the key driver for the spectacular semiconductor revenue growth in 2017 and early 2018. But, as more capacity came online, memory prices peaked in the first quarter of 2018, with the current forecast for memory ASP (average selling price) for the 4th quarter of 2018 slightly above Q4 2017. Fortunately, emerging trends in semiconductor design offer promising areas of growth in 2019. Specifically, the continuing ramp of next-generation technologies, fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML). EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Request for SubmissionDecember 19th, 2018 by Sanjay Gangal
ATTENTION ALL VENDORS AND TECHNOLOGISTS! Please send me (sanjay@edacafe.com) your industry predictions for 2019 by January 7th for inclusion in an editorial to be published in January. Please keep your submission to 100-500 words, with author’s name, email address, photo and short bio. The editorial will be included in the EDAWeekly e-Magazine sent to our 40,000 subscribers. Do have a safe and wonderful holiday season and look forward to hearing from you in or before the New Year! Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Request for Submission The Future: Eighteen for ’18 and beyondDecember 31st, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
1) Autonomous vehicles will rule the roads, after the requisite number of high-profile crashes. 2) Electric vehicles will shut down the power grid, precipitating wholesale revolt from those who cleave to their combustion engines. 3) Problems with returning online purchases will move legions of shoppers back to brick and mortar retail. 4) The piles of stuff due to #3 will continue to grow, further increasing the National Crisis of Clutter. Runtime: New phase ushered in by Altair acquisitionDecember 28th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
***************** Andrea Casotto: Since we were sold to Altair in September, the company actually went IPO in October, so things are going very well. There is a lot of positive change coming, so I am very optimistic. WWJD: What will those changes include? Andrea Casotto: The number one change as we merge into Altair, is contact with their team, their shareholders and, of course, their sales people. We also expect more resources to be available to us, and to be able to tap into more expertise through Altair. Read the rest of Runtime: New phase ushered in by Altair acquisition Verific: Sowing good, Reaping greatDecember 21st, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
In fact, according to Rick Carlson, Verific VP of Worldwide Sales, he’s more astonished with each passing day just how many places applications developed on top of Verific can be found. Not because he doubts the quality of the product, but because of the wide diversity of industries who are now developing chips. Rick Carlson also knows a thing or two about building collegiality between the companies that constitute the EDA industry. He was one of the founders of the EDA Consortium 30 years ago, and the Phil Kaufman Award. We spoke at length last month. The Future: EDA Hiring faces HeadwindsDecember 14th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
“These job requirements are so specific,” I said when he picked up, “surely there can’t be more than a few dozen people who fill the bill. How do you ever find them?” Mark laughed: “You’re right. There are so few matches for these companies, given their job requirements and the correct combination of skills they’re looking for. For me to fill one position, I can look at several thousand resumes. And each resume is incredibly comprehensive. “But I’m looking for the one guy that has this and that skill, but not the other. Yet there are very few people who have those qualifications.” Cadence: The Best of TimesNovember 30th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
And all of that even before the corporate cataclysm of 2008. Few at the company in the fall of that year may have noticed the economy teetering on a cliff, because they were too busy tracking unbelievable developments within their own firewall. On October 15, 2008, a thorough house-cleaning gutted the executive suite: The CEO, all EVPs, and a smattering of others were out, leaving the company leaderless and without an apparent rudder. Instantly the company stock tanked and more than a dozen shareholder lawsuits erupted from that special place from whence such things spring as spontaneously as lawyers after an ambulance. Into this chaos stepped Lip-Bu Tan. Admittedly, he was no stranger to Cadence having been on the board for several years at that point, but was neither chairman like Stanford’s John Shoven, nor an EDA household name like Berkeley’s Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Also surprising: On paper Tan looked more quintessential VC than quintessential CEO, given his track record founding and managing Walden International’s $2 billion investment portfolio. Nonetheless, it was Lip-Bu Tan’s name that suddenly appeared in the press releases announcing the new Interim CEO. Computer History Museum: the Future of War is HereNovember 16th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
That’s because their conversation wasn’t really about war; it was about the lives that you and I are living in the here and now. And those lives – at least the privacy and security concerns associated with those lives – are mind-numbing in today’s So, are you worried about cyber-security? Are you worried about nefarious entities hacking your email, your social media accounts, your dating history, your purchasing history or credit scores? Worried that they’ve got access to your phone, your laptop, your watch, your Alexa, your TV, refrigerator, light bulbs or thermostat? Worried that they’ve infiltrated your bank, your doctor, your medical insurance provider? That they’ve cyber-attacked your power grid, regional emergency response capabilities, state and national legislatures, your federal government, your Army, Navy, CIA or FBI? Even your elections? Read the rest of Computer History Museum: the Future of War is Here |
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