Industry Expert Blogs
The Re-Emergence of Semiconductor IP: An Optimistic View of 2011Gabe on EDA - Charlie Cheng, Chief Executive Officer, Kilopass Technologies Inc.Dec. 16, 2010 |
It took two high-profile acquisitions in mid 2010 to make the semiconductor IP market segment hot again, an outlook that will continue now and well into 2011. In fact, I predict that the U.S. semiconductor business model will be transformed from fabless companies designing chips and building them off-shore to a model where they will license their core technologies to larger semiconductor companies that have already perfected the process.