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Dr. Y.J. Mii joined TSMC in 1994 as a manager at Fab 3 before moving into the company’s research and development organization in 2001. He was appointed Vice President of R&D in 2011 and later advanced to Senior Vice President in November 2016.
Over more than 20 years at TSMC, Dr. Mii has played a central role in advancing and manufacturing… Read More
By Samar Abd El-Hady and Wael ElManhawy
Design teams today face an uncomfortable truth: the specialized tools they need to verify modern ICs can’t reliably share the same design data. As geometries shrink below five nanometers and designs incorporate billions of transistors across multiple dies, no single Electronic… Read More
The world stands at the threshold of a new era in wireless communication as research communities, standards bodies, and technology companies begin shaping what will become sixth generation mobile networks. While fifth generation systems are still expanding across global markets, attention has already shifted toward defining… Read More
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The rapid growth of AI applications in edge devices has created a strong demand for specialized hardware capable of performing high-performance neural network inference under strict power and latency constraints. Traditional CPUs and GPUs often struggle to meet the efficiency requirements of embedded and mobile systems.… Read More
Many complex PCB designs have high data-rate signals like USB, PCIe, DDR and HDMI which call for more thorough verification methods to ensure compliance plus mitigate any signal integrity, power integrity and EMI/EMC issues. Siemens has a methodology that uses automated rule-based electrical verification with an EDA tool,… Read More
Before assuming his current position, Dr. Hou held several key leadership roles. He served as Vice President of Design and Technology Platform from 2011 to 2018, and later as Vice President of Technology Development starting in August 2018. Earlier in his career, from 1997 to 2007, he established TSMC’s technology design kit
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A switch this month to principles behind building effective agentic systems, going beyond simply a new way to stitch together tools, agents and orchestration, to deeper consideration of user experience and how we most effectively blend agentic with human-in-the-loop. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano… Read More
The semiconductor industry is undergoing a profound transformation as system complexity, performance expectations, and time-to-market pressures continue to rise. Traditional monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) designs are increasingly giving way to modular, chiplet-based architectures that enable flexibility, scalability,… Read More
At its 2026 Technology Symposium, TSMC delivered a clear message: the AI era has entered a new phase. The primary constraint is no longer model capability, but the systems required to run those models at scale. Addressing this shift will demand significant advances in semiconductor technology, spanning compute, memory, interconnects,… Read More
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