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Crescent Island: Turning Memory Capacity into Agentic AI Throughput

Crescent Island: Turning Memory Capacity into Agentic AI Throughput
by Admin on 08-27-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel Crecesent Island Hot Chips 2026

Intel’s Crescent Island is a discrete data-center GPU designed for agentic AI inference, where performance is constrained by more than matrix arithmetic. Multi-step agents impose latency through repeated model calls and tool interactions, consume large memory capacity for weights and long-context key-value caches, and… Read More


AI-designed Chip Points Toward a Faster Future for Custom Silicon

AI-designed Chip Points Toward a Faster Future for Custom Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 08-27-2026 at 10:00 am

AI Designed Chip Why Redwood Matters

Architect Labs says it has created Redwood, an AI accelerator designed and verified almost entirely by artificial intelligence in less than two weeks. If independently validated and successfully translated from a programmable prototype into manufactured silicon, the project could represent a major change in how computer… Read More


Huawei Can’t Shrink Its Chips, So It’s Folding Them

Huawei Can’t Shrink Its Chips, So It’s Folding Them
by Daniel Nenni on 08-27-2026 at 8:00 am

Huawei Can’t Shrink Its Chips, So It’s Folding Them

On May 25, Huawei semiconductor chief He Tingbo unveiled LogicFolding, an architecture intended to advance chip performance without relying on ever-smaller transistors. Presented alongside Huawei’s “Tau Scaling Law,” the approach prioritizes signal speed over transistor dimensions. It is a genuine engineering response… Read More


The End of “Good Enough” Timing Analysis

The End of “Good Enough” Timing Analysis
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-27-2026 at 6:00 am

The End of Good Enough Timing Analysis

Why Advanced-Node Clock Networks Need More Than Timing Closure

Timing closure has been one of the semiconductor industry’s most reliable measures of design readiness for decades. Static timing analysis (STA) is a critical enabler for this process. It allows analysis of enormous designs across millions of paths, multiple… Read More


Explosive Semiconductor Growth in 2026

Explosive Semiconductor Growth in 2026
by Bill Jewell on 08-26-2026 at 4:00 pm

Explosive Semicoductor Growth 2

The global semiconductor market in the second quarter of 2026 was $368 billion, according to WSTS. 2Q 2026 set records for growth: up 35% from 1Q 2026 and up a phenomenal 104% from 2Q 2025. The previous record growth was set in 1Q 2026: up 25% from the prior quarter and up 79% from a year earlier.

Growth continues to be driven by AI. Memory… Read More


Intel Diamond Rapids: Building Xeon Up, Out, and Through Silicon

Intel Diamond Rapids: Building Xeon Up, Out, and Through Silicon
by Admin on 08-26-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel Diamond Rapids Hot Chips 2026

Akhilesh Kumar & Krishnakanth Sistla, Intel

Diamond Rapids is Intel’s next-generation Xeon processor, designed around the proposition that hyperscale performance increasingly depends on moving, processing, and protecting data as efficiently as executing instructions. The architecture replaces the conventional… Read More


A comeback journey: Rebuilding confidence through formal verification

A comeback journey: Rebuilding confidence through formal verification
by Daniel Nenni on 08-26-2026 at 10:00 am

Lindu K

When Lindu Krishna joined Axiomise after a career break, she wasn’t just relearning technical concepts – she was rebuilding her confidence, redefining what it means to be a woman engineer and quietly becoming the person who can take ownership of complex formal verification blocks. Backed by a culture where nobody sits Read More


Bronco AI at DAC 2026, What a Difference a Year Makes

Bronco AI at DAC 2026, What a Difference a Year Makes
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-26-2026 at 6:00 am

Bronco AI at DAC 2026, What a Difference a Year Makes

During my time at DAC 2026 I felt like I was attending two events. One was the traditional DAC where approaches to designing complex chips using the best tools and methodologies were the focus. There was another focus for the conference. This one was like the traditional DAC with an important difference. Here, the discussion centered… Read More


Synopsys Wins the AI Silicon Brain Drain

Synopsys Wins the AI Silicon Brain Drain
by Daniel Nenni on 08-25-2026 at 4:00 pm

Synopsys Wins the AI SIlicon Brain Drain

The reported move of Amit Gupta, Jeff Dyck, and Ryan Silk from Siemens EDA to Synopsys matters because this is more than a routine transfer of experienced executives and engineers. Together, the three represent a concentrated body of expertise in applying artificial intelligence to semiconductor design—one of the most strategically… Read More


Intel Wildcat Lake: Right-Sizing Silicon Without Sinking Performance

Intel Wildcat Lake: Right-Sizing Silicon Without Sinking Performance
by Admin on 08-25-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel Wildcat Hot Chips 2026

Lance Hacking, Intel

Intel Core Series 3, code-named Wildcat Lake, is a mainstream client system-on-chip derived from the Panther Lake-based Core Ultra Series 3 architecture. Its design objective is not maximum feature density, but broad deployment of current-generation CPU, graphics, AI, memory, security, and connectivity… Read More