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U.S. Electronics Production Growing

U.S. Electronics Production Growing
by Bill Jewell on 10-29-2025 at 2:00 pm

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U.S. electronics production has been on an accelerating growth trend over the last ten months. Three-month average change versus a year ago (3/12 change) has increased from 0.4% in October 2024 to 6.2% in August 2025. Japan’s 3/12 change has been positive since November 2024, but has been decelerating for most of 2025, reaching… Read More


Failure Prevention with Real-Time Health Monitoring: A proteanTecs Innovation

Failure Prevention with Real-Time Health Monitoring: A proteanTecs Innovation
by Daniel Nenni on 10-29-2025 at 10:00 am

proteanTecs RTHM OIP 2025

In the complex world of semiconductors, reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) have become paramount, especially as devices shrink to nanoscale geometries like 2nm. At the recent 2025 TSMC OIP Forum Noam Brousard, VP of Solutions Engineering at proteanTecs, presented “Failure Prevention with Real-Time… Read More


Inference Acceleration from the Ground Up

Inference Acceleration from the Ground Up
by Lauro Rizzatti on 10-29-2025 at 6:00 am

VSORA AI CHip

VSORA, a pioneering high-tech company, has engineered a novel architecture designed specifically to meet the stringent demands of AI inference—both in datacenters and at the edge. With near-theoretical performance in latency, throughput, and energy efficiency, VSORA’s architecture breaks away from legacy designs optimized… Read More


AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Revolutionizing Semiconductor Design

AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Revolutionizing Semiconductor Design
by Daniel Nenni on 10-28-2025 at 10:00 am

AI Driven DRC Productivity Optimization Siemens AMD TSMC

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the integration of AI into DRC workflows, as showcased in the Siemens EDA presentation at the 2025 TSMC OIP. Titled “AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization,” this initiative, led by Siemens EDA’s David Abercrombie alongside AMD’s… Read More


Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in Verification

Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 10-28-2025 at 6:00 am

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GPUs have been proposed before to accelerate logic simulation but haven’t quite met the need yet. This is a new attempt based on emulating emulator flows. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series… Read More


Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Newport Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence

Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Newport Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2025 at 10:00 am

TekStart Newport Chip SemiWiki

One of the more in interesting companies I met at the AI Infra Summit was a company known to me for some time. The most interesting part was the chip they are in the process of taping out; It is a high-performance, ultra-low-power AI processor purpose-built for edge computing. It is claimed to deliver “the processing muscle … Read More


A Tour of Advanced Data Conversion with Alphacore

A Tour of Advanced Data Conversion with Alphacore
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-27-2025 at 6:00 am

A Tour of Advanced Data Conversion with Alphacore

There is always a lot of buzz about advanced AI workloads at trade shows. How to train them and how to run them. Advanced chip and multi-die designs are how AI is brought to life, so it was a perfect fit for discussion at a show. But there is another side of this discussion. Much of the work going on in AI workloads has to do with processing… Read More


CAST Simplifies RISC-V Embedded Processor IP Adoption with New Catalyst Program

CAST Simplifies RISC-V Embedded Processor IP Adoption with New Catalyst Program
by Daniel Nenni on 10-26-2025 at 10:00 am

CAST IP SemiWiki RISC V Summit 2025

In a move poised to accelerate the integration of open-source processor architectures into resource-constrained devices, semiconductor IP provider CAST, Inc. unveiled its Catalyst™ Program at the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California. This initiative addresses a persistent pain point for embedded system developers:… Read More


CEO Interview with Alex Demkov of La Luce Cristallina

CEO Interview with Alex Demkov of La Luce Cristallina
by Daniel Nenni on 10-26-2025 at 8:00 am

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Alex Demkov is co-founder and CEO of La Luce Cristallina. He is a distinguished figure in the field of materials physics, serving as a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. With a prolific career marked by notable achievements, Alex boasts an impressive portfolio of 10 U.S. patents and many patent applications, showcasing… Read More


Podcast EP313: How proteanTecs Optimizes Production Test

Podcast EP313: How proteanTecs Optimizes Production Test
by Daniel Nenni on 10-24-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Alex Burlak is Vice President of Test & Analytics at proteanTecs. With combined expertise in production testing and data analytics of ICs and system products, Alex joined proteanTecs in October, 2018. Before joining the company, Alex held a Senior Director of Interconnect and Silicon Photonics Product… Read More