There's been a shift in what's needed in modeling standards for IC design. The focus has moved from timing to power consumption. Timing modeling, which dominated much of the effort from the early to ...

Wave’s history, the company made a decision to pursue annealing as its first technology to build a quantum computer because ...

D-Wave Quantum ( ($QBTS) ) has issued an update. On January 6, 2026, D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced it had achieved an industry-first breakthrough ...

The continuing advancements in semiconductor technology have led to production flows for 130nm, 90nm and below, enabling 40 million-plus gate chips to be reliably manufactured. This article explores ...

Power is becoming a more important aspect of semiconductor design, but without an industry standard for power models, adoption is likely to be slow and fragmented. That is why Si2 and the IEEE decided ...

Complexity in hardware design is spilling over to other disciplines, including software, manufacturing, and new materials, creating issues for how to model more data at multiple abstraction levels.