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Podcast EP369: How Aion Silicon Enables Next Generation Innovatoin with Oliver Jones

Podcast EP369: How Aion Silicon Enables Next Generation Innovatoin with Oliver Jones
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Oliver Jones, CEO of Aion Silicon, a global semiconductor design and engineering company delivering custom silicon solutions for the AI age. He leads the company’s strategy and growth as it continuously helps technology companies bring advanced SoC designs to market from architecture through production,… Read More


Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means

Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 8:00 am

TSMC LC Lu OIP Event

About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of R&D experience running the TSMC Design & Technology Platform is truly an honor, absolutely.

AI is creating two related… Read More


CEO Interview with Sunghyun Park of Rebellions

CEO Interview with Sunghyun Park of Rebellions
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Sunghyun Park earned his B.S. from KAIST and his Ph.D. from MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). He built his career across Intel, Samsung Research, and SpaceX as a semiconductor design engineer, before serving as Vice President at Morgan Stanley in New York — a rare combination of… Read More


Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference

Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-24-2026 at 2:00 pm

Image for Article 2 SemiWiki Tokens per Watt or per Dollar

👉 This is Part 2 of an editorial series on the evolving economics of AI inference. If you missed Part 1, where I broke down the shift toward full-system integration, the lessons from the AI Infra Summit, and the “no forks” open-source philosophy, you can read it HERE: Beyond the Accelerator: Why Silicon Challengers … Read More


S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter

S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter
by Daniel Nenni on 09-24-2026 at 10:00 am

S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More


From Custom Silicon to AI Systems: Why Cross-Layer Engineering Matters

From Custom Silicon to AI Systems: Why Cross-Layer Engineering Matters
by Daniel Nenni on 09-24-2026 at 8:00 am

From Custom Silicon to AI Systems Why Cross Layer Engineering Matters

The central argument of Ankur Gupta’s AI Infra Summit keynote is simple but consequential: the next leap in AI infrastructure will not come from improving chips, servers, cooling systems, or data centers independently. It will come from optimizing the connections among them. Siemens frames this as a journey “from custom silicon… Read More


Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together

Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together
by Daniel Nenni on 09-24-2026 at 6:00 am

Silicon Creations CC interview

When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today, Silicon Creations has grown to nearly 200 employees across multiple locations and serves almost 600 customers… Read More


The Intelligence Revolution: TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Forges the Path to Trillion-Transistor AI Systems

The Intelligence Revolution: TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Forges the Path to Trillion-Transistor AI Systems
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-23-2026 at 2:00 pm

Broadest Portfolio of Silicon Validated IP

At the 2026 OIP Ecosystem Forum, the industry narrative shifted from incremental scaling to what TSMC defines as the “Intelligence Revolution.” Akin to the 18th-century Industrial Revolution which transitioned human physical labor to mechanical power, the current era is augmenting human ingenuity through … Read More


Podcast EP368: An Overview of TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) event with Aveek Sarkar

Podcast EP368: An Overview of TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) event with Aveek Sarkar
by Daniel Nenni on 09-23-2026 at 2:00 pm

Daniel is joined by Aveek Sarkar, who heads TSMC’s Ecosystem and Alliance Management Division. Along with his team, he is responsible for driving semiconductor design enablement in collaboration with the partner ecosystem through TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform® (OIP). Prior to TSMC, Aveek worked on chip designs at Sun Microsystems… Read More


SEMICON West’s “Bridging design and Manufacturing with AI” Design Session Explores AI as Practical Lever Across Entire Lifecycle

SEMICON West’s “Bridging design and Manufacturing with AI” Design Session Explores AI as Practical Lever Across Entire Lifecycle
by Admin on 09-23-2026 at 10:00 am

Bridging sign and Manufacturing with AI

By Julie Rogers, Executive Director, Electronic System Design Alliance

2026 is “Bridging Design and Manufacturing with AI” during a day-long session Tuesday, October 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, North Hall, Lower Level, Room 20.

The Design Session hosted and organized by the Electronic… Read More