About The Semiconductor Hub

The Semiconductor Hub is one place for the people and companies of the semiconductor value chain, from design and IP to manufacturing, packaging and test. It brings together industry news, a company directory, jobs and careers, a detailed guide to how chips are developed, engineering tools, reference data and a professional community.

This page explains what you can do on the Hub today, what is free, how content is sourced and labelled, the rules the site is built around, and how to reach us or correct something you find here.

In short

• News articles are free to read in full, with no account. Each story opens on the Hub with a summary, the source's own picture where it offers one, and a link to the original.
• Company and job listings are public, and so is the full glossary. Full company profiles, full job details, the chip lifecycle, tools, guides and other reference data show their title, summary and first section to everyone, and open in full with a free account.
• The Hub has been live since 20 October 2026. Joining is free, and until the end of December 2026 an administrator approves every new registration. Join the Hub.
• Every public page shows its build state, so you can tell checked records from records still being reviewed and from demonstration values.
• Ranking never uses a paid signal, analytics are first party and cookieless, and you can take part under a pseudonymous handle.

Who the Hub is for

The Hub is built for everyone who works with or around chips: engineers and product managers, companies across the value chain, students and job seekers, startup founders, investors, academics and researchers, government and policy professionals, builders, service providers, buyers, press and analysts, recruiters, and curious readers. Each audience has its own starting page with the parts of the Hub that matter most to it. See all audiences.

What you can do on the Hub

News and industry voices

• News: sourced coverage of the industry across design, manufacturing, packaging, tools, equipment and markets, written or vetted by the Hub's editorial team. Stories from other publications open on the Hub with our own summary, the publisher's name and date, and a link to the original. The home page lists the stories sourced most recently.
• Industry voices, Trending and Guides: selected public posts from people in the industry, what readers are looking at now, and evergreen primers and career guides.
• Contribute an article: members can submit guest posts and field reports, and every contribution passes an editorial review before it is published.

Companies and the directory

• Company directory: one searchable directory of semiconductor companies, filterable by segment, country, size, product or service and target market.
• Compare companies side by side, and browse the public companies index.
• Add your company with no account. A reviewer checks the entry, and once it is live you can claim it with your work email and edit it. Every unclaimed profile explains what claiming gives a company and how it works.
• Startups: the startups in the directory, filterable by region and country, with a way to submit your own.
• Explore the industry by regional hub, target market, technology, fab and IP block.

Jobs and careers

• Jobs: semiconductor roles only, searchable by discipline, level, remote policy and country. Every employer is a company in the directory. Some roles are listed by the Hub from a company's own careers page; these are marked as external listings, show where and when they were seen, and you apply on the company's site.
• Early career and internships for students and recent graduates, and Talent Wafer, where hiring runs in scheduled, curated batches of candidates.
• Career Explorer: what each semiconductor role involves, with its responsibilities, skills, tools and open listings. You can compare roles, read the levelling framework and get a guided shortlist of roles that fit you. For members, role pages also show cited pay ranges by country and level, each with its source, its date and how it was collected, such as self-reported or a published survey. They are third-party estimates for guidance, not offers.
• Skills library, workforce data on announced layoffs, closures and expansions, and the Comeback Track for experienced professionals between roles.

The chip lifecycle

The chip lifecycle sets out how a chip is developed, stage by stage and gate by gate.

• The IP lifecycle follows a reusable design block to a versioned release, and the SoC lifecycle follows the full chip from specification through tape-out and bring-up to production and end of life.
• Variants apply the same approach to analog and mixed-signal, chiplet and advanced packaging and FPGA-based products.
• Functions break the work into sub-functions, with what each takes in and produces, the tools, methods and standards it uses, the roles that do it and common pitfalls. Selected functions have step-by-step flows, such as place and route and chip, package and board co-design.
• The hand-off map shows the work each function passes to another, including feedback such as bug reports and change requests, and work products lists what is produced along the way.
• Readiness pages cover architecture specification maturity, silicon readiness by milestone and the IP release guide.
• The Lifecycle Knowledge Hub explains the frameworks the industry runs on, such as new product introduction, yield ramp and qualification.

Tools and calculators

The tools answer questions chip teams ask every week. They include the die per wafer calculator, the yield estimate, the package cost calculator, the chip cost calculator, the MPW shuttle calendar, the tapeout workspace, a unit converter and finance calculators. Each tool says which numbers are your inputs and which are starting points, and pages that rely on sample figures say so.

Reference and data

• Glossary of semiconductor terms and acronyms, open to everyone in full, which also powers the definitions underlined across the site.
• Standards register, with each standard's governing body, current version and access terms.
• This day in history: one sourced milestone from chip history for each day of the year.
• Reference library and Hub Product Codes, an open, versioned classification of value-chain segments and product and service categories.
• Data Catalogue and indicators, the company disclosures calendar, the supply chain chokepoint map and a list of open-source design tools.

Academia, investors and startups

• Academic institutions: engineering colleges, universities and research institutes relevant to semiconductors.
• Investor directory: investors active in semiconductors and deep tech, searchable by thesis, portfolio and region.
• For startup founders and grants and incentives: cost tools, vendors, public funding programmes, investors and standards in one place.

Community and events

• Community boards, each covering one part of the industry, so a question reaches the people who can answer it.
• People: find peers by discipline, organisation and location. Members can opt out of people search.
• Events: one calendar of events hosted on the Hub and recurring industry event series.

Marketplace and services

• Marketplace: post a request for quotation and compare quotes, or browse vetted suppliers and equipment classifieds.
• Services for consulting, test and failure analysis, and Request a Quote to describe what you need once.
• The Legal hub and the legal documents library of standard documents for common semiconductor deals.

For developers and AI tools

The developer documentation describes an API for public directory profiles, job listings, events, the product codes and the Data Catalogue. For AI agents explains how automated tools can read the Data Catalogue.

My Hub

Signed-in members get My Hub: a dashboard, a profile, messages, bookmarks and saved jobs. My lifecycle projects is a private tracker for your own chip or IP projects: mark each lifecycle gate as not started, in progress or passed, and keep private notes on the project and on each gate. Only you can see it.

What is free and what needs an account

• News articles and the glossary are public in full.
• The company directory and job boards are public listings, showing names and short facts.
• Lifecycle pages, tools, guides, reference data, full company profiles and full job details show their title, summary and first section to everyone. A free account opens the rest.
• The free-tier floor lists what stays free on every member and company profile. Students and job seekers are never paywalled.
• Creating an account requires being 18 or older.

Joining

The Hub has been live since 20 October 2026, in a limited first phase. Anyone can read the public pages. Joining is free and takes a couple of minutes: join the Hub. Until the end of December 2026 an administrator approves every new registration, and members-only pages open for you once yours is approved. We would value your feedback.

How content is sourced and labelled

• Every public page declares a build state. Live means real data kept up to date by a named owner. Seed data means real records that have been gathered but not yet checked. Demonstration means the page works but some values are placeholders. Do not treat seed or demonstration values as verified facts.
• Records carry their own dates, and sample data series are marked as samples.
• Editorial content and commercial placements are kept apart, and anything sponsored is labelled. An article that is sponsored or substantially written with AI says so on the article.
• Member posts, comments and profiles are written by members, not by the Hub, and members keep ownership of what they post.
• Industry information on the Hub is not investment advice.

How the Hub is run

The site is built around four rules:

• Money never touches ranking. Ranking never uses a paid or commercial signal. Sponsorship buys a labelled placement, never a position in the results. See the directory.
• A published free-tier floor. Paid options sell convenience, capacity and identity, never access to the truth. A public notice is never paywalled. See the free-tier floor.
• Pseudonymity is real. You can verify that you are a real professional without exposing your real name, and post under a pseudonymous handle.
• No third-party trackers. Analytics are first party and cookieless. See the privacy policy.

Behaviour on the Hub is governed by the code of conduct and the terms of service. The enforcement rules are public, and complaints filed through grievance and takedown are logged and tracked against published acknowledgement and resolution times.

Privacy

The Hub runs no third-party trackers or advertising technology. Analytics are first party, cookieless and kept on our own servers. Addresses are anonymised, and Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are honoured. Your reading is not a product. Members choose who sees each profile field and can opt out of people search. Read the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

Accessibility

The Hub is built and tested against WCAG level AA, in both light and dark themes, with a skip link, full keyboard navigation and a clear heading structure. The accessibility statement says what has been tested and what has not yet been, and gives a direct way to report a barrier.

Suggest a correction

If something on the Hub is wrong or missing, tell us:

• Report an error, a content concern or a takedown request through grievance and takedown. Anyone can file, with or without an account.
• Suggest a correction to the chip lifecycle, suggest an entry for this day in history, or propose a reference page.
• Add a missing company, institution or investor. If your company is already listed, claim it with your work email to keep it accurate.
• Send general comments through feedback.

Contact

For general and press enquiries, see the contact page. To find anything else, use search or the site map.