The big drivers of 5G mobile network adoption are higher bandwidth, lower latency and higher reliability. For 5G chipmakers, this translates into a need for 5G chips and modules with higher efficiency ...

Apple has bought IC Mask Design, a firm specializing in the layout of chips and processors. Apple is continuously acquiring companies, and most recently appears to have been buying ones concerned with ...

Intel surprised many observers when the company hired outsider Venkata Renduchintala to lead the company’s PC, Internet of Things, and Systems Architecture groups. With more than a year under his belt ...

Given Apple’s ability to design Mac processors that have left Intel ones in the dust, you might think that designing a radio chip would be a rather trivial exercise. In reality, it’s very much more ...

Indian fabless semiconductor startup Silizium Circuits has completed the end-to-end design of a GaAs-based 5G low-noise amplifier (LNA), or front-end module (FEM), marking a step forward in the ...

The world of smart home electronics is pushing ahead at a breakneck pace, bringing new form factors to the table while solving critical problems at the same time. The biggest challenge, however, ...

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 ...

Initially deployed in 2019 in the U.S. and South Korea, 5G technology, still being rolled out globally, introduced broader spectrum usage, massive multiple-input ...