chips

A giant is ready to get into the market of chips manufacturing machines: LG Electronics

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The HBM memories market (High Bandwidth Memory) that work side by side with the GPUs for artificial intelligence (IA) Three companies lead it clearly: Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology. Interestingly, memory chips are The South Korean economy engine Trade dependent. And Samsung and Sk Hynix are Companies that support this industry In this Asian country. In fact, these two South Korean companies compete with each other to master the lucrative HBM memory chips. AND They do not supply when it comes to manufacturing as many integrated circuits as their customers demand. The most important of all of them is, as we can intuit, Nvidia. The export of semiconductors in South Korea increases, but its chips stocks 33.7% fell in April of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023 according to the National Statistics Office. In any case, another South Korean company is ready to enter the market for integrated HBM memory circuits, although it will not compete with SK Hynix and Samsung. LG is preparing a unique machine to produce HBM memories Manufacturing integrated VAGUARD HBM circuits is not simple. The processes involved in the production of these chips are complex, and in them very advanced technologies are involved. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron are manufacturing on a large scale, although with different success12 -layer HBM3E memories. The two South Korean firms will produce large -scale HBM4 chips during the second semester of 2025, and Micron will do so in 2026. However, CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), one of the Chinese companies specialized in the production of memoirs, will launch Your first HBM3E chips in 2027. The main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way China has several memories manufacturers Important, but they currently do not have solutions capable of competing with the best of SK Hynix or Micron. This circumstance reminds us of how complex it is to manufacture latest generation HBM chips. LG Electronics is going to enter this marketbut you will not compete from you to you with memory chips manufacturers. The opposite; aspires to be your customers. Koo Kwang-Mo, the president of this company, has confirmed That its strategy is to participate in the hardware industry for AI, but it will make it marketing its own chips manufacturing equipment. In fact, LG is developing a machine that will be specifically designed to produce avant -garde HBM memories. According to this company, the main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way than with the technologies currently available. In theory, the innovation in which LG engineers are working will contribute to the tuning of HBM memories of more capacity and with a lower heat dissipation index. LG plans go to make their HBM memories production team in 2028. The main manufacturers of these machines are the American company Applied Materials and the Dutch Besi, so these are The companies with which LG will compete If finally its memory semiconductor production machine comes to fruition. If so, it is likely that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are interested in their team, although it is also possible to apply materials or kiss forward to LG. In fact, SK Hynix and Samsung plan to introduce this technology this year. More information | Economic Seoul In Xataka | Chinese memory chips manufacturers are a nightmare for the US and South Korea. There is a lot at play

Spain finally runs out of the Broadcom chips factory. This US company has broken with the government

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At the beginning of July 2023 Charlie Kawwas, the president of the Broadcom subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of semiconductors, announced that your company had reached an agreement with the Government of Spain to build An advanced integrated circuit factory on Spanish soil. Its budget touched the 1,000 million dollars (about 850 million euros), and although it never became completed its location for several months a filtration anticipated that this plant would stay in Zaragoza. According to Kawwas, these facilities were going to be specialized in Substrate manufacturing And they would help this American company reinforce its position in the semiconductor production market. For Spain, the construction of this factory was great news because it would place the country on the European map of The production of advanced substrates. And, in addition, presumably would generate high qualification jobs and develop the technological ecosystem of the area in which it finally be installed. Unfortunately this project will not come to fruition. Broadcom has back According to the Europa Press agencyBroadcom will finally not build its factory in Spain. The negotiation that this company maintained and the Spanish government has been broken, apparently. At the moment it has not transcended the reason why this project will not prosper, but according to Europa Press Donald Trump’s return To the White House has been able to exercise as a death sentence in a context in which the commercial relationship between the US and Europe goes through a very complicated moment. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end he did not curdle,” In fact, the arrival of Trump ended another project in which the Spanish government intended to invest 400 million euros to establish a company joint with an American company. Its purpose was also to build a chips manufacturing plant. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end it did not curdle. Right now there is a feeling that US companies are very restricted when investing in Europe, ” has declared One of the sources of Europa Press. It makes sense. The administration led by Trump pursues reinforce your local semiconductor industryso it is perfectly credible to be zancadilleando the plans of US companies that plan to invest outside the US. On the other hand, the construction of a avant -garde semiconductor manufacturing plant usually costs Between 20,000 and 30,000 million eurosso it is evident that the factory that Broadcom was going to be tuned in Spain was not going to be at all toe. Even so, it is a pity that this project has been frustrated. Image | Chris Hsia More information | Europa Press In Xataka | Chips manufacturers are coming from pearls to attract them. These are your reasons to come

The 2020 chips crisis will be a joke compared to that with a high probability will come in 2035

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The crisis of the chips that started in 2020 and lasted until well into 2023 was The result of a perfect storm. The Covid-19 pandemia triggered the demand for electronic devices, and, at the same time, at the same time, degraded production capacity of many companies. In addition, the commercial war between the US and China, the severe climatic events and several fires in critical facilities The global distribution chain of integrated circuits overflowed almost combined. Now, in full 2025, we are in a very different situation. The scarcity of semiconductors has been left behind, but According to a report Prepared by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is maturing a new crisis with the ability to achieve its peak in 2035. A crisis that can presumably end with a third of the global chips supply in a decade. There are ten years left, it is true, but probably its first effects will be presented much earlier. Serious droughts are already committing copper mining The PWC report holds something very important: if the weather continues to evolve as it has done during the last decade and the droughts are aggravated by the manufacture of integrated circuits will resent drastically. And it will do so because copper mining depends inevitably on available water resources. According to the CSIRO organization (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), The National Science Agency of Australia, to obtain 19 kg of copper it is necessary to use about 1,600 liters of water. These figures clearly illustrate the deep dependence of water copper mining. According to the International Copper Association Currently almost 28 million tons of this chemical element are consumed annually, and presumably this figure will increase a lot over the next few years. As we can intuit, to process this amount of copper it is necessary to use a lot of water, and this resource is increasingly scarce due to The effects of climate change. In fact, PWC estimates that semiconductor production will reduce 58% in 2050 If the weather continues to evolve as it is doing now. The production of semiconductors will reduce 58% in 2050 if the weather continues to evolve as it is doing now This forecast does not invite us at all to be optimistic, especially in a context in which chips are increasingly important and their demand does not cease to increase. Copper is used for many other things, but its role in the integrated circuit industry is essential. And it is because its physicochemical and electrical properties make it ideal to participate in the manufacture of interconnections within the integrated circuits, as well as in the production of all types of wiring and printed circuit plates (PCB). Its most appreciated properties are its high electrical conductivity, its outstanding thermal conductivity, its ductility and its corrosion resistance. For several decades, aluminum occupied the place in the chips industry in which copper now resides, but this last metal finally managed to impose itself, although it was not easy. His problem was that he could leak in silicon. This process is known as Dissemination of copper in siliconand it is similar to the electromigration of which We talk to you in this other article To explain why this last phenomenon represents a threat to our electronic devices. In any case, during the diffusion the copper atoms move and infiltrate the crystalline structure of the silicon, degrading it and conditioning its physicochemical properties. Fortunately, IBM found the solution to this problem in 1998. His researchers realized that it was possible to put a lining for copper interconnections capable of acting as a barrier, and, therefore, of preventing copper atoms from infiltrating the silicon. This strategy was so effective that the semiconductor industry adopted it and has maintained it so far. Image | TSMC More information | SCMP In Xataka | The two most important chip companies in China have a problem: the 5 Nm have been choked

load the chips with 18A

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Lip-bu Tan, that for a few months He took Pat Gelsinger’s witness As Executive Director of Intel, he is considering An important strategic turn in its chips manufacturing division. The play goes through betting directly on the 14th technology instead of The 18A processin which his predecessor Pat Gels had invested billions of dollars. It would not be the first time that Intel leaves a manufacturing node in this way. A crisis that is maintained despite the change of leader. Intel has been losing ground in front of TSMC for years, the Taiwanese giant who dominates the manufacture of chips for colossal clients such as Apple or Nvidia. That the company has shown signs of wanting to focus on the following manufacturing node and abandon the 18A process (in force for its next Panther Lake processors) represents one of the most risky movements to try to recover competitiveness in a sector where Intel has ceased to be a leader after decades of domain. The strategy of such. Since assumed office in Marchthe new CEO has acted quickly to reduce costs and find new growth paths. Its proposal is to concentrate resources in the 14A process, considered more competitive in the face of TSMC technologies, and slow down the 18A marketing to external clients. This decision could involve throwing hundreds of millions, or even billions, dollars in investments already made. The risks are huge. Leaving the 18th would mean assuming millionaire losses due to the investments made, but maintaining it could further away to the great clients that Intel needs for their contract manufacturing division. The company already He has committed Small 18A production volumes with Amazon and Microsoft, but these contracts would not change with the new strategy. The financial context. Intel is going through one of the deepest crises in its history. In 2024 he registered his first year with losses since 1986, with red numbers of 18.8 billion dollars. The company has already fired more than 15,000 employees Since 2024 and planned to cut between 8,000 and 10,900 additional workers from its factories between June and July. What comes now. The Board of Directors of Intel will analyze the options proposed by so at its meeting this month, although the final decision could be delayed until autumn given the complexity of the matter. Meanwhile, Intel will continue to use the 18th for his own chips and fulfill the commitments already acquired with some clients, but the future of their manufacturing division will depend on whether it manages to convince the market that the 14th can really compete with TSMC. Cover image | Intel In Xataka | AI is one of the most advanced technologies that the human being has built. It also gets distracted with a cat

China is at the gates of overcoming Taiwan in number of chips produced. Sounds very intimidating but it is not so much

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China will surpass Taiwan in 2030 in the production capacity of semiconductors. This is indicated by a recent Yole Group report that highlights how the efforts of the Asian giant will soon be rewarded. At least in the quantity section. Not so much in quality. Chinese-Taiwan tension. China has one especially delicate relationship With Taiwan, and that shows in the chips race. TSMC is the jewel of the Taiwanese crownabsolute protagonist in the semiconductor sector. No one produces more and better chips, and the restrictions that affect the People’s Republic of China (China) do not affect the Chinese Republic (Taiwan). China, however, has been investing in its own continental companies and manufacturing plants (“Foundries”), and that is giving results. The data. According to this study, the production capacity of semiconductors in continental China plants will represent 30% of the world total quota before the decade ends, when in 2024 it was 21%. Taiwan currently is the market leader with a 23%share, while China is already second with the aforementioned 21%. Behind are South Korea (19%), Japan (13%) and the US (10%). Big Fund. Beijing put years ago its plan to be a “complete nation” in the field of semicoductors. This is: not depending on anyone. To do this, he created the so -called Investment Fund of the Integrated Circuit Industry of China, popularly known as the “great background” or “Big Fund”. The economic support of this body has allowed SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor – two of the main manufacturers of Chinese semiconductors – to flourish especially. Chinese manufacturers evolve. The domestic plants of continental China have been growing in relevance, and They have invested significantly in expansions that allow working in chips for sectors such as automotive or generative artificial intelligence. All this makes the panorama for semiconductors in China improve, but only in a section. Good for quantity, bad for “quality”. The problem of these semiconductor plants is that they use less advanced photolithographs ranging from 8 to 45 Nm. Although these types of chips remain perfectly valid for industries such as automotive, IoT devices or appliances, they are not for advanced AI chips, which are in which TSMC dominates. The great Chinese promise, in trouble. SMIC, the main Chinese semiconductor manufacturer, has been trying to make the leap to a 5 Nm photolithographic node, but this technology He is choking. In fact, his 7 nm node already had Notable problems In performance per wafer, and failing to take that step is for the moment a negative note in that remarkable advance in production rhythms. And while his rivals for all. TSMC and Samsung have already overcome that photolithographic node and are going at full speed to start the mass production of 2 nm chips. It is expected that TSMC achieves it this year and that Samsung does it in 2026. Taiwan in fact is Testing your lithography A14 (1.4 Nm), which will enter large -scale production in 2028. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | ASML’s new lithography team divides chips manufacturers. TSMC considers not using it until 2030

The true bottleneck of AI is not chips but electricity. And there China has a great asset

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Data centers are Electricity devourers. A single training cluster can spend more light than 100,000 houses. And while we become obsessed with the semiconductor war, the main problem is still there, in silence: electricity. Why is it important. Training the most powerful models require superoring workers 24 hours for whole weeks. It doesn’t matter if you have the best chips in the world if you don’t have electricity to feed them. It is like having a Ferrari with hardly any gasoline. In figures: The context. The United States has an still incontestable domain in AI and controls 75% of world computing capacity. But their companies are being delays with years to connect new data centers to the electricity network. Google, Microsoft and Amazon They have to deal with years of delays to connect new data centers to the electricity network. China, on the other hand, can lift and connect plants in a few months. Unidso’s bottleneck is in the slowness to connect new capacity to the network. Between the lines. American chip restrictions have forced China to be more efficient. He Deepseek earthquake At the beginning of the year it was the best test. China is riding its “National Integrated Computer Network”, connecting public and private data centers. Your “East Data, West Computing” plan “ Build eight big hubs in provinces with cheap renewable energy. It is something similar to what we saw at the time with the cryptocurrency mining. The key: China puts the AI ​​where there is electricity. Yes, but. Coal is still 58% of its mix energetic. Although renewables is expanding at a good pace, its current advantage is based partly on fossil fuels. That questions the sustainability of its strategy. And now what. The AI ​​career will be decided both in power plants and in laboratories. China is building the infrastructure to feed gigantic models. The United States has better chips, But worse electrical infrastructure. AI needs two things: Silicon. Electric muscle China is betting very strong for the second and that could be its winning asset. Outstanding image | ダモ リ in Unspash In Xataka | China’s three master moves to “independent” technologically from the West: raw materials, chips, AI

Chips manufacturers seek talent urgently. In Europe only 100,000 more engineers are needed

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During the next five years the global semiconductor industry will need to incorporate nothing less than One million qualified workers. This prognosis is no elucubration; It comes from SEMIan international organization that watches over the interests of the electronics industries and integrated circuits. According to their forecasts Europe will face a deficit of 100,000 engineers, and Asia will need 200,000 qualified technicians. These a priori figures may seem exaggerated, but they are not at all if we consider that for 2024 the chips industry grew by 19.1% compared to 2023 thanks to the demand for GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI) and consumer electronic products, as well as to the expansion of 5G communications throughout the planet and the development of the car market. In 2024 the global semiconductor industry invoiced 627.6 billion dollars. There are not enough professionals to support the growth of this industry TSMC, The biggest chips manufacturer on the planethe goes hunting again year after year to be able to meet his needs. During 2023 recruited 6,000 engineers For its Taiwan facilities, and presumably this trend also remained for 2024. And between 2025 and 2028 it will start several semiconductor manufacturing plants in the US, Germany, Taiwan and Japan. TSMC is one of the most successful companies in this sector, but with all probability other chips designers and manufacturers will also need to strengthen their templates. The average salary of an engineer without previous experience, backed by a master’s degree and newly arrived at TSMC exceeds $ 65,500 annually In this situation the salaries offered by these companies are very high. The average salary of an engineer without previous experience, endorsed by a master’s degree and newcomer to TSMC exceeds $ 65,500 annually (Approximately 56,000 euros), But this is just the starting point. It is assumed that as their salary acquires experience. The problem facing semiconductor companies, According to semiis that as many people with technical profile are not being formed in universities as they will need in the short and medium term. In addition, many of the most experienced engineers are retiring or will do so before 2030. As a button shows: in the US, a third of employees of integrated circuit companies have 55 years or more. And in Germany a third of the technicians who have developed their work career in the chips industry will retire throughout the next decade. However, there is another challenge that also compromises the future of these companies: the next batch of engineers will have to have advanced skills in AI and Automatic learning. The companies that are dedicated to the semiconductors are aware of the problem that already looms on them, which has caused some to have launched initiatives that initiatives that initiatives that initiatives that They go beyond offering good salaries. Some of these measures are to invest in the progression of their professionals and offer them flexibility to prevent them from leaving; in seeking candidates with non -traditional profiles in which their skills prevail and not their training, or in promoting the incorporation of women into this industry. At the moment Women represent only 17% of technical positions in the semiconductor industry. Image | TSMC More information | SEMI In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

An existential threat looms over several US chips companies. And China is just one of its problems

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Several US companies involved directly in the integrated circuit industry are suffering. Some of them, in fact, They are flirting with bankruptcy. In this context it is inevitable not to think of Intel and The difficult stage that crosses Currently, but from the company Led by Lip-Bu Tan We have spoken a lot in recent months. The companies in which we are going to investigate in this article are smaller, but, even so, they play a very important role in the US chips industry. The worst is happening is, without a doubt, Wolfspeed. And this company of Durham (North Carolina) It has officially declared in bankruptcy. Its specialty is the development and manufacture of silicon carbide (sic) and gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors for high -power electronics applications, which positions them as extraordinarily attractive integrated circuits for the electric car industries, renewable energy, data centers, fast -charged infrastructure and aerospace and military industries. Robert Feurle, the general director of Wolfspeed, has declared That “after evaluating the options available to strengthen our balance and adjust our capital structure we have decided to take this strategic step (declare in bankruptcy and look for new financing routes) because we believe that it will place Wolfspeed in the best possible position for the future.” An interesting note before moving forward: Spain has launched The Godic project with the purpose of contributing to the independence of Europe of silicon carbide semiconductors from China and the US. China is not the only cause of the problems of American companies Wolfspeed is not at all the only company in the US chips industry that is in difficulties from a financial point of view. The American subsidiary of the Israeli company Tower Semiconductor, Globalfoundries, on semiconductor, Skywater Technology or Ayar Labs are some of the companies that are also facing economic difficulties. The competition from China is subjecting them to a pressure that does not cease to increase, but the competitiveness of Chinese companies is not the only factor that is putting in trouble some US chips companies. The competitiveness of Chinese companies is not the only factor that is putting in trouble some US chips companies Tariffs linked to Imports from China which has deployed US administration seeks to protect the business of US companies within your market. However, most of the companies that I have mentioned in the previous paragraph also sells their semiconductors outside the US. And the competitiveness of Chinese companies in other markets is very high due mainly to two crucial factors: their prices are moderate thanks to contained production costs and the quality of their products is comparable to that of their western and Asian competitors. In any case, the economic problems faced by some designers and manufacturers of American chips do not have their origin solely in China’s competition. Wolfspeed is at a very delicate moment because, beyond the pressure exerted on it, its Chinese competitors, The global demand of the high -power semiconductors it produces has fallen. In addition, during the last five years He has borrowed To be able to build new integrated circuit factories, and currently you cannot assume this economic burden. The panorama of other US companies that are dedicated to chips is not very different to the context with which Wolfspeed is dealingso it is possible that in the short or medium term other companies also enter in bankruptcy. Image | Xataka More information | GLOBALDATA In Xataka | The US is willing to do anything for advanced chips not to reach China. And Malaysia is an obstacle

Huawei states that he is staying behind the chips. It is just what we want us to create

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Huawei doesn’t like to get attention. He doesn’t want headlines. It is not generating too many and since 2019 The US veto and google occur The company has adopted a low profile and a shy, silent narrative. But as long as he does, Huawei does not stop growing and consolidating his role as one of the most important technology companies in the world. The silent leader. Ren Zhengfei (Anshun, 1944) founded Huawei in 1987 and is not only the company’s CEO: he is considered a spiritual leader. He doesn’t see it like that and affirms which is rather “a puppet leader (…). It only develops a symbolic role, like an idol of cement in a temple. Without it the temple would seem empty, but in reality the idol does nothing … that I am in Huawei or in Huawei has no real impact.” Who wants to be forgotten. Despite its absolute relevance, whether symbolic or not, Zhengfei has no intention of being in the foreground. His hope is in fact end up being forgotten. “I am just an old man. What is the point of reminding me? People should think more about the future and the world. My greatest desire is to have a coffee in a cafeteria without anyone noticing.” Zhengfei is known for his reserved and discreet character, and has transferred that way of being to his company. “Our chips are a generation behind the US”. The phrase is from the aforementioned Ren Zhengfei, which In an interview In the Chinese state media People’s Daily talked about his latest advances in semiconductors. There the head of this giant explained that the sanctions that prevent Huawei from obtaining or manufacturing state -of -the -art chips cause that “our chip continues a generation behind the US.” Better not believe it much. Huawei is Property of your employees And he has ties with the Popular Chinese Liberation Army, the country’s armed forces, of which Ren Zhengfei was part for several years. The commercial war has caused the company to adopt a very discreet profile, and REN’s comment on the state of its chips is possibly a strategy not to attract attention. Because although there may still be differences with the advances of the US, the Chinese giant does not stop expanding. For all without being noticed. I explained it William Huo, an expert who explained in China how Huawei is currently 25,000 million dollars a year on R&D. One of the results of these investments have been New Ascend chips for ia that has not been designed to overcome Nvidia chips, but to climb big. And there is a blunt example. Source: Semiianalysis Cloudmatrix 384. Huawei chips may not be so powerful, but their clusters are. It is demonstrated by the cloudmatrix 384, direct competitor of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This monster has 384 GPUS Ascend 910C connected through an optical network that allows an interconnection at speeds much larger than those offered by copper cables of the Nvidia cluster. But it is also a complete cloudmatrix 384 system, as indicated in Semiianalysisoffer up to 300 flops (in BF16 accuracy) of computing, almost double what the NVL72 GB200 of NVIDIA offers. Not only that: it has the memory capacity 3.6 times and 2.1x times the memory bandwidth. The Huawei machine is an absolute beast, no matter how much its chips “are a generation behind” – which is debatable. The confusion. A few weeks ago there was talk of how the new laptop Huawei Matebook fold Huawei would be based on the promising Kirin X90 chip. That soc, manufactured by SMICit seemed to be manufactured with 5 Nm photolithographic node, but that was difficult. Especially since SMIC – La Foundry China that Try to follow the steps A TSMC or Samsung – has no access extreme ultraviolet photolithography equipment asml. How was I going to achieve it then? China advances in semiconductors. SMIC (semiconductor manufacturing international corp) is the largest Chinese semiconductor manufacturer, and has a quota of about 5% In the world market. The US veto has caused this manufacturer to have access to EUV equipment, but Some rumors They pointed to what He had achieved A 5 NM node with deep ultraviolet technology (UVP). It is not so, and new data reveal that the X90 does not use a node of 5 nm (N+3) but the already known 7 Nm (N+2) As it happened with the Kirin 9020. Be careful, because in SMIC they are working on their own lithography of 5 nm, and they seem be close to achieving it. And beyond, of course, The 3 nm. A wolf with lamb skin. Huawei does not usually generate headlines, but it seems just what he is looking for. And meanwhile, as Huo states, he manages to buy time in which the industry does not look so much in it. And meanwhile, scale without rest. But as this analyst says, not to pursue quarterly benefits, but to endure. Image | Rubaitul Azad In Xataka | USA says that Huawei will not be able to manufacture more than 200,000 AI chips in 2025. We know what the reason is

Apple has confessed that you are using AI to design its next chips. What comes to us to users is anthological

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American companies Cadence Design Systems and Synopys are the most important in the software industry specialized in Integrated circuit design automation, known as Eda for its English denomination (Electronic Design Automation). And both have taken the same path by integrating into their solutions models of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to optimize semiconductor design processes. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Broadcom or Medialatek are some of the chip designers who use the EDA software of these two companies, and some of them are already starting to flirt with the design through AI. In fact, Johny Srouji, Senior Vice President of Apple hardware technologies, has confirmed That the apple company is interested in taking advantage of the generative artificial intelligence to design the integrated circuits that it incorporates into its devices. “EDA software companies have a critical role when supporting the complexity of our chips designs,” Soruji holds. “The generative the techniques have enormous potential that can help us carry out more design work in less time, so they can give us a great impulse in the field of productivity (…) Passing the Mac to Apple Silicon was a great bet for us. We did not have a plan B or we were going to divide the product line. We bet everything.” This is what we can expect from the chips designed with AI From Johny Srouji’s statements a very clear idea follows: his commitment to EDA software endowed with AI It is definitive. This is the reason why he recalled the moment in which Apple decided to leave Intel’s chips and bet on his own designs. Somehow this engineer is hinting that the use of the generative AI in the design of integrated circuits is a milestone for chips designers. And he is right. The main consequence derived from the use of EDA software is the acceleration of the integrated circuit design process The main consequence derived from the use of EDA software is the acceleration of the integrated circuit design process. Apple, Nvidia, Google, AMD or Intel, among other companies, already have on the table the possibility of invest much less time in design of their own semiconductors. However, this is not all. The AI ​​can also be responsible for carrying out a part of the work carried out by the engineers of these companies. The EDA software reinforced with AI is able to optimize the performance per watt of the chips and their gross productivity, two objectives that until now were in the hands of the experts in the design of the microarchitecture of the integrated circuits. For this reason Apple and the other semiconductor designers will be able to reduce the time between two generations of consecutive chips, and, more importantly, they will manage to adapt more quickly to the changing needs of the market. Somehow we have already revealed what implications the popularization of EDA software has from the user’s point of view. And it is that in all likelihood we can expect that the improvements implemented in two consecutive chips generations have a perceptibly greater than the current range. In practice this resource should allow integrated circuit designers to improve a lot both its gross performance and its performance per wattalthough it remains to be seen to what extent the limitations imposed by current silicon technology restrict the capacities of the next generations of semiconductors. Anyway, there is no doubt that a new and unexplored world opens before us. Image | Apple More information | Reuters In Xataka | Apple believes that its rivals are not doing well in ia. It is the perfect excuse to delay Siri one more year

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