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Avestra: Agentic AI for SystemVerilog Assertion Generation

Avestra: Agentic AI for SystemVerilog Assertion Generation
by Daniel Nenni on 08-24-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Modern ASIC, SoC, CPU, and GPU development depends on verification processes that detect subtle functional defects before tapeout. SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) are particularly important because they encode temporal design intent: how signals, states, and transactions must behave across clock cycles. Unlike conventional… Read More


RISC-V at Sixteen: From Modular ISA to Standardized Platforms at Hot Chips 2026

RISC-V at Sixteen: From Modular ISA to Standardized Platforms at Hot Chips 2026
by Admin on 08-24-2026 at 12:00 pm

RISC V at 16 Hot Chips

RISC-V has evolved from a Berkeley research architecture into a global instruction-set standard spanning embedded controllers, application processors, accelerators, and emerging servers. Its defining technical characteristic is not merely openness, but disciplined modularity. Four ratified base ISAs—RV32I, RV64I,… Read More


Hot Chips: Evolving Memory Architectures for Artificial Intelligence

Hot Chips: Evolving Memory Architectures for Artificial Intelligence
by Admin on 08-24-2026 at 10:00 am

Evolving Memory Architectures for AI Hot CHips 2026

Artificial intelligence performance is increasingly constrained by memory rather than arithmetic throughput. Scaling laws show that model quality improves when parameter count, training data, and compute grow together, but this balance fails when processors cannot obtain operands quickly enough. Contemporary accelerators… Read More


Synopsys Cloud at DAC 2026

Synopsys Cloud at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 08-24-2026 at 8:00 am

Synopsys Cloud FlexEDA

Cloud-based EDA has been around for awhile now, so at #DAC2026 I met with Vikram Bhatia, Executive Director of Synopsys Cloud to see what’s new with their offering. His background includes stints at Sun, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle and NetApp. The Synopsys Cloud FlexEDA lets designs teams run their EDA solutions inside of a web browser,… Read More


The Sky’s the Limit: SiFive’s BigSky Brings RISC-V to the Datacenter

The Sky’s the Limit: SiFive’s BigSky Brings RISC-V to the Datacenter
by Daniel Nenni on 08-24-2026 at 6:00 am

The Sky’s the Limit SiFive’s BigSky Brings RISC V to the Datacenter

SiFive is bringing RISC-V closer to mainstream datacenter deployment with the BigSky SF-2U870, an enterprise-grade development server designed for hyperscalers, semiconductor companies, software vendors, and ecosystem partners. Announced in Santa Clara on August 24, 2026, alongside Hot Chips, the rackable 2U platform… Read More


What Hot Chips 2026 Tells Us About What Silicon Valley Is Actually Building

What Hot Chips 2026 Tells Us About What Silicon Valley Is Actually Building
by Jonah McLeod on 08-23-2026 at 6:00 pm

What Hot Chips Tells us 2026

Here’s what the presentations selected for the 2026 Hot Chips Conference tell us about what Silicon Valley companies are doing these days.

The conference, running this week at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, doesn’t publish detailed abstracts ahead of time, but the program itself, just the lineup of who’s presenting what, … Read More


Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering

Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering
by Admin on 08-23-2026 at 2:00 pm

Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering

Extreme-ultraviolet lithography is essential for manufacturing advanced semiconductor devices, but its continued scaling presents a difficult materials problem. Photoresists must simultaneously provide high resolution, low exposure dose, limited line-edge or linewidth roughness, and extremely low defectivity. … Read More


CEO Interview with Ajit Prabhu of Quest Global

CEO Interview with Ajit Prabhu of Quest Global
by Daniel Nenni on 08-23-2026 at 12:00 pm

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Ajit Prabhu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quest Global, a global engineering services company driven by a single purpose: to be the most trusted partner for solving the world’s hardest engineering problems. Under his leadership, Quest Global has built long-term, sustainable partnerships and delivers end-to-end engineering… Read More


The Twelve-Month Rule Does Not Describe a New Fab

The Twelve-Month Rule Does Not Describe a New Fab
by Admin on 08-23-2026 at 10:00 am

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By Nikhil Shah

Capital spending is often treated as if it becomes semiconductor capacity about twelve months later. That can be a useful rule for equipment installed in an existing fab. It is a poor description of a new fab built from the ground up.

I tested the distinction using five advanced-node projects in the United States where… Read More


CEO Interview with Sumeet Kumar of Innatera

CEO Interview with Sumeet Kumar of Innatera
by Daniel Nenni on 08-23-2026 at 8:00 am

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Dr. Sumeet Kumar is CEO of Innatera, the pioneering Dutch neuromorphic processor company. Dr. Kumar was previously with Intel and Indrion Technologies, and has spent his career in microprocessor development. He co-founded Innatera in 2018 as a spin off from the Delft University of Technology.

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