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Podcast EP298: How Hailo is Bringing Generative AI to the Edge with Avi Baum

Podcast EP298: How Hailo is Bringing Generative AI to the Edge with Avi Baum
by Daniel Nenni on 07-18-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Avi Baum, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Hailo, an AI-focused chipmaker that develops specialized AI processors for enabling data-center-class performance on edge devices. Avi has over 17 years of experience in system engineering, signal processing, algorithms, and telecommunications while… Read More


CEO Interview with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI

CEO Interview with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI
by Daniel Nenni on 07-18-2025 at 6:00 am

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Shelly Henry is the CEO and Co-Founder of MooresLabAI, bringing over 25 years of semiconductor industry experience. Prior to founding MooresLabAI, Shelly led silicon teams at Microsoft and ARM, successfully delivering chips powering billions of devices worldwide. Passionate about driving efficiency and innovation, Shelly… Read More


New Cooling Strategies for Future Computing

New Cooling Strategies for Future Computing
by Daniel Payne on 07-17-2025 at 10:00 am

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Power densities on chips increased from 50-100 W/cm2 in 2010 to 200 W/cm2 in 2020, creating a significant challenge in removing and spreading heat to ensure reliable chip operation. The DAC 2025 panel discussion on new cooling strategies for future computing featured experts from NVIDIA Research, Cadence, ESL/EPFL, the University… Read More


DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring

DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-17-2025 at 6:00 am

DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring

As AI models grow exponentially, the infrastructure supporting them is struggling under the pressure. At DAC, one company stood out with a solution that doesn’t just monitor chips, it empowers them to adapt in real time to these new workload requirements.

Unlike traditional telemetry or post-silicon debug tools, proteanTecs… Read More


U.S. Imports Shifting

U.S. Imports Shifting
by Bill Jewell on 07-16-2025 at 2:00 pm

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Our Semiconductor Intelligence June Newsletter showed how U.S. imports of smartphones have been on a downward trend since January 2025, led by China. Other key electronic products have also experienced sharp drops in U.S. imports from China.F

U.S. smartphone imports in May 2025 were $3.03 billion, up slightly from April but … Read More


Sophisticated soundscapes usher in cache-coherent multicore DSP

Sophisticated soundscapes usher in cache-coherent multicore DSP
by Don Dingee on 07-16-2025 at 10:00 am

A Tensilica 2 to 8 core SMP DSP adds cache-coherence for high-end audio processing and other applications

Digital audio processing is evolving into an art form, particularly in high-end applications such as automotive, cinema, and home theater. Innovation is moving beyond spatial audio technologies to concepts such as environmental correction and spatial confinement. These sophisticated soundscapes are driving a sudden increase… Read More


A Quick Look at Agentic/Generative AI in Software Engineering

A Quick Look at Agentic/Generative AI in Software Engineering
by Bernard Murphy on 07-16-2025 at 6:00 am

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Agentic methods are hot right now since single LLM models seem limited to point tool applications. Each such application is impressive but still a single step in the more complex chain of reasoning tasks we want to automate, where agentic methods should shine. I have been hearing that software engineering (SWE) teams are advancing… Read More


Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs

Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs
by Admin on 07-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Mark Tawfik

Parasitic extraction is essential in integrated circuit (IC) design, as it identifies unintended resistances, capacitances, and inductances that can impact circuit performance. These parasitic elements arise from the layout and interconnects of the circuit and can affect signal integrity, power consumption,… Read More


Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem

Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-15-2025 at 6:00 am

Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem

As the new name reflects, chip and system design were a major focus at DAC. So was the role of AI to enable those activities. But getting an AI-enabled design flow to work effectively across chip, subsystem and system-level design presents many significant challenges. One important one is effectively managing the vast amount of… Read More


Double SoC prototyping performance with S2C’s VP1902-based S8-100

Double SoC prototyping performance with S2C’s VP1902-based S8-100
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2025 at 10:00 am

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As AI, HPC, and networking applications demand ever-higher compute and bandwidth, SoC complexity continues to grow. Traditional 50M ASIC equivalent gate FPGA prototyping systems have become less effective for full-chip verification at scale. Addressing this challenge, S2C introduced the Prodigy S8-100 Logic system, powered… Read More