Semiconductor Engineering5y
5/3nm Wars Begin
Samsung and TSMC are ramping up 5nm and various half-nodes offerings. 3nm is in R&D. All processes are expensive. The design cost for a 3nm chip is $650 million, compared to $436.3 million for a 5nm ...
Semiconductor Engineering6y
What’s the Right Path For Scaling?
IC design costs have jumped from $51.3 million for a 28nm planar device to $297.8 million for a 7nm chip and $542.2 million for 5nm, according to IBS. “PPAC (power, performance, area, cost) scaling at ...
Design-Reuse2y
Integrating high speed IP at 5nm
The advancements in deep submicron technology and adding multiple functionalities to reduce costs combined with scaling existing ... and suggestions that can help master the challenges of 5nm design.
CRN2y
Chip Startup Ceremorphic Seeks AI, HPC Edge With New 5nm Design
Venkat Mattela, founder and CEO of Ceremorphic, told CRN in late January that access to an advanced manufacturing process like the 5nm node from ... for his team to design as much of its own ...
Design-Reuse7mon
PCIe 6.0 PHY on 5nm
The Qualitas' 5nm PCIe PHY IP consists of hardmacro PMA and PCS compliant to PCIe Base 6.0 specification. This IP offers a cost-effective and low-power solution using 5nm FinFet CMOS technology. It ...