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
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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
Accellera’s FSL 1.0 Gives Functional Safety Data a Common Language
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TSMC’s CoWoS-S is critical to the artificial intelligence era because it solves the central systems problem facing modern accelerators: computing capability is growing faster than conventional packages can supply data, power, and connectivity. CoWoS-S, meaning Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate with a silicon interposer, … Read More
SEMICON West 2026: After the Toast, the Hard Questions
Champagne is an unusual opening act for a semiconductor conference. At SEMICON West 2026, October 13 to 15, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, it served a purpose. The toast marked an industry that has already crossed $1 trillion in annual revenue, almost four years ahead of earlier projections.
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CEO Interview with Eric Tsai of Mivium
Eric Tsai is Co-Founder and CEO of Mivium, Inc., a US-based materials technology company in Fremont, California developing submicron gallium nitride powder and related wide bandgap materials. He co-founded Mivium in 2022 after a career building and scaling consumer businesses, most recently as Vice President of Marketing… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky of Disaster Avoidance Experts
Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a consulting and training firm focused on helping organizations adopt AI through employee engagement and practical workflow redesign. He is a behavioral scientist and the author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results… Read More
AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera
AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera, which developed the first-of-its-kind ‘fluid’ circuit board to make electronics physically programmable. Chips and software have been programmable for decades, but the interconnect between them has stayed fixed. By rewiring itself in real time, Itera’s board challenges



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