D&R News Alert
July 31st, 2025


Welcome to the issue of July 31st, 2025 of D&R SoC News Alert, our email update to provide you with the latest news and information in the System-On-Chip Community.

Foundry News
■ TSMC’s 2nm Production Is Expected to Break Records, With Capacity Surpassing 3nm & Soaring Demand Driven by Massive Interest From Big Tech
■ Japan unveils $550B investment to reshape global trade, strengthen chip supply chains, and support TSMC’s U.S. expansion under new U.S. tariff deal
New Technology
■ Soitec VP: ‘In the Near Term, Caution Is the Name of the Game’
More info about FD-SOI
■ ‘World’s First’ Photonic AI Processor Installed in Supercomputing Facility
Design platform
■ Mike Yeager: ‘Simulation Is Now Driving Product Design, Not Just Validating It’
448G: Ready or Not, Here it Comes! - Webinar
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Analog IP
■ Perceptia Releases Design Kit for pPLL05 on GlobalFoundries 22FDX Platform
Memory Subsystem
■ Smartphone brands to accelerate LPDDR5X adoption as LPDDR4X supply tightens
Rambus
HBM4 Controller
• Industry’s first HBM4 Memory Controller IP
• High bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, graphics and HPC applications
• Data rate up to 10 Gb/s
• 2.56 TB/s of memory throughput
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RISC-V
■ MIPS and Cyient Collaborate on RISC-V Power Solutions
Automotive
■ SiMa.ai Expands Strategic Collaboration with Synopsys to Accelerate Automotive AI Innovation
■ ADAS and Lidar Technology Revolutionize Automotive Safety in Modern Vehicles
■ Socionext enters into licensing agreement with aiMotive
■ Top Automotive Semiconductor Solutions Powering the Cars of Tomorrow
■ L&T Semiconductors eyes global play with Fujitsu General’s deal, sharp focus on IP and automotive
Artificial Intelligence
■ Renesas Introduces 64-bit RZ/G3E MPU for High-Performance HMI Systems Requiring AI Acceleration and Edge Computing
■ Samsung to produce Tesla's next-gen AI chips in $16.5b foundry breakthrough
Partner News
■ Silvaco to Acquire Mixel, Inc. a Provider of Low-Power, High-Performance Mixed-Signal Connectivity IP Solutions
■ Cadence Found Guilty of Illegally Supplying China Military
Business News
■ ST announces plans to acquire NXP’s MEMS sensors business
■ Taiwan deepens semiconductor cooperation with Europe





What they said at
IP SoC Silicon Valley 25

Post-Quantum Cryptography for IoT: Challenges and Adoption
Kris Kwiatkowski, Cryptography Architect, PQShield

LDPC based error correction solutions for Storage , Wireless and communication markets
Andrei Vityaev,Jaydeep Bhatt, Technical Advisor,Sr. Manager of IP design, Mobiveil Inc.

Meeting Automotive Design, Safety and Security Challenges with an Integrated HSM Solution
Raj Uppala, Senior Director of Marketing & Partnerships, Rambus, Inc.

Functional Safety Solutions for Automotive SoC Design
Kyle Weng, VP of Marketing and Sales, OPENEDGES Technology, Inc.

TSN Ethernet: Architectures and Applications
Alexander Mozgovenko, Product Manager, CAST

ISP Product for Automotive Camera Systems
Chris Wang, VP of Multimedia Technologies and a Member of CTO Office, VeriSilicon Inc.

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