Year: 2025

Design and Application of a Miniature Underwater Bionic Robot Inspired by Sea Butterflies for Multimodal Motion

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The miniature underwater robot (characteristic size less than 10 cm) has broad application prospects in fields such as archaeology, environmental monitoring, and pipeline inspection. Compared to traditional-sized underwater robots, miniature robots have a natural advantage in narrow and complex environments. Existing bionic propulsion methods (such as fish-like, snake-like, and jellyfish-like movements) typically can only move … Read more

Chip Tape-out Success Rate Plummets to 14%: The Technical Winter Behind the Failure of Eight Out of Ten Design Companies

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Chip Tape-out Success Rate Plummets to 14%: The Technical Winter Behind the Failure of Eight Out of Ten Design Companies

A precise maze on a wafer is consuming billions in R&D funds and market opportunities. In June 2025, the semiconductor industry faced a silent “avalanche.” According to the latest data from Siemens EDA: the global chip tape-out success rate has plummeted to a historic low of 14%, meaning that eight out of ten design companies … Read more

Breaking the “Chip Tape-out Winter”: Three Key Insights from the Successful Tape-out of Xiaomi’s Xuanjie O1 Chip and How Chinese Chips Can Break Through

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Breaking the "Chip Tape-out Winter": Three Key Insights from the Successful Tape-out of Xiaomi's Xuanjie O1 Chip and How Chinese Chips Can Break Through

Recently, according to the latest data released by Siemens on EDA tools, the chip industry is facing unprecedented technical challenges: the success rate of first tape-outs is plummeting to a historical low of 14% in 2025, a sharp decline from 24% two years ago—this means that eight out of ten chip design companies will fail … Read more

Chip Industry Faces Challenges: First Tape-Out Success Rate Drops to Just 14%

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Chip Industry Faces Challenges: First Tape-Out Success Rate Drops to Just 14%

The chip industry has recently been hit with concerning news: data from electronic design automation tools released by Siemens indicates that the current success rate for first tape-outs has plummeted to an unprecedented low of 14%. Just two years ago, this figure was around 24%, meaning the failure rate has surged by ten percentage points … Read more

First Tape-Out Success Rate at 14%, 1.4nm Process Costs Soar: Opportunities for Domestic EDA?

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First Tape-Out Success Rate at 14%, 1.4nm Process Costs Soar: Opportunities for Domestic EDA?

As chip scales continue to expand and design complexity increases, the development of EDA software has not kept pace. Recent statistics show that the first tape-out success rate for chips has hit a new low of only 14%. Previously, it was 28%, and even earlier it was 30%, showing a decline almost every year. This … Read more

Chip Industry Faces Challenges: Tape-out Success Rate Drops to 14%

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Chip Industry Faces Challenges: Tape-out Success Rate Drops to 14%

According to reports from Fast Technology, the semiconductor industry is facing unprecedented technical challenges, with the tape-out success rate for chips dropping to a historic low! Data from Siemens, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company, shows that the success rate of the first tape-out (tape-out) for chips has fallen to a historic low of 14%, … Read more

First Tape-out: Success Rate Drops to 14%! (A Historical Low)

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First Tape-out: Success Rate Drops to 14%! (A Historical Low)

On June 2, Chip Ranking reported that the success rate of chip tape-outs has dropped to a historical low! According to Siemens EDA data,the success rate of first-time chip design tape-outs has fallen to 14%, a significant decrease from 24% two years ago. Eight out of ten companies failed their first tape-out. The reasons stem … Read more

A Comprehensive Review of the Technological Evolution of Large Multimodal Reasoning Models: From Modular Architectures to Native Reasoning Capabilities

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A Comprehensive Review of the Technological Evolution of Large Multimodal Reasoning Models: From Modular Architectures to Native Reasoning Capabilities

This study systematically reviews and analyzes the technological development of Large Multimodal Reasoning Models (LMRMs). It outlines the evolution of the field from early modular, perception-driven architectures to unified, language-centric frameworks, and introduces the cutting-edge concept of Native Large Multimodal Reasoning Models (N-LMRMs). The paper constructs a structured roadmap for the development of multimodal reasoning, … Read more

PaddleOCR’s Pytorch Inference Module

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PaddleOCR's Pytorch Inference Module

Overview In this project, we encountered a need for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). However, the best-performing <span>PaddleOCR</span> can only run on Baidu’s <span>PaddlePaddle</span> framework. In common projects, the more widely used Pytorch framework is often preferred. Installing PaddlePaddle separately not only makes the project overly bulky but may also lead to conflicts. In the previous … Read more

High-Performance Industrial IoT (IIoT) Monitoring System in C#

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High-Performance Industrial IoT (IIoT) Monitoring System in C#

In the era of Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology has gradually become the core of the manufacturing industry. By connecting devices to the network, interconnectivity between devices can be achieved, which improves production efficiency, optimizes production processes, and reduces production costs. To efficiently monitor and manage IIoT devices, developing a high-performance monitoring … Read more