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Podcast EP341: Details of the Upcoming Microelectronics US Event with Michael Adeniya

Podcast EP341: Details of the Upcoming Microelectronics US Event with Michael Adeniya
by Daniel Nenni on 04-15-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: Events, IP, Semiconductor Services, Silicon Catalyst

Daniel is joined by Michael Adeniya, Group Director, Microelectronics Global and a key architect behind the launch of Microelectronics US. Mike is focused on uniting the “Silicon Hills” ecosystem to address the practical engineering bottlenecks of the post CHIPS Act era. By fostering strategic partnerships … Read More

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Effective Defense Against Hacks at the Edge

Effective Defense Against Hacks at the Edge
by Bernard Murphy on 04-15-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: PQShield, Quantum Computing, Security

Hacker attacking edge devices

IoT permeates every aspect of our lives, in payment systems, access authorization, vehicles, utilities, factories, hospitals, and in so many other fields. Which makes these systems attractive targets for hacking and social disruption while also challenging to protect given the highly constrained resources that many such… Read More

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Hardening the Silicon: Why Analog Anti-Tamper IP is the New Security Baseline

Hardening the Silicon: Why Analog Anti-Tamper IP is the New Security Baseline
by Daniel Nenni on 04-14-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: Agile Analog, IP

Agile Analog security image

In today’s increasingly connected world, there are billions of SoCs, powering everything from automotive ECUs to industrial IoT sensors and processing sensitive data. While software-level security is taken seriously, hardware-level vulnerabilities have often been an afterthought. As hackers are now using more complex… Read More

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Renesas Scalable Automotive SoC Design Using Arteris NoC

Renesas Scalable Automotive SoC Design Using Arteris NoC
by Daniel Nenni on 04-14-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: Arteris, Automotive, IP

Arteris IP Renesas ADAS SoC

The increasing complexity of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving architectures has driven a transition from traditional bus-based interconnects to scalable Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabrics. Renesas’ next-generation R-Car automotive SoC platforms adopt Arteris FlexNoC interconnect intellectual… Read More

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Calibrating Quantum Computing Activity in Financial Services

Calibrating Quantum Computing Activity in Financial Services
by Bernard Murphy on 04-14-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Quantum Computing

Quantum portfolio optimization

I was invited to listen in on an event hosted by Fujitsu and Quantum Insider on the reality of Quantum Computing (QC) in financial services today. This market is a good test for QC since multiple possible high value applications have been suggested. The panel was chaired by Brian Lenehan, (Founder and Chair, Quantum Strategy Institute),… Read More

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NoC Matters: Designing the Backbone of Next-Gen AI SoCs

NoC Matters: Designing the Backbone of Next-Gen AI SoCs
by Daniel Nenni on 04-13-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: Aion Silicon, Semiconductor Services

Arteris NoC Hardware

Modern SoC design for artificial intelligence workloads has fundamentally shifted the role of the network-on-chip (NoC) from a simple connectivity fabric to a primary architectural determinant of system performance, power, and scalability. As compute density increases and heterogeneous accelerators proliferate, data… Read More

Podcast EP340: A Review of the Q4 2025 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines

Podcast EP340: A Review of the Q4 2025 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 04-13-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: EDA

Daniel is joined by Dr. Wally Rhines, CEO of Silvaco, to discuss the Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. Wally is the industry coordinator for the EDA data collection program called EDMD. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all electronic design automation companies… Read More

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From Wooden Boards to White Gloves: How FPGA Prototyping and Emulation Became Two Worlds of Verification… and How the Convergence Is Unfolding

From Wooden Boards to White Gloves: How FPGA Prototyping and Emulation Became Two Worlds of Verification… and How the Convergence Is Unfolding
by Lauro Rizzatti on 04-13-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: EDA, Synopsys

From Wooden Boards to White Gloves Table 1 (1)

FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation originated from two independent demands that emerged at roughly the same time, namely, the necessity to implement digital designs in reconfigurable hardware. This was conceivable given the newly introduced field programmable gate array (FPGA) device.

Yet from the very beginning they… Read More

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Who’s Buying America’s Foundry Future?

Who’s Buying America’s Foundry Future?
by Jonah McLeod on 04-12-2026 at 2:00 pm
Categories: Foundries, Intel Foundry

Uncle Sam (2)

Everyone has been treating Intel as a turnaround story. What if it’s not a scheduled airline — but a charter, and Musk is the one filing the flight plan? Not just Tesla. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle are all designing their own silicon now, and their AI infrastructure depends on it. And yet they remain dependent… Read More

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CEO Interview with Dr. Hardik Kabaria of Vinci

CEO Interview with Dr. Hardik Kabaria of Vinci
by Daniel Nenni on 04-12-2026 at 12:00 pm
Categories: 3D IC, CEO Interviews

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Hardik Kabaria is the founder and CEO of Vinci, a frontier lab building systems that make physical reality continuously computable.

While software has become programmable, physics has remained episodic—accessed through discrete simulations and approximations. Vinci is changing that. Under Kabaria’s leadership, the company

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