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Podcast EP333: A Look at the Broad, Worldwide Impact SEMI Has on the Semiconductor Industry with Ajit Manocha

Podcast EP333: A Look at the Broad, Worldwide Impact SEMI Has on the Semiconductor Industry with Ajit Manocha
by Daniel Nenni on 02-27-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, the global industry association serving the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. Throughout his career, Manocha has been a champion of industry collaboration as a critical means of advancing technology for societal and economic prosperity.… Read More


Memory Matters: Signals from the 2025 NVM Survey

Memory Matters: Signals from the 2025 NVM Survey
by Daniel Nenni on 02-27-2026 at 6:00 am

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Non-volatile memory choices are becoming more complex as SoC designs push into advanced nodes, and new requirements driven by AI, new sensor technologies and stringent quality standards.

The second annual 2025 NVM Survey, completed in December, captures a market that still hangs on established technologies but is increasingly… Read More


AI Drives Strong Semiconductor Market in 2025-2026

AI Drives Strong Semiconductor Market in 2025-2026
by Bill Jewell on 02-26-2026 at 1:00 pm

2026 Market Forecast

The global semiconductor market in 2025 was $792 billion, according to WSTS. 2025 was up 25.6% from 2024, the strongest growth since 26.2% in the COVID recovery year 2021. The increase was driven by AI, with Nvidia revenues up 65%. The major memory companies (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Technology, Kioxia and Sandisk) all cited AI… Read More


How Customized Foundation IP Is Redefining Power Efficiency and Semiconductor ROI

How Customized Foundation IP Is Redefining Power Efficiency and Semiconductor ROI
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-26-2026 at 10:00 am

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As computing expands from data centers to edge devices, semiconductor designers face increasing pressure to optimize both performance and energy efficiency. Advanced process nodes continue to provide transistor-level improvements, but scaling alone cannot meet the demands of hyperscale AI infrastructure or ultra-low-power… Read More


Akeana Partners with Axiomise for Formal Verification of Its Super-Scalar RISC-V Cores

Akeana Partners with Axiomise for Formal Verification of Its Super-Scalar RISC-V Cores
by Daniel Nenni on 02-26-2026 at 8:00 am

Akeana Partners with Axiomise

Akeana Inc. announced a key milestone in the development of its advanced RISC-V technology: a successful partnership with Axiomise Limited to formally verify its super-scalar test chip, Alpine. The collaboration highlights the growing importance of formal verification in ensuring correctness, performance, and efficiency

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An AI-Native Architecture That Eliminates GPU Inefficiencies

An AI-Native Architecture That Eliminates GPU Inefficiencies
by Lauro Rizzatti on 02-26-2026 at 6:00 am

VSORA SemiWiki 2026

A recent analysis highlighted by MIT Technology Review puts the energy cost of generative AI into stark perspective. Generating a simple text response from Llama 3.1-405B—a model with 405 billion parameters, the adjustable “knobs” that enable prediction—requires on average 3,353 joules, nearly 1 watt-hour (Wh). Once cooling… Read More


Caspia Technologies Unveils A Breakthrough in RTL Security Verification Paving the Way for Agentic Silicon Security

Caspia Technologies Unveils A Breakthrough in RTL Security Verification Paving the Way for Agentic Silicon Security
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2026 at 10:00 am

Caspia CODAX

In a significant advancement for the semiconductor industry, Caspia Technologies announced the broad availability of CODAx V2026.1, its flagship RTL security analyzer. The new release strengthens early-stage hardware security verification and positions the company to deliver fully agentic workflows that automate vulnerability… Read More


Designing the Future: AI-Driven Multi-Die Innovation in the Era of Agentic Engineering

Designing the Future: AI-Driven Multi-Die Innovation in the Era of Agentic Engineering
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2026 at 8:00 am

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At the 2026 Chiplet Summit, Synopsys presented a bold vision for the future of semiconductor innovation: AI-driven multi-die design powered by agentic intelligence. As the semiconductor industry shifts rapidly toward chiplet-based architectures and 3D stacking, the complexity of design, verification, and system integration… Read More


An Agentic Formal Verifier. Innovation in Verification

An Agentic Formal Verifier. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 02-25-2026 at 6:00 am

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In a break from our academic-centric picks, here we look at an agentic verification flow developed within a semiconductor company. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas.… Read More


Reimagining Compute in the Age of Dispersed Intelligence

Reimagining Compute in the Age of Dispersed Intelligence
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2026 at 10:00 am

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At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, amid debates over cloud scaling and AI cost, DeepComputing CEO Yuning Liang offered a radical view: the future of intelligence isn’t in the cloud at all — it’s already in your pocket. His lunchtime conversation began with iPhones and ended with the death of the operating system. In between, he sketched … Read More