The semiconductor industry crossed $1 trillion in annual revenue this year, almost four years ahead of earlier projections. SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha opened the CEO Summit at SEMICON West with a chart that told the story. A year ago, the forecast for 2030 was $1 trillion. Now it is $2 trillion, with $3 trillion possible … Read More
Accellera’s FSL 1.0 Gives Functional Safety Data a Common LanguageAccellera Systems Initiative has approved Functional Safety Language…Read More
Inside the Package Powering Modern AITSMC’s CoWoS-S is critical to the artificial intelligence…Read More
Inside the Silicon: Analog Bits N2P2 Test ChipThe future of intelligent computing depends on silicon…Read MorePDF Solutions CONNECT 2026 Trip Report
On October 15–16, at the tail end of SEMICON West 2026, PDF Solutions held its 2026 CONNECT Conference at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.
PDF Solutions Vitals
Santa Clara–based PDF Solutions is a semiconductor data, analytics, and connectivity company, founded in 1991. Today, its business rests on three pillars, all … Read More
ML-Based Power Models for CPUs. Innovation in Verification
An effective learned power model for a CPU could be a significant advantage in early estimation of power performance against realistic workloads in complex architectures. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A)… Read More
From Metrology to Autonomy: Why Intel Foundry’s Manufacturing Roadmap Matters
Semiconductor manufacturing has always depended on precise measurement. As devices become more complex and packaging integrates more components, however, measuring individual process steps is no longer enough. Manufacturers need to understand how decisions across fabrication, assembly, and test affect the finished … Read More
The Wafer Is the New Battleground: Soitec CPO René Jonker on Building AI from the Substrate Up
Most of the AI conversation stops at the chip. At SEMICON West 2026 I sat down with René Jonker, Chief Product Officer of Soitec, to talk about what sits underneath it.
Ask an engineer where AI performance comes from and you will hear about process nodes, dataflow, HBM stacks and interconnect fabrics. Rarely about the wafer. Yet a … Read More
When Nanomagnets Do the Math: France’s New Machine for Impossible Choices
French researchers have demonstrated a hybrid nanoelectronic “Ising machine” designed to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently. The experimental system combines two emerging device technologies—resistive memory and spintronics—to perform parts of an optimization algorithm through… Read More
Ceva’s Next-Generation NeuPro Brings a Unified AI Platform from Sensors to Infrastructure
Ceva is expanding the reach of its neural processing technology with a next-generation NeuPro portfolio designed to serve everything from always-on sensors to AI infrastructure. The announcement introduces four NPU families sharing a common architecture and unified software stack, giving semiconductor developers a consistent… Read More
ChipAgents Expands AI Across Chip Design. The Test Is Faster, Verified Results
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
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 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



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