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MIT’s chip stacking leap could slash energy use for hungry AI chips

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy it takes to move data on and off chips. Training ...
Seeking Alpha

Synopsys and TSMC Pave the Path for Trillion-Transistor AI and Multi-Die Chip Design

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its continued, close collaboration with TSMC to deliver advanced EDA and IP solutions on TSMC's most ...
Electronics For You

Soft 3D Transistors Host Cells

Flexible, hydrogel-based transistors that can host living cells point to a new class of bio-integrated electronics, blurring ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...

Nvidia debuts Rubin chip with 336B transistors and 50 petaflops of AI performance

The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, ...

Nvidia to accelerate Siemens chip-design tools using its GPUs

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in ...
ExtremeTech

Stop obsessing over transistor counts: It's a terrible way of comparing chips

As TSMC and Intel head closer to direct competition discussions of transistor density and die size have become increasingly contentious. Such comparisons, however, are fatally flawed. Share on ...
Electronic Design

Emulation and Verification in the Evolving Chip Design Market

How Siemens is taking on emulation and verification from chip design to software development. What’s included in the Veloce CS family of prototyping tools? Why you need to emulate a 40+ billion ...
TweakTown

NVIDIA's next-gen Blackwell AI GPU: multi-chip GPU die, 208 billion transistors, 192GB HBM3E

The new NVIDIA B200 AI GPU features a whopping 208 billion transistors made on TSMC's new N4P process node. It also has 192GB of ultra-fast HBM3E memory with 8TB/sec of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA is not ...
Computerworld

Imagination, TSMC collaborate on graphics chips with 3D transistors

Graphics processors with 3D transistors could come to smartphones and tablets through a technology collaboration between Imagination Technologies and contract chip maker TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor ...

Intel launches next-gen PC chip at CES in Las Vegas

Jim Johnson, ‌senior vice president ‌and general manager of Intel's PC group, offered technical details about the company's ...
Design And Reuse

TSMC begins quietly volume production of 2nm-class chips — first GAA transistor for TSMC claims up to 15% improvement at ISO power

TSMC has quietly revealed that it had commenced volume production of chips using its N2 (2nm-class) fabrication process. The company did not issue a formal press release notifying about the production ...