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·Supply Chain·FREE·8 min read
Mapping the Semiconductor Supply Chain — From Sand to Chip, Who Holds What
One pass through the whole chain that makes a chip — design (EDA/IP), equipment, materials, foundry, OSAT — and why nearly every stage collapses to a handful of firms, read through two formulas: chain availability and HHI.
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·Supply Chain·★ MEMBER·10 min read
EDA Tools from Scratch — Chips Are Written in Software
Nobody hand-places the tens of billions of transistors on a leading-edge chip. Designers write text (RTL), and software compiles it into physical geometry through synthesis, place-and-route, and verification. Here is that pipeline from zero, plus why Synopsys and Cadence became impossible to route around.