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Manufacturing Is Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Semiconductor Front Lines

Manufacturing Is Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Semiconductor Front Lines
by Kalar Rajendiran on 01-21-2026 at 10:00 am

PDF Fireside Chat Dinner Wideshot Dec 3, 2025

This article is an editorial synthesis of a fireside chat between Tom Caulfield, Executive Chairman of GlobalFoundries, and John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions that took place on December 3rd 2025, during the PDF Solutions Users Conference. John Kibarian led the conversation to get Tom Caulfield’s perspectives on leadership… Read More


2026 Outlook with Kamal Khan of Perforce

2026 Outlook with Kamal Khan of Perforce
by Daniel Nenni on 01-21-2026 at 8:00 am

Kamal Khan

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

Kamal Khan, Vice President North America Automotive/Semiconductor at Perforce. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to drive quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed across the technology lifecycle. Our global footprint spans more than 80 … Read More


Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP

Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP
by Bernard Murphy on 01-21-2026 at 6:00 am

Curbing Soaring Power Demand min

Power has become a very hot (ha-ha) topic. The media has latched onto the emergence of massive AI datacenters disrupting energy pricing for consumers. Both as consumers and in industry we welcome faster and better features in our hand-held computing devices, cars, homes, industrial processes and businesses. But without further… Read More


2026 Outlook with Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation (RDA)

2026 Outlook with Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation (RDA)
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 10:00 am

Badru Agarwala headshot

Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA). With a strong track record of 40 years in EDA, he was previously the General Manager of the Calypto Systems Division at Mentor Graphics, now Siemens EDA.  He advanced High-Level Synthesis with Catapult and drove innovations in high-level verification … Read More


2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA

2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 8:00 am

AMIQ DAC Cropped

Cristian Amitroaie is the Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA,  specializing in software tools for the semiconductor design and verification industry. He co-founded AMIQ in 2003 as a consulting services company and established the AMIQ EDA business unit in 2008 to productize internal tools as commercial solutions. These tools, including… Read More


Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 6:00 am

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line Andes RISCV Summit

The rapid growth of signal processing workloads in embedded, mobile, and edge computing systems has intensified the need for efficient, low-latency computation. Rich Fuhler’s update on the RISC-V Packed SIMD extension highlights why scalar SIMD digital signal processing (DSP) instructions are becoming a critical architectural… Read More


2026 Outlook with Richard Hegberg of Caspia Technologies

2026 Outlook with Richard Hegberg of Caspia Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2026 at 10:00 am

Richard Hegberg

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company

I’m Rick Hegberg and I’ve been CEO of Caspia Technologies since 2024. I have a deep semiconductor background, including CEO roles at three semiconductor start-ups and executive roles at SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, and VLSI Technology.

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Siemens EDA Illuminates the Complexity of PCB Design

Siemens EDA Illuminates the Complexity of PCB Design
by Mike Gianfagna on 01-19-2026 at 6:00 am

Siemens EDA Illuminates the Complexity of PCB Design

As heterogeneous multi-die design becomes more prevalent, the focus on advanced analysis has predictably shifted in that direction. While these challenges are important to overcome, we shouldn’t lose sight of how complete systems are built. Short and long reach communication channels, system-level power management and … Read More


CEO Interview with Moshe Tanach of NeuReality

CEO Interview with Moshe Tanach of NeuReality
by Daniel Nenni on 01-18-2026 at 2:00 pm

Moshe Tanach

Moshe Tanach is co-founder and CEO of NeuReality. Prior to founding the company, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Marvell and Intel, where he led complex wireless and networking products from architecture through mass production. He also served as AVP of R&D at DesignArt Networks (later acquired by Qualcomm),

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Accelerating Advanced FPGA-Based SoC Prototyping With S2C

Accelerating Advanced FPGA-Based SoC Prototyping With S2C
by Daniel Nenni on 01-18-2026 at 12:00 pm

Prodigy S8 100 Logic Systems

Having spent a significant amount of my career in EDA and IP I can tell you first hand how important picking the right prototyping partner is. I have known S2C since my interview with CEO Toshio Nakama in 2017. It has been a pleasure working with them and I look forward to seeing an S2C update at DVCon the first week of March here in Silicon… Read More