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DAC – The Chips to Systems Conference 2026

DAC – The Chips to Systems Conference 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 02-02-2026 at 6:00 am

DAC 2026 Long Beach

The Design Automation Chips to Systems Conference is the preeminent international event for professionals involved in electronic design, system architecture, and EDA.  Formerly known simply as the Design Automation Conference or DAC has evolved over more than six decades into a forward-looking forum that spans the entire… Read More


CEO Interview with Naama BAK of Understand Tech

CEO Interview with Naama BAK of Understand Tech
by Daniel Nenni on 02-01-2026 at 6:00 pm

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Naama BAK is an entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in tech. He is the founder of Understand Tech, a generative AI platform for enterprises, and Trustii.io, a machine learning platform for data science challenges. He previously held roles at NXP Semiconductors, Orange, and Safran, working in cybersecurity across research,… Read More


Podcast EP329: How Marvell is Addressing the Power Problem for Advanced Data Centers with Mark Kuemerle

Podcast EP329: How Marvell is Addressing the Power Problem for Advanced Data Centers with Mark Kuemerle
by Daniel Nenni on 01-30-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Mark Kuemerle, Vice President of Technology, Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell. Mark is responsible for defining leading-edge ASIC offerings and architects system-level solutions. Before joining Marvell, Mark was a Fellow in Integrated Systems Architecture at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and has held multiple engineering… Read More


Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges: Jitter

Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges: Jitter
by Mike Gianfagna on 01-30-2026 at 6:00 am

Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges Jitter

Clock jitter rarely fails in obvious ways. In advanced-node designs, its impact is often indirect, emerging through subtle timing uncertainty, interaction with power delivery noise, and compounding effects across large clock networks. These behaviors can quietly erode margin and predictability, even when conventional… Read More


Synopsys and AMD Honored for Generative and Agentic AI Vision, Leadership, and Impact

Synopsys and AMD Honored for Generative and Agentic AI Vision, Leadership, and Impact
by Daniel Nenni on 01-29-2026 at 12:00 pm

Synopsys AMD Agentic AI Honor

Synopsys and AMD were recently selected by the World Economic Forum for inclusion in the WEF’s MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) AI program, recognizing their leadership and real-world impact in applying generative and agentic AI to semiconductor design and engineering. This distinction places… Read More


The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again

The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again
by Jonah McLeod on 01-29-2026 at 10:00 am

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When Morris Chang left Texas Instruments in 1983 to found TSMC, he was not merely starting a new company—he was proposing a new industrial logic. Chang recognized that semiconductor manufacturing had become so capital-intensive that it could no longer survive as just one function inside a vertically integrated company.… Read More


2026 Outlook with Mathew Burns of Samtec

2026 Outlook with Mathew Burns of Samtec
by Daniel Nenni on 01-29-2026 at 8:00 am

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We have been working with Matt and Samantec for the past 5 years. Samtec is a billion dollar privately-held manufacturer with a wide range of electronic interconnect products that are critical in high-speed and high-reliability systems.

Matt has been with Samtec for more than 10 very important year developing go-to-market strategies… Read More


2025 Retrospective. Innovation in Verification

2025 Retrospective. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 01-29-2026 at 6:00 am

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As usual in January we start with a look back at the papers we reviewed last year. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.

Looking back at 2025

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The Chronicle of TSMC CoWoS

The Chronicle of TSMC CoWoS
by Daniel Nenni on 01-28-2026 at 10:00 am

Chronical of CoWoS

As semiconductor scaling slowed and system performance became increasingly constrained by data movement rather than raw compute, advanced packaging emerged as a decisive lever. Among these technologies, TSMC’s CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) represents a turning point in how high-performance systems are … Read More


2026 Outlook with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI

2026 Outlook with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI
by Daniel Nenni on 01-28-2026 at 8:00 am

Shelly Henry MooresLabAI

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

I’m Shelly Henry, CEO and co-founder of MooresLabAI. After two decades of building chips for Xbox, HoloLens, and Azure, I reached a point where I knew the industry needed a reset. So I teamed up with fellow engineers, Shashank Chaurasia and Sirish Munipalli to create MooresLabAI—a… Read More