That run has culminated in Synopsys' recently announcement intension to acquire design and physics simulation software leader Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) in an industry mega-merger.

Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel Corp. researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of ...

The megadeal shines a spotlight on an obscure but critical link in the semiconductor supply chain. Like many other of its links, this one, too, is highly concentrated. Yearly sales of chip-design ...

Intel has tested a chip that uses an 80-core design, performing more than a teraflops while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip.

Superconducting chips also promise greater processing power: Superconducting circuits that use so-called Josephson junctions have been clocked at 770 gigahertz, or 500 times the speed of the chip ...

With dimensions of only 1.9 x 1.3 x 1.5 mm³ the new 1608 components are the world's smallest automotive-grade MLCCs in the mega cap class.

A team of Vietnamese students got to the finals of the LSI Design Contest thanks to an AI chip solution to detect anomalies on objects.

Engineers propose a built-in security measure that would better protect computer chip hardware from hackers. A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are ...