How to Build a Soft-Hardware Collaborative ‘Core’ Base in the Era of Edge AI?

This article is reprinted from the Jishu Community Source:How to Build a Soft-Hardware Collaborative ‘Core’ Base in the Era of Edge AI? By 2025, with the emergence of AI applications such as DeepSeek, robots, AI agents, and multimodal generation like GPT-4o, concepts like “deep thinking,” “intelligent agents,” and “multimodal” have rapidly transitioned from specialized fields … Read more

Arm Launches Next-Generation Ethos-U AI Accelerator and New IoT Reference Design Platform to Accelerate Edge AI Development

Arm Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: ARM, hereinafter referred to as “Arm”) today announced the launch of the Arm® Ethos™-U85 Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which is Arm’s highest performance and most energy-efficient Ethos NPU product to date, along with a new IoT reference design platform—Arm Corstone™-320—to accelerate the deployment of voice, audio, and visual systems. Paul Williamson, … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Global AI Chip Industry at a New Crossroads

The Global AI Chip Industry at a New Crossroads

Any strategy that attempts to maintain a technological advantage through blockades will ultimately give rise to stronger alternatives. The only way to change this is to return to the philosophical discourse proposed by Popper in “The Open Society and Its Enemies”—we should believe in the power of openness and trust that an open ecosystem will … Read more

Exploration of C++ Programming Fundamentals Teaching Empowered by AI, Integration of General and Specialized Knowledge, and Industry-Education Collaboration

0 Introduction The New Engineering discipline refers to an educational approach centered on information technology, integrating multidisciplinary knowledge and skills, aimed at cultivating engineering talents with innovation, practical skills, and interdisciplinary capabilities.[1] C++ programming is a crucial foundational knowledge in the field of computer science and engineering. With the rapid development of information technology and … Read more

Mobile Giants’ Expedition into Humanoid Robotics

Mobile Giants' Expedition into Humanoid Robotics

On May 28, Honor announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it will invest $10 billion to promote its artificial intelligence strategy, focusing on the development of humanoid robots and entering the fiercely competitive AI field in China. Recently, at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2025, vivo also announced the establishment … Read more

NVIDIA Will Ultimately Become a Robotics Company

NVIDIA Will Ultimately Become a Robotics Company

Source | Quantum Bit 2025 will be the year of mass production for humanoid robots. The recent appearance of 14 robots at CES by Jensen Huang has sparked renewed discussion following a prediction from SemiAnalysis analysts. NVIDIA will ultimately become a robotics company, not just a semiconductor company. Only a few understand their foundational layout, … Read more

Xuhui Becomes a Hotbed for Robotics Innovation

Xuhui Becomes a Hotbed for Robotics Innovation

The 5th Yangtze River Delta Sports Festival Opens in Shanghai Nowadays, various regions are keen on hosting different sports events. In the Yangtze River Delta, there is a “Yangtze River Delta Sports Festival” that is held alternately by Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui, with Shanghai hosting the fifth edition. What makes the “Yangtze River Delta … Read more