Ohad Agami is the co-founder and CEO of Hiveware, a semiconductor verification company he started in Tel Aviv in 2023 with CTO Yaniv Pascal. He has a systems-focused engineering background with deep experience in semiconductor architectures and complex verification flows, built at the AI chip company Hailo and earlier in Israel’s… Read More
Silicon Creations at DAC 2026: Solutions for clocking, SerDes, and sensing in 2nm (and beyond)Silicon Creations provides world-class IP for precision and…Read More
The Architecture of Success: Why a Unified Semiconductor IP Strategy Is the Foundation of Modern SoC DesignAs architects push toward advanced nodes and increasingly…Read More
Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into MinutesAI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and…Read More
Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven DesignKeysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC, The Chips…Read MorePodcast EP357: How Gonka is Changing the Way AI is Accessed with David Liberman
Daniel is joined by David Liberman, a Los Angeles-based futurist, serial entrepreneur, investor, and former Director of Products at Snap, as well as the co-creator of the Gonka protocol. Gonka is a decentralized protocol that connects people who need computing power for AI with operators who provide GPU hardware. Its goal is … Read More
TSMC CoPoS Versus Intel EMIB Semiconductor Packaging
TSMC’s CoPoS, generally described as Chip-on-Panel-on-Substrate, and Intel’s EMIB, or Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, address the same strategic problem: integrating increasingly large, heterogeneous chiplet systems. However, they attack different physical constraints. CoPoS is an emerging panel-level … Read More
The Silicon Shield Has Never Been Stronger!
The “Silicon Shield” describes the idea that Taiwan’s central role in advanced semiconductor manufacturing raises the economic and strategic cost of military action against the island. The shield is not a literal defense system. It is a form of structural deterrence created by technological concentration: governments and… Read More
PCs & Smartphones Supply Constrained
Global unit shipments of PCs and smartphones were both down versus a year ago in the 2nd quarter of 2026, according to IDC. PCs were down 4.9% and smartphones were down 6.7%. Both PCs and smartphones showed growth in 2024 and 2025. IDC is predicting an 11.3% decline in PCs and a 13.9% decline in smartphones in 2026.
What is causing the… Read More
Agentrys Designs a Real Chip with its Multi-Agent Workforce
The face of EDA is changing. For forty years, this industry has focused on optimizing algorithms for design, verification and implementation of chips. That work has delivered some ground-breaking innovations. Logic synthesis is a good example. There are so many more. Thanks to the innovations commonly referred to as Frontier… Read More
Must-See DAC Panel – Build vs Buy: Who Owns the Intelligence Behind Tomorrow’s Chips?
This year, DAC will be buzzing about AI from every direction. The debate of build vs. buy will also be a popular topic. And the debate of who owns the intellectual property embodied in chip designs and how to control it will also get a significant amount of airtime. These are all interesting and compelling discussion points. It turns… Read More
BRONCO AI: WIN THE RACE TO TAPE-OUT | BOOTH 935
Bronco AI builds AI agents for chip design and verification. Our goal is to get teams from spec to RTL-freeze as fast as possible by surfacing the nastiest bugs sooner and fixing them faster.
Our agents work the way strong engineers do: they read the spec, form hypotheses, run experiments, and chase a problem until it is root-caused,… Read More
The Other Side of Bug Localization
Automated debugging – starting from an unexpected behavior to find a bug root-cause or a small set of possible root-causes – is a hot topic now that agentic systems are playing a bigger role in automation. Unsurprising since debug remains the most time and resource-consuming aspect of verification, in turn the most time/resource-consuming… Read More
Agentrys Weighs in on LLM Benchmarking for Chip Design at DAC 2026
Si2 is conducting quite a few sessions at DAC this year covering everything from power model standards to agentic AI. There is one session that is a bit different, focusing on LLM benchmarking. Since AI is popping up everywhere, the ability to accurately assess and measure the quality of new models becomes more important. That’s… Read More



Podcast EP357: How Gonka is Changing the Way AI is Accessed with David Liberman