They let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips--important in making the new generation of chips useful. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today’s chips are among humankind’s most complex inventions. When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk ...

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Siemens, to supplement its acquisition of Mentor Graphics, said that it had acquired Solido Design Automation, whose software tools use machine learning to chisel the rough edges from complex chip ...

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” into ...