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ChipAgents Expands AI Across Chip Design. The Test Is Faster, Verified Results

ChipAgents Expands AI Across Chip Design. The Test Is Faster, Verified Results
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2026 at 10:00 am

chipagents announcement

ChipAgents is expanding its agentic AI platform across digital and analog semiconductor engineering, aiming to connect fragmented design workflows through a common system that can plan tasks, operate engineering tools and evaluate results.

The Santa Clara company says its IC-Star engine combines organizational design … Read More


Why Synopsys’ Role in AMD’s Instinct MI455X Matters for AI Infrastructure

Why Synopsys’ Role in AMD’s Instinct MI455X Matters for AI Infrastructure
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2026 at 8:00 am

Conceptual Multi Die AI GPU Design

Synopsys’ collaboration with AMD on the Instinct MI455X GPU highlights a shift in how advanced AI processors are developed. Increasing performance depends on coordinating compute dies, memory interfaces, packaging, power delivery, and software. According to Synopsys’ announcement, AMD used its design, verification, … Read More


S2C Targets Faster RISC-V Bring-Up With Prototyping and AI

S2C Targets Faster RISC-V Bring-Up With Prototyping and AI
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2026 at 6:00 am

S2C advances RISC V FPGA development

S2C showcased FPGA prototyping and AI-assisted debugging at the sixth RISC-V Summit China, outlining how developers can validate complex processor designs and begin software development before first silicon. Its demonstrations connected three stages of that effort: running substantial RISC-V systems on FPGA hardware,… Read More


Accellera’s FSL 1.0 Gives Functional Safety Data a Common Language

Accellera’s FSL 1.0 Gives Functional Safety Data a Common Language
by Daniel Nenni on 10-26-2026 at 10:00 am

Interconnected functional safety across IP and systems

Accellera Systems Initiative has approved Functional Safety Language Standard 1.0 for release, addressing a persistent challenge in semiconductor development: moving safety information reliably between tools, engineering teams, and companies. Announced October 21, the standard establishes a common language and data… Read More


Inside the Package Powering Modern AI

Inside the Package Powering Modern AI
by Daniel Nenni on 10-26-2026 at 8:00 am

TSMC CoWoS is Critical to AI Chips

TSMC’s CoWoS-S is critical to the artificial intelligence era because it solves the central systems problem facing modern accelerators: computing capability is growing faster than conventional packages can supply data, power, and connectivity. CoWoS-S, meaning Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate with a silicon interposer, … Read More


SEMICON West 2026: After the Toast, the Hard Questions

SEMICON West 2026: After the Toast, the Hard Questions
by Lauro Rizzatti on 10-26-2026 at 6:00 am

Global Semiconductor Market 2026

Champagne is an unusual opening act for a semiconductor conference. At SEMICON West 2026, October 13 to 15, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, it served a purpose. The toast marked an industry that has already crossed $1 trillion in annual revenue, almost four years ahead of earlier projections.

WSTS (World Semiconductor … Read More


CEO Interview with Eric Tsai of Mivium

CEO Interview with Eric Tsai of Mivium
by Daniel Nenni on 10-25-2026 at 11:00 am

Eric Tsai on the GaN starting material

Eric Tsai is Co-Founder and CEO of Mivium, Inc., a US-based materials technology company in Fremont, California developing submicron gallium nitride powder and related wide bandgap materials. He co-founded Mivium in 2022 after a career building and scaling consumer businesses, most recently as Vice President of Marketing… Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky of Disaster Avoidance Experts

CEO Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky of Disaster Avoidance Experts
by Daniel Nenni on 10-25-2026 at 10:00 am

Human Centered AI Adoption at Work

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a consulting and training firm focused on helping organizations adopt AI through employee engagement and practical workflow redesign. He is a behavioral scientist and the author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results… Read More


AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera

AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera
by Daniel Nenni on 10-25-2026 at 9:00 am

AJ Cooper Rewired in minutes

AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera, which developed the first-of-its-kind ‘fluid’ circuit board to make electronics physically programmable. Chips and software have been programmable for decades, but the interconnect between them has stayed fixed. By rewiring itself in real time, Itera’s board challenges

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Executive Interview with Victor Lopez of RaiderChip

Executive Interview with Victor Lopez of RaiderChip
by Daniel Nenni on 10-25-2026 at 8:00 am

Generative AI at the Edge

Victor Lopez is Co-Founder and CTO at RaiderChip, with over 20 years of experience in FPGA and ASIC design. Throughout his career, he has led the development of semiconductor IP and custom hardware solutions licensed by international companies in sectors such as defense, aerospace, automotive and professional video, specializing… Read More