Escaping Middle Income Trap–why and how?
Middle income trap refers to failing to transition to high-income status due to rising labor costs and declining competitiveness. As conventional means such as investment in infrastructure and education fail…
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Md. Rokonuzzaman
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Moore’s Law is Dead–Chiplet redefines semiconductor industry
Moore’s law is dead sounds death of a king. By the way, why should we be concerned with this? The Economics of cramming more components onto an integrated circuit gave…
Semiconductor–a technology core transforming innovation, economy and policy
Semiconductor billionaires are everywhere, even in less developed countries. Most of us carry several billion semiconductor devices in our pockets. A typical smartphone has a few billion semiconductor devices–transistors. For…
Winning Chip War–fuelling reinvention waves for changing world order
For increasing dependence on the import of semiconductors, the USA finds it a security issue. Hence, the USA signed the Chips act, triggering Chip War. This act has set aside…
Loss of America’s Inventions–blame semiconductor economics?
Chip War is the tip of an iceberg of loss of America’s inventions. It’s not only the semiconductor chip. America cannot competitively make many products that it invented. Hence, they…
Semiconductor Economics–will Chiplet era slow down the growth?
Over the last few decades, we all got overwhelmed by the growth rate of smartphones, digital cameras, the internet, PC, and many more products. We have also been making projections…
Chiplet Technology — a weak reinvention core?
In the race to increase chip density, integrated device makers (IDMs) like Intel and AMD have lost to TSMC. To regain the lost glory, they have been desperate. To overcome…
Chiplet–for IDMs’ winning, survival or death?
Upon losing the process node battle to the foundry leader TSMC, IDMs like Intel, AMD and others are after Chiplet. Does it sound unfair? Or, is Chiplet a new technology…
Transistor–technology core shaping global trade and power
Unlike a nuclear bomb or jumbo jet, a Transistor is a tiny three-legged device. It’s made from the widely available cheapest material on the earth—sand. But its roles in civilian…
ASML–growing pearl gets caught in Chip War
ASML is a Dutch company headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands. Despite its birth in a wooden hut surrounded by 31 employees in 1984, ASML has risen as the most valued European…
Metaverse Technology–challenges to creative destruction
Facebook founder Zuckerberg has been on a mission to pursue metaverse technologies to reinvent how we meet, greet, socialize and work. But it has been taking a massive toll on…
Meta Faces Metaverse Reality–creative destruction to whom?
Meta has been out there with its Reality labs to take us into a virtual fantasy world–metaverse. Its adventure has been costing billions without showing the possibility of profitable waves…