The next generation of electronic systems starts with conversations between people solving difficult design challenges. For companies developing EDA tools, semiconductor IP, design services, and supporting technologies, DAC 2027 offers an opportunity to turn those conversations into customer relationships, partnerships,… Read More
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WEBINAR: Porting, Analysing & Optimising AI Models onto Edge GPUsModern AI models are opening up new possibilities…Read MoreCTO Interview Kevin Robinson, VP of Operations, yieldHUB
Kevin Robinson is VP of Operations at yieldHUB, where he leads global operations, program delivery, and customer execution. He oversees structured onboarding, customer delivery, and the scalability of yieldHUB’s operations worldwide.
Kevin brings more than 25 years of semiconductor experience across product and test engineering.… Read More
Semiconductors and SOI: From Bulk Wafers to Engineered Substrates
1. Why the substrate matters
Every transistor sits in, or on, a few hundred nanometres of crystal; the rest of the wafer is mechanical support and, often, a liability. Silicon won because it combines a moderate bandgap (1.12 eV), a native oxide (SiO2) of excellent quality, and the ability to be grown as near-perfect single crystals… Read More
NVHBM: Can Custom HBM Change Who Builds the Memory Stack?
NVIDIA’s NVHBM could change more than how memory connects to an AI accelerator. It could also change how the semiconductor industry divides responsibility for designing, manufacturing, and qualifying high-bandwidth memory.
According to October 18 reporting from Seoul Economic Daily, NVIDIA has asked Samsung, SK … Read More
Why Video Processing Matters for the Next Generation of Robots
Mobilint has begun mass production of next-generation edge AI chips that incorporate video codec technology from Chips&Media, the companies announced on November 4. The South Korean partners are targeting robotics applications, including humanoids, where several cameras can generate more video than a system can easily… Read More
CXO Interview with Solaiman Rahim of ChipAgents
Dr. Solaiman Rahim is a multidisciplinary technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation in the chip automation space at the intersection of systems, semiconductors, high-performance computing, and AI. As Chief Product Officer at ChipAgents, he leads the scaling of the Agentic and Native AI platform… Read More
CPO’s Next Challenge: Turning Optical Performance into Manufacturable Systems
Why integration boundaries, assembly strategies, and manufacturing yield must be engineered together
The Shift from Optical Performance to Manufacturing Scale
Co-packaged optics (CPO) is moving beyond laboratory demonstrations toward commercial deployment in AI infrastructure. As switch bandwidth continues to increase,… Read More
Weebit Nano launches Matrix research program to explore AI computing inside memory
Weebit Nano launched its Weebit Matrix In-Memory Compute Research Program on November 4, 2026, giving academic and industry researchers access to hardware built around its resistive random-access memory, or ReRAM. The program will let teams prototype AI algorithms, research ways to program the memory and explore architectures… Read More
Three-Dimensional Chess Anyone? The Challenges of Power Integrity for Multi-Die Designs
Power integrity has been a substantial design challenge for a long time. In the multi-die era, the problems associated with EMIR analysis must now move beyond the chip to consider interactions across the entire stack. The effects to be analyzed span a multi-dimensional, multi-material space. The graphic at the top of this post… Read More
CTO Interview with Ed Plowman of Imagination Technologies
Ed Plowman is Chief Technology Officer at Imagination Technologies, where he leads technology strategy, advanced architecture research and long-term innovation initiatives. He focuses on the convergence of graphics, compute and artificial intelligence, helping shape the next generation of efficient and adaptable computing… Read More



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