Posts Tagged ‘Intel’
Monday, March 18th, 2024
Intel has introduced a game-changing approach to how cars think and perform, marking a significant shift towards smarter, software-driven vehicles. This move is set to redefine what we expect from our cars, making them not just means of transport but smart computing hubs on wheels.
At the heart of this evolution is Intel’s latest innovation in virtualization technology, which is essentially a smarter way for the car’s computer to handle multiple tasks at once without slowing down or compromising on performance. This is big news for everyone from car manufacturers to drivers, as it addresses a key challenge in the auto industry: how to make cars that are not only efficient but also capable of delivering the advanced features and experiences consumers want.
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Tags: Automotive Electronics, Intel, Predictions
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
In an epoch where artificial intelligence (AI) not only reshapes industries but redefines our very understanding of innovation, Intel stands at the cusp of a new dawn, orchestrating a symphony of technological advancements, partnerships, and strategic initiatives aimed at positioning itself as the No. 2 foundry by 2030. The recent Intel Foundry event in San Jose, California, illuminated this path forward, marking a significant stride towards realizing this ambition. The event was graced by industry titans, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Arm CEO Rene Haas, and luminaries like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, underscoring the collaborative spirit driving this transformative journey.
A Strategic Pivot: Intel’s Foundry Vision
At the core of Intel’s strategic realignment is its profound commitment to revitalize its position in the technology industry. Three years in the making, this vision is not just about reviving a company; it’s about igniting a global transformation in semiconductor manufacturing. Intel’s CEO, Patrick Gelsinger, shared the company’s threefold mission: to restore its pivotal role in the tech industry, rebuild Western manufacturing on a grand scale, and ensure the supply chain’s resilience and sustainability.
Central to this vision is the Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a bold initiative aimed at serving both internal and external customers. This move signifies a monumental shift towards becoming a major provider of foundry services in the US and Europe, challenging the status quo and addressing the pressing need for diversification and resilience in the global semiconductor supply chain.
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Tags: Foundry, Intel
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Thursday, December 21st, 2017
Verific Design Automation in based in Alameda, not exactly Silicon Valley, but close enough to be within driving distance. The company has been in existence for almost 20 years and reports few competitors, if any. Instead, they see themselves as the de-facto standard for HDL language parsers, and as such can be found in just about every chip design flow.
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.
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Tags: AI, Apple, Applicon, ARM, Atari, Averant, Cadence, Calma, Commodore, Computervision, Daisy Systems, Dave Millman, EDA Consortium, EDA Systems, EDAC, Escalade, ESD Alliance, Go, IEEE 1801, IIT Chicago, Intel, Invionics, Mentor, Microsoft, Northstar, NVIDIA, Phil Kaufman Award, Qualcomm, RISC-V, Samsung, Sinclair, Steve Jobs, Synopsys, Synplicity, UPF 3.0, Valid Logic, Verific
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
DVCon Europe 2017 will be in Munich next week, a great destination for tourists and technologists alike. This is the fourth year the conference will occur in Europe, the original Silicon Valley based version now in its 27th year.
DVCon Europe General Chair Oliver Bell and I spoke this week by phone about the upcoming event; he was in Germany and I was in Northern California. I offered that Munich is a beautiful city, and he agreed.
“The conference will be in downtown Munich,” Bell said, “at the Holiday Inn. This is a really nice hotel, located near to Marienplaz, and easily reachable from public transportation.”
Bell then laughed and acknowledged that, as famous as the city’s Oktoberfest may be, it’s better that DVCon is being held several weeks after that particular annual exuberance has run its course. The city’s just that much more calm and enjoyable, he noted, after the hundreds of thousands of Oktoberfest revelers have returned to their normal pursuits.
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Tags: 2017 DVCon Europe, Accellera, ARM, Audi, Berthold Hellenthal, Bosch Sensortec, Cadence, Horst Symanzik, Infineon, Intel, Martin Barnasconi, Mentor Graphics, Munich, Nokia, Oliver Bell, Rohde & Schwarz, STMicro, Synopsys, SystemC Evolution Day, Technical University of Munich, UVM
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Recently, two items have been in the news. One was the Pride Parade in San Francisco, which featured floats from Google, Intel, Apple, and Amazon, accompanied by at least a thousand employees of each respective company marching west on Market Street to Civic Center Plaza.
The second item was the now widely-read manifesto from a former Google employee declaring that woman are biologically unfit to contribute to technology. The manifesto and its fallout triggered a billion words of reaction, not the least being finger-pointing at the companies who participated in the Pride Parade, along with suggestions that these companies have been corrupted by political correctness and need to be replaced.
So there you have it: Two diametrically opposed views of the world. What is the tech sector to do with itself?
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
Last week on Friday and Saturday, the IEEE Council on EDA hosted a 2-day workshop to discuss the future of design automation. Mentor Graphics provided the venue – a large conference room in their Fremont/Silicon Valley campus – and workshop leaders, UCSD Prof. Andrew Kahng, UCSD Prof. Farinaz Koushanfa, and Intel alum/CEDA President Shishpal Rawat provided the welcome.
Over the two days, a group of 50+ attendees – representing a wide cross-section of academics and industry experts – launched into conversations that were lively, energized, at times contentious, and completely engrossing. Put simply, there was no better place on the face of the globe on October 21st and 22nd where tech junkies were more intellectually challenged and entertained than at the Design Automation Futures Workshop in Fremont.
What made the workshop so compelling? For this, their inaugural DAFW, CEDA chose to address neuromorphic computing – the ultimate hotness related to machine learning, with a lot of promise for future applications. It doesn’t get any more design futures, or futuristic, than this.
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Tags: Andrew Kahng, DAFW 2016, Design Automation Futures Workshop, Farinaz Koushanfa, Google, IEEE CEDA, Intel, Machine Learning, Magma, Mentor Graphics, O-In Design Automation, Patrick Groeneveld, Richard Ho, Shishpal Rawat, Synopsys, The Rolling Stones, UC San Diego
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Thursday, March 17th, 2016
Mentor Graphics’ Tom Fitzpatrick gave a lunchtime talk at DVCon several weeks ago summarizing recent efforts to build a standard [set of standards?] around portable stimulus for verification. The room was packed with over 200 people and his talk was sufficiently complete, nobody asked any questions.
After his presentation, however, I did hear some comments. Namely that these types of standards are quite complex and difficult to develop. Hence, setting an actual delivery date of January 2017 for Portable Stimulus Standard Version 1 [PSS V1] is quite aggressive and optimistic.
I was not fully informed about Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Working Group [PSWG] prior to Fitzpatrick’s talk, so could not judge whether January 2017 is or is not overly optimistic as a delivery date for the standard. Since DVCon, I have studied the slides and attempted to better understand what this is all about: What is a Portable stimulus and what would a set of standards look like?
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Tags: Accellera, Accellera PSWG, Agnisys, AMD, AMIQ EDA, Analog Devices, Breker Verification Systems, Cadence, Cisco, DVCon, Faris Khundakjie, IBM, Intel, Mentor Graphics, NVIDIA, NXP, Portable Stimulus Working Group, Qualcomm, Semifore, Synopsys, Tom Anderson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Vayavya Labs
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Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Since initiating their Decoding Formal Club in October 2013, Oski Technology has hosted this much-needed get-together every quarter, most recently on October 21st of this year at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I was fortunate to attend the debut meeting in 2013, so it was interesting to hear from Oski VP Jin Zhang that the support group is proving valuable to the growing numbers who attend.
“The first time we held the meeting,” Zhang said, “it was by invitation only, and we included about a dozen folks. Since that first event, we have continued to use the same room at the Computer History Museum, a room that can hold up to 40 people.
“The workshop, however, is continuing to grow very nicely, so we are faced with either finding a new venue or working with the museum to arrange for a bigger room for our next meeting in the first quarter of 2016.”
Zhang said interest in the event has increased to the point that people sign up to attend as soon as the date and time are announced. “They want to be sure they’ve got a spot,” she said.
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Tags: Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Cadence, Decoding Formal Club, formal verification, Google, Intel, Jin Zhang, Mentor Graphics, NVIDIA, Oski Technology, Synopsys
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Alain Labat, the former President & CEO of VaST Systems, told me on a phone call this week that his story, in a way, is very simple: “When we got acquired by Synopsys in 2010, 5 years ago now, our management and investors clearly saw an opportunity to start our own investment bank and advisory company, so that’s what we did.
“We believed then, and still believe, that if you need a big bank from New York or a huge amount of money [to begin your enterprise], the right people are the Goldman Sachs or the other Wall Street guys. But for a technology-based company, you need something different.
“And so, at the advice of our investors, we started Harvest Management Partners specifically for those companies who need something different. Coming from VaST as we did, with a great deal of true operational experience, we felt we could offer much-needed guidance to those companies who were not a good fit for Wall Street.
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Tags: Alain Labat, Ansys, Bosch, Delphi, Docea Power, FCA Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Greg Hinkley, Harvest Management Partners, Intel, Jen-Hsun Huang, Kyle Park, Mentor Graphics, Nimbic, NVIDIA, Synopsys, Tanner EDA, Tesla, VaST Systems, Wally Rhines
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Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Omygosh, DAC’s here again! Has it already been a year? Apparently yes, and apparently once again the Design Automation Conference is going to be great. And how does one know? Because once again the DAC Executive Committee is great, lead in 2015 by the more-than-capable Anne Cirkel (Mentor’s own). Everything from academia to industry, from networking to hard-core learning (read, ‘Nerd Alert!)’, from food and libation to product announcements: DAC is always special.
So today is Sunday, which in the world of DAC is a lovely day full of workshops for those interested in the newest, and social opportunities for those interested in the noshing and nattering. Sunday is also lovely, because it’s a moment for astonishing realizations, and this year’s 52nd DAC Sunday is no different. Here are my 10 favs:
10 — Per Stanford’s Philip Wong speaking in Workshop 2, carbon nanotubes are smooth which helps with mobility-restricting surface roughness and band-gap issues. Also CNTs are no longer “a bowl of spaghetti” when manufactured. Now they’re 99% orderly and courteously aligned. (read, ‘Is asking about the other 1% a legitimate question?’)
9 — EDA’s own Karen Bartleson of SNPS fame, has not only just completed 2 years of distinguished service as President of IEEE’s worldwide Standards Organization, she’s now been nominated to serve as President of the Whole Enchilada; Bartleson’s running for President of the IEEE itself. In a word, Wow!
8 — Design Automation Summer School, for those who have not been keeping up (read, ‘me’), is no longer a week-long confab in July. These days Summer School is a one-day event on DAC Sunday. Still highly attended and full of pithy content for The Young & The Restless in EDA.
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Tags: Ajoy Bose, Alain Labat, Anne Cirkel, Ansys, Apple, Atrenta, Cadence, DA Summer School, DAC, Design Automation Conference, EDAC, edaForum, Elliot Garbus, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Four Seasons, Harvest Management Partners, IEEE, Intel, Karen Bartleson, Klauss Busse, Mentor Automotive, Mentor Graphics, Patrick Groenveld, Philip Wong, Soha Hassoun, Synopsys, Wally Rhines, WWDC15
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