The inaugural event for the 2025 TSMC Technology Symposium recently concluded in Santa Clara, California. This will be followed by events around the world over the next two months. We have summarized information from this event regarding process technology innovation and advanced packaging innovation. Overall, the A14 process… Read More





SNUG 2025: A Watershed Moment for EDA – Part 2
At this year’s SNUG (Synopsys Users Group) conference, Richard Ho, Head of Hardware, OpenAI, delivered the second keynote, titled “Scaling Compute for the Age of Intelligence.” In his presentation, Richard guided the audience through the transformative trends and implications of the intelligence era now unfolding before… Read More
Emerging NVM Technologies: ReRAM Gains Visibility in 2024 Industry Survey
A recent survey of more than 120 anonymous semiconductor professionals offers a grounded view of how the industry is evaluating non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies—and where things may be heading next.
The 2024 NVM Survey, run in late 2024 and promoted through various semiconductor-related platforms and portals including… Read More
Feeding the Beast: The Real Cost of Speculative Execution in AI Data Centers
For decades, speculative execution was a brilliant solution to a fundamental bottleneck: CPUs were fast, but memory access was slow. Rather than wait idly, processors guessed the next instruction or data fetch and executed it ‘just in case.’ Speculative execution traces its lineage back to Robert Tomasulo’s work… Read More
LLMs Raise Game in Assertion Gen. Innovation in Verification
LLMs are already simplifying assertion generation but still depend on human-generated natural language prompts. Can LLMs go further, drawing semantic guidance from the RTL and domain-specific training? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO… Read More
Automotive Functional Safety (FuSa) Challenges
Modern vehicles have become quite sophisticated, like a supercomputer on wheels. They integrate a vast number of electronic components, including thousands of chips, to deliver advanced functionalities ranging from infotainment to critical safety systems. This increasing complexity necessitates a robust approach to … Read More
Scaling AI Infrastructure with Next-Gen Interconnects
At the recent IPSoC Conference in Silicon Valley, Aparna Tarde gave a talk on the importance of Next-Gen Interconnects to scale AI infrastructure. Aparna is a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Synopsys. A synthesis of the salient points from her talk follows.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally… Read More
Siemens Describes its System-Level Prototyping and Planning Cockpit
We all know semiconductor design is getting harder. Much harder when you consider the demands of AI workloads and heterogeneous integration of many chiplets in a single package. This class of system demands co-optimization across the entire design flow. For example, functional verification, thermal analysis, signal and power… Read More
Recent AI Advances Underline Need to Futureproof Automotive AI
The world of AI algorithms continues to advance at a furious pace, and no industry is more dependent on those advances than automotive. While media and analysts continue to debate whether AI will deliver value in business applications, there is no question that it adds value to cars, in safety, some level of autonomous driving, … Read More
Podcast EP285: The Post-Quantum Cryptography Threat and Why Now is the Time to Prepare with Michele Sartori
Dan is joined by Michele Sartori – senior product manager at PQShield. Michele is a software engineer in Computer and Network Security, specializing in product management. He is a passionate tech team leader at the forefront of emerging technologies focused on achieving tangible results.
In this highly informative discussion,… Read More
Emerging NVM Technologies: ReRAM Gains Visibility in 2024 Industry Survey