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The Semiconductor Hub (thesemiconhub.com) is a semiconductor knowledge and industry platform that brings market intelligence, product lifecycles, engineering and business tools, a company directory, careers, news and community into one connected place. It went live in a limited first phase on 20 October 2026. Its aim is to help engineers, product managers, founders and students see how technology, economics and the companies behind the silicon c…
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 26, 2026
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Automotive electronics work as one control loop: sensors measure what is happening in and around the car, microcontrollers and processors decide what to do, vehicle networks carry the data and commands, and actuators and power electronics carry out the decision. In an electric vehicle the same electronics also convert and manage the energy that moves the car. No single part is useful on its own; reliability comes from designing the whole chain t…
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The Editor's Desk
October 26, 2026
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An optical power meter measures how much light arrives at a point in a fibre link, using a photodiode that turns optical power into an electrical current, and shows the result in watts or dBm. Paired with a stable light source it also measures optical loss in dB, which is how installers prove a link is within its budget. Accurate results depend on setting the right wavelength, using clean connectors, choosing the correct reference method and usi…
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The Editor's Desk
October 26, 2026
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Originally published on LinkedIn . Advanced packaging is now one of the main ways the semiconductor industry improves system performance. As transistor scaling slows and gets more expensive, the gains increasingly come from how dies are split, stacked and connected inside one package. That makes packaging a design decision taken at the start of architecture work, not a step at the end of manufacturing. Packaging is no longer a footnote in sem…
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Murugavel Ganesan
August 27, 2026
Memory
In-memory compute (IMC) does the arithmetic inside the memory array instead of moving data out to a processor. For AI inference, the weights stay in place, the input activations drive the wordlines, and each bitline adds up the products, so the multiply-accumulate happens where the data lives. It matters because moving a number costs far more energy than computing with it: in published 45 nm figures, a 32-bit DRAM read costs about 640 pJ against…
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Murugavel Ganesan
August 27, 2026
Semiconductor Manufacturing
EMIB and CoWoS are the two leading ways to join several chiplets and HBM stacks in one package. Intel's EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) embeds small silicon bridges in an organic substrate only where two dies meet. TSMC's CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate) places all the dies on a large interposer that carries the wiring between them. In short, EMIB saves silicon and cost and eases warpage, while CoWoS has been the proven …
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Murugavel Ganesan
May 12, 2026
