CEO Interview: Johnny Shen of Alchip

Alchip was founded in 2003 by a group of Silicon Valley veterans that followed a similar path of working for semiconductor companies then moving to the EDA/IP/ASIC ecosystem. In fact……

Alchip’s VP of R&D, James Huang, Was Presenting at SemIsrael Expo 2019

Alchip’s VP of R&D, James Huang, has presented “Physical Design For Large Scale AI/HPC Chip” in SemIsrael Expo 2019 on November 19th in Airport City, Israel…….

Target: 50% Reduction In Memory Power

Memory consumes about 50% or more of the area and about 50% of the power of an SoC, and those percentages are likely to increase. The problem is that static random access memory (SRAM) has not scaled in accordance with Moore’s Law, and that will not change. In addition, with many devices not chasing the latest……

Using Analog For AI

The semiconductor industry has a firm understanding of digital electronics and has been very successful making it scale. It is predictable, has good yield, and while every development team would like to see improvements, the tooling and automation available for it makes large problems tractable. But scaling……