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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

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


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

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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


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

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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


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

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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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When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives

When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives
by Admin on 04-12-2026 at 12:00 pm

RISC V Now Andes Conference

Marc Evans, Director of Business Development & Marketing, Andes Technology USA

I work at a RISC-V IP company, and I genuinely root for Arm — probably more than most people in my position would admit. Not because I’m confused about who competes with whom, but because Arm’s best move for their shareholders is also… Read More


Podcast EP339: Unique Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Technology from EdgeCortix with Dr. Sakya Dasgupta

Podcast EP339: Unique Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Technology from EdgeCortix with Dr. Sakya Dasgupta
by Daniel Nenni on 04-10-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Dr. Sakya Dasgupta, CEO and founder of EdgeCortix. He is a seasoned technologist who has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence systems for the past two decades. His experience spans public research institutes such as The Max Planck Society and RIKEN, as well as leading corporations like Microsoft… Read More


CEO Interview with Steve Kim of Chips&Media

CEO Interview with Steve Kim of Chips&Media
by Daniel Nenni on 04-10-2026 at 6:00 am

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I’m Steve Kim, the CEO of Chips&Media. I’ve been immersed in the multimedia imaging industry for approximately two decades. Prior to joining Chips&Media, I spent over five years working within handset manufacturing companies. Following more than ten years here at Chips&Media in roles spanning Marketing, Sales,… Read More


yieldHUB Expands Its Impact with New Technology and a New Website

yieldHUB Expands Its Impact with New Technology and a New Website
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-09-2026 at 10:00 am

yieldHUB Expands Its Impact with New Technology and a New Website

yieldHUB is a unique company that focuses on yield optimization for the semiconductor industry. The company aims to bring engineering teams together with a platform that allows sharing of data analytics and knowledge about products to improve yield. This goal is certainly fueled by unifying data from multiple steps in the manufacturing… Read More


NXP Expands Arteris NoC Deployment to Scale Edge AI Architectures

NXP Expands Arteris NoC Deployment to Scale Edge AI Architectures
by Daniel Nenni on 04-09-2026 at 8:00 am

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As edge AI systems become more centralized and compute-dense, on-chip data movement is increasingly the architectural bottleneck. NXP’s expanded deployment of Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) and cache-coherent interconnect IP highlights a broader industry trend: interconnect architecture is now a first-order design … Read More


Architecting Intelligence: The Rise of RISC-V CPUs in Agentic AI Infrastructure

Architecting Intelligence: The Rise of RISC-V CPUs in Agentic AI Infrastructure
by Daniel Nenni on 04-09-2026 at 6:00 am

The rise of RISC V CPUs SiFive

SiFive’s newly announced $400 million Series G financing represents a significant technical inflection point for high-performance RISC-V CPU development targeted at agentic AI data center workloads. The funding, which values the company at $3.65 billion, is specifically intended to accelerate next-generation CPU IP, … Read More