I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design.
From my perspective, Defacto’s technology is designed to improve productivity and design quality by enabling … Read More
Keysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference this year as a Silver Sponsor and an “I LOVE DAC” sponsor, bringing its Design Engineering Software portfolio to Booth #927 at DAC 2026, which runs July 26-29 in Long Beach, Calif. The Keysight team will be on-site Monday through Wednesday … Read More
Tuple Technologies develops AI-powered infrastructure and operations platforms specifically designed for semiconductor companies. The company’s solutions help engineering organizations simplify CAD infrastructure management, optimize cloud resources, improve security and compliance, and reduce operational… Read More
Dr. Il Park is the Founder and CEO of Primemas Inc. Prior to founding Primemas, he was Vice President at SK hynix where he led memory solutions, design innovation, and CAE. Prior to that he was the head of the SOC architecture development and engineering team at Samsung Electronics. Earlier in his career, Il was at IBM T.J. Watson Research… Read More
Mohit Gupta founded TYLsemi to build chiplet-based intelligent power and connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure—an area where custom silicon has long been underserved. TYLsemi exists to provide the foundational chiplet platform that enables tailored custom silicon solutions for the evolving needs of AI infrastructure.… Read More
Daniel is joined by Andrew Levy, Vice President of Business Development, IP & ASIC at Alphacore. Andrew leads strategic growth initiatives, customer engagement, technology commercialization, and business development activities for the company’s semiconductor IP, ASIC design services, and advanced microelectronics… Read More
Madhulima Tewari is the CEO and founder of VerifAIX. After two decades building EDA tools, taping out chips, and working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications, she teamed up with chip design and methodology leaders and university researchers to build an agentic AI system aimed at helping… Read More
There has been talk at the latest conferences about TSMC customers taking wafers to Intel for packaging. The question is why? Is it competitive pricing? Capacity? Supply chain diversity? CC Wei was asked about this during the last investor call and his perfect response was:
Jeff Su: I guess very simply put, EMIB-T, in his view, is… Read More
On the latest investor call the big story was the increase in CAPEX for 2026 and the expected CAPEX for 2027. TSMC raised the CAPEX ceiling for 2026 from US$56 billion to US$64 billion. My guess would be US$64 billion will be spent if not more. We have been discussing this in the SemiWiki Forum and my guess for the 2027 TSMC CAPEX is an incredible… Read More
Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA), a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms. Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL and … Read More
TSMC CoWoS versus Intel EMIB Semiconductor Packaging