Electronics Weekly
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5. Codasip looking for a quick sale
Codasip, the RISC-V developer, is asking for buyers either for the company as a whole or for parts of it. An inducement is €119 million in grants and equity funding from various bodies of the EU and national authorities most of which is still to be received. Codasip reckons the follow-on phases of the grants will total a further €210 million. Codasip is also part of consortia and projects that could bring in an additional €51 million or more in future financing, it says. All these funds are transferable to a buyer under ‘reasonable terms’, it says.
4. Siemens applies AI across chip and PCB design portfolio
DAC 2025: There was a lot of talk about AI at this year’s DAC but one of the most significant was that Siemens Digital Industries Software has added generative and agentic AI capabilities across its EDA portfolio. The EDA AI system applies across all semiconductor and PCB design suites, including Questra, Tessent, Xpedition, Veloce, Catapult, Calibre, Aprisa and Solido. “It is important that [the system] is open and customisable and supports multiple LLMs (large language models), said Amit Gupta, VP and GM of Siemens’ Custom IC Verification division.
3. Keysight and Synopsys employ AI for RF design migration
Keysight has combined it Electromagnetic Simulator with Synopsys’ AI-powered RF design migration flow for an integrated design flow to migrate from TSMC’s N6RF+ to N4P process technology. The migration workflow builds on the foundry’s Analog Design Migration (ADM) methodology to streamline the redesign of passive devices and design components to the advanced RF process rules. The collaborative migration workflow leverages the performance gain of the N4P process for the LNA design migrated from N6RF+, said Keysight.
2. Wolfspeed files for bankruptcy
Wolfspeed, the SiC specialist, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has entered arrangement with creditors that reduces by $4.6 billion its total debts estimated by Reuters at $6.5 billion. The company says it will reduce its interest bill on the debt by 60% . The company has cash of $1.3 billion. “Wolfspeed is continuing to operate as usual throughout the process, including delivering silicon carbide materials and devices to its customers and paying its vendors in the ordinary course,” it said in a statement.
1. Intel may stop marketing 18A to foundry customers
Intel is considering whether to stop trying to sell its 18A process to foundry customers and concentrate on 14A, reports Reuters. 18A would still be used by Intel for its own products starting with Panther Lake later this year. The overwhelming choice of the big customers for a 2nm foundry process has been TSMC whose 2nm process has shown good yields and will have capacity to run 50k wpm by the end of this year and 120-130k wpm by the end of next year.
