Careers in VLSI: Roles, Skills and What Employers Want
VLSI offers many career paths, from RTL design to verification and physical design. This guide surveys the main roles, the skills they need and what employers value.
The Global Foundry Landscape Today
A handful of companies and regions dominate leading-edge manufacturing, while mature capacity is more widely spread. We survey the global foundry landscape at a technical level.
The UK’s Semiconductor Cluster in South Wales (CSconnected)
South Wales hosts CSconnected, a compound-semiconductor cluster where research institutions and manufacturers concentrate expertise, showing how regional ecosystems can build defensible advantages in specialised chips.
Samsung’s Taylor, Texas Fab and the US Foundry Race
Samsung’s Taylor, Texas fab expands its advanced-node footprint in the United States, intensifying the contest to lead the emerging US foundry market.
India’s Emerging Semiconductor Clusters: Gujarat, Assam and Karnataka
India’s semiconductor activity is coalescing into regional clusters across Gujarat, Assam and Karnataka, each playing a distinct role in the emerging ecosystem.
From RTL to Silicon: The Complete VLSI Design Flow
From an idea to a working chip, the VLSI design flow moves through many stages. This guide walks through the complete journey from RTL to silicon.
CoWoS and Advanced Packaging: Why Capacity Is the New Bottleneck
The most advanced chips increasingly depend not on the transistor but on the package around it. CoWoS-class packaging has become a genuine capacity bottleneck.
Imec and Europe’s Leading-Edge Research Edge
Imec, the Belgian nanoelectronics research hub, gives Europe a leading-edge research edge by pooling academia and industry around shared, extremely expensive advanced-process infrastructure.
Intel 18A and the Foundry Comeback Bid
Intel 18A is central to the company’s foundry comeback, aiming to regain process leadership with new transistor and power-delivery technologies.
Design-Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme: Boosting Indian Fabless Startups
The Design-Linked Incentive scheme aims to nurture Indian fabless chip startups through financial support and design infrastructure; here is how it works and why it matters.