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
Synopsys and AMD Honored for Generative and Agentic AI Vision, Leadership, and ImpactSynopsys and AMD were recently selected by the…Read More
The Foundry Model Is Morphing — AgainWhen Morris Chang left Texas Instruments in 1983 to found TSMC, he was…Read MoreBeyond Transformers. Physics-Centric Machine Learning for Analog
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
2026 Outlook with Abhijeet Chakraborty VP, R&D Engineering at Synopsys
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
The Launch of RISC-V Now! A New Chapter in Open Computing
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
NanoIC Extends Its PDK Portfolio with First A14 Logic and eDRAM Memory PDK
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
2026 Outlook with Coby Hanoch of Weebit Nano
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
How Switzerland Built a Global Semiconductor Edge by Thinking Smaller
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
The 71st International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025)
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
Advances in ATPG from Synopsys
I first learned about ATPG – Automatic Test Program Generation in the 1980s at Silicon Compilers, then continued in the 90s at Viewlogic with the Sunrise tools, so it was illuminating to get an update from Synopsys on their ATPG technology by attending a webinar. Synopsys over the years has developed a family of test tools, shown … Read More
TSMC’s 2026 AZ Exclusive Experience Day: Bridging Careers and Semiconductor Innovation
In February of 2026, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will host the TSMC AZ Exclusive Experience Day in Phoenix, Arizona, offering selected participants a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing organizations in the world. The event will serve as an immersive… Read More





The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again