Top 10 Technology Trends in Global Semiconductor Industry for 2025

Top 10 Technology Trends in Global Semiconductor Industry for 2025

In 2024, the global semiconductor industry did not experience the expected full recovery, but the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AIGC), automotive electronics, and communication technology has laid the foundation for underlying technologies in 2025, bringing new hope for the semiconductor industry to warm up in the new year. This year, we witnessed the … Read more

Complex Design Choices for System-on-Chip (SoC): Cores, IP, EDA, and NoC

Complex Design Choices for System-on-Chip (SoC): Cores, IP, EDA, and NoC

System-on-Chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that integrates a computing processor and other electronic systems into a single chip. SoCs can handle digital signals, analog signals, mixed signals, and even radio frequency signals, and are often used in embedded systems. Although microcontrollers (MCUs) typically have less than 100 kB of RAM, they are essentially a … Read more

New Design Ideas for Power DTU Core Board Under State Grid Regulations

New Design Ideas for Power DTU Core Board Under State Grid Regulations

According to the 2020 energy sector industry standards revision plan issued by the National Energy Administration, the China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd. has drafted two power industry standards: “12kV Integrated Column Switch” and “12kV Integrated Ring Network Box”. In June 2021, the Distribution Technology Center of the China Electric Power Research Institute organized … Read more

Chip Design Tools Needed for AI Era

Chip Design Tools Needed for AI Era

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Overview and Pain Points of China’s Automotive Chip Industry

Overview and Pain Points of China's Automotive Chip Industry

In today’s world where automobiles are continuously evolving towards intelligence, the value of chips is becoming increasingly apparent. According to McKinsey data, it is estimated that by 2030, the semiconductor market for high-level autonomous vehicles (L3 and above) in China alone could reach $13 billion. However, according to data from the China Automotive Technology and … Read more

Exploring and Grasping Innovation Directions and Development Models of Automotive Chips

Exploring and Grasping Innovation Directions and Development Models of Automotive Chips

Exploring and Grasping Innovation Directions and Development Models of Automotive Chips Introduction Chips are the cornerstone driving the automotive industry towards greater safety, intelligence, efficiency, and comfort. The performance of automotive chips has become one of the key competitive advantages of Chinese smart automotive products and reflects the overall strength of China’s chip industry to … Read more

Hardcore Observation #718: Longxin Claims RISC-V Cannot Achieve Independence

Hardcore Observation #718: Longxin Claims RISC-V Cannot Achieve Independence

Introduction:• Longxin claims RISC-V cannot achieve independence and insists on self-developed instruction set • A single-core computer cracked a quantum-resistant encryption algorithm in one hour • Fedora 37 officially supports Raspberry Pi 4 This article has 1007 words, estimated reading time: 1 minute Author: Hardcore Old Wang Longxin claims RISC-V cannot achieve independence and insists … Read more

Hardware Defines Software? Or Software Defines Hardware?

Hardware Defines Software? Or Software Defines Hardware?

Source: Software-Hardware Integration Author:Chaobowx 1 Software and Hardware 1.1 Definitions of Software and Hardware Instructions are the medium between software and hardware, and the complexity of the instructions determines the degree of decoupling between the system’s software and hardware. Based on the complexity of unit calculations (instructions), processor platforms can be roughly divided into CPU, … Read more

How Does The Highest Performance RISC-V Processor Compare To Arm?

How Does The Highest Performance RISC-V Processor Compare To Arm?

Author: Huang Yefeng Original from EET Electronic Engineering Magazine Processors based on the RISC-V architecture are increasingly appearing in everyday electronic products, becoming more commonplace: not only have some typical MCU manufacturers begun to embrace RISC-V, such as the previously interviewed Tsinghua Unigroup, but also companies like GigaDevice have launched RISC-V product lines; Moreover, this … Read more

RISC-V’s Challenge to ARM in the Simplified Instruction Set Arena

RISC-V's Challenge to ARM in the Simplified Instruction Set Arena

Source: Eefocus Original Author: Liu Haoran Introduction ✦ The main gap between RISC-V and ARM currently lies in the upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem and large-scale applications, which is the biggest challenge and difficulty facing the players in the RISC-V camp. ✦ ✦ We command computers to work, and we cannot simply say to the … Read more