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RISC-V Now! — Where Specification Meets Scale!

RISC-V Now! — Where Specification Meets Scale!
by Daniel Nenni on 03-31-2026 at 6:00 am

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In forty plus years as a semiconductor professional I have never seen a semiconductor design ecosystem build as fast and as strong as RISC-V. As a result, RISC-V Now! has emerged as a pivotal gathering, a conference with a clear and ambitious mission: To transform the open, modular, and flexible RISC-V ISA from an exciting specificationRead More


Nuclear Power and Design Automation

Nuclear Power and Design Automation
by Bernard Murphy on 03-31-2026 at 6:00 am

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A couple of folks have asked me to write on nuclear power. Nuclear offers additional sources for power generation, a pressing concern thanks to demand from giant data centers. Also, investment by Microsoft, Sam Altman and others signals their urgency to accelerate past slow moving utilities plans. I have some background in this… Read More


CEO Interview with Charlie Peppiatt of Gooch & Housego

CEO Interview with Charlie Peppiatt of Gooch & Housego
by Daniel Nenni on 03-30-2026 at 10:00 am

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Charlie Peppiatt has served as Chief Executive Officer of Gooch & Housego since September 2022. He joined the company from TT Electronics, where he was Executive Vice President following TT’s acquisition of Stadium Group plc. Prior to that, Charlie served as Chief Executive Officer of Stadium Group from 2013 until its acquisition… Read More


CEO Interview with Jussi-Pekka Penttinen of Vexlum Ltd

CEO Interview with Jussi-Pekka Penttinen of Vexlum Ltd
by Daniel Nenni on 03-30-2026 at 6:00 am

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Jussi-Pekka Penttinen is the chief executive officer, chief technical officer, and cofounder of Vexlum Ltd, an advanced laser technology company. With more than 15 years of experience, he is a leading researcher in the field of Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL) and successfully commercialized the technology.… Read More


Sensors Converge: Where Intelligence Meets the Edge

Sensors Converge: Where Intelligence Meets the Edge
by Daniel Nenni on 03-29-2026 at 6:00 pm

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The Sensors Converge Conference is one of the premier technical gatherings dedicated to the design, integration, and deployment of sensing technologies across industries. The event brings together engineers, system architects, researchers, and product developers to explore advancements in sensor hardware, edge computing,… Read More


CEO Interview with JP Pentinen of Vexlum

CEO Interview with JP Pentinen of Vexlum
by Daniel Nenni on 03-29-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Jussi-Pekka Penttinen is the chief executive officer, chief technical officer, and cofounder of Vexlum Ltd, an advanced laser technology company. With more than 15 years of experience, he is a leading researcher in the field of Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL) and successfully commercialized the technology.… Read More


Podcast EP337: The Importance of Network Communications to Enable AI Workloads with Abhinav Kothiala

Podcast EP337: The Importance of Network Communications to Enable AI Workloads with Abhinav Kothiala
by Daniel Nenni on 03-27-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Abhinav Kothiala, a principal product manager for the Synopsys Ethernet IP portfolio. He has over 12 years of experience across engineering and product management, spanning SoC design, functional verification, and building wireless connectivity platforms and IoT products. He also holds two patents in… Read More


Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center

Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center
by Jonah McLeod on 03-27-2026 at 6:00 am

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At the TERAFAB launch event in Austin on March 21, Elon Musk made a prediction that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago—and may still: roughly 80 percent of AI compute will eventually move off-planet.

The argument is straightforward once you accept his premises. Earth-based data centers face three hard constraints—land,… Read More


Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era

Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era
by Daniel Nenni on 03-26-2026 at 10:00 am

Silicon Insurance Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin

As semiconductor technology advances into increasingly complex and expensive process nodes, the economic and technical risks associated with ASIC design have grown dramatically. At advanced nodes such as Intel 18A, the cost of a single design error can escalate into tens of millions of dollars, compounded by months of delay.… Read More


Synopsys Advances Hardware Assisted Verification for the AI Era

Synopsys Advances Hardware Assisted Verification for the AI Era
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-26-2026 at 6:00 am

Software Defined HAV, Scalability, Density, Performance and EP Ready Hardware

At the 2026 Synopsys Converge Event, Synopsys announced a broad set of new products and platform upgrades, with its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) announcement emerging as a key highlight within that lineup. A key aspect of this announcement was moving beyond a hardware centric model to a more scalable, programmable … Read More