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Podcast EP330: An Overview of DVCon U.S. 2026 with Xiaolin Chen

Podcast EP330: An Overview of DVCon U.S. 2026 with Xiaolin Chen
by Daniel Nenni on 02-06-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: Accellera, EDA, Events, Semiconductor Services, Synopsys

Daniel is joined by Xiaolin Chen, Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Formal Solutions at Synopsys. She has over 20 years of experience applying formal technology in verification and partnering with customers to identify opportunities where formal methods are best suited to solve complex verification challenges.… Read More

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The Risk of Not Optimizing Clock Power

The Risk of Not Optimizing Clock Power
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-06-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: ClockEdge, EDA

The Risk of Not Optimizing Clock Power

Clock power is rarely the issue teams expect to limit advanced-node designs. Yet in many chips today, over-driven clock networks quietly consume disproportionate power, reduce thermal headroom, and can constrain achievable frequency. And all while passing traditional sign-off checks and often remaining locked in through… Read More

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Quadric’s Recent Momentum & Funding Success

Quadric’s Recent Momentum & Funding Success
by Daniel Nenni on 02-05-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: IP, Quadric

Quadric Chimera GPNPU

Quadric®, Inc., headquartered in Burlingame, California, is accelerating its position as a leading provider of programmable AI inference processor intellectual property (IP) and development tools for on-device AI workloads. The company announced an oversubscribed $30 million Series C funding round, bringing total capital… Read More

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Beyond Transformers. Physics-Centric Machine Learning for Analog

Beyond Transformers. Physics-Centric Machine Learning for Analog
by Bernard Murphy on 02-05-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, EDA, Mach42

Physics based learning

Physical AI is an emerging hot trend, popularly associated with robotics though it has much wider scope than compute systems interacting with the physical world. For any domain in which analysis rests on differential equations (foundational in physics), the transformer-based systems behind LLMs are not the best fit for machine… Read More

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2026 Outlook with Abhijeet Chakraborty VP, R&D Engineering at Synopsys

2026 Outlook with Abhijeet Chakraborty VP, R&D Engineering at Synopsys
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Synopsys

Abhijeet Headshot

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

My name’s Abhijeet Chakraborty and I’m Vice President of Engineering at Synopsys. I led the development of Synopsys Design Compiler-NXT, the industry’s leading synthesis product, and now oversee the company’s multi-die and 3DIC product portfolio. Throughout my career,… Read More

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The Launch of RISC-V Now! A New Chapter in Open Computing

The Launch of RISC-V Now! A New Chapter in Open Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: Andes Technology, Events, IP, RISC-V

RISC Now Andes

On February 3, 2026, Andes Technology officially announced the launch of RISC-V Now!, a new global conference series designed around the next phase of RISC-V adoption: real-world deployment and commercial scaling. This initiative marks a shift from exploratory and research-focused events toward practical, production-oriented… Read More

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NanoIC Extends Its PDK Portfolio with First A14 Logic and eDRAM Memory PDK

NanoIC Extends Its PDK Portfolio with First A14 Logic and eDRAM Memory PDK
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Foundries, TSMC

Nano IC TSMC Process Roadmap

NanoIC has announced a major expansion of its process design kit portfolio with the introduction of its first A14 logic and embedded eDRAM  memory PDK. This milestone reflects the company’s growing role in enabling advanced semiconductor design at cutting-edge technology nodes and addresses increasing industry demand for… Read More

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2026 Outlook with Coby Hanoch of Weebit Nano

2026 Outlook with Coby Hanoch of Weebit Nano
by Daniel Nenni on 02-03-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: IP, Weebit Nano

Coby Hanoch CEO Weebit embedded ReRAM RRAM NVM IP module Flash

Coby Hanoch is the CEO of Weebit Nano. Coby has nearly 45 years’ of experience in the semiconductor and related industries, including engineering, engineering management, sales, and executive roles. Coby was previously CEO at PacketLight Networks, and held VP Worldwide Sales roles at both Verisity and Jasper Design Automation.… Read More

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How Switzerland Built a Global Semiconductor Edge by Thinking Smaller

How Switzerland Built a Global Semiconductor Edge by Thinking Smaller
by Admin on 02-03-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: AI

Alain Serge Porret Headshot

By Alain-Serge Porret, Vice President, Integrated & Wireless Systems, CSEM

Since ramping up several years ago, the global semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) race has been driven by scale, from building larger data centers, developing bigger and more powerful models, and with them, increasingly complex and… Read More

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The 71st International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025)

The 71st International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025)
by Daniel Nenni on 02-03-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: 3D IC, AI, Events

IEDM 2025 SemiWiki

It is hard to believe this conference is older than most all of the participants, including myself. The amount of history behind this conference is amazing. Back in 1955 the meeting began as the Electron Devices Meeting (EDM), organized by what later became the IEEE Electron Devices Society. Its core purpose was to bring together… Read More