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AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Insights from Siemens EDA’s 2025 OIP Presentation

AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Insights from Siemens EDA’s 2025 OIP Presentation
by Daniel Nenni on 12-09-2025 at 10:00 am

 

In the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry, Design Rule Checking (DRC) remains a critical bottleneck in chip design workflows. Siemens EDA’s presentation at the 2025 TSMC Open Innovation Platform Forum, titled “AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization,” showcases how artificial intelligence … Read More


How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s

How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-09-2025 at 8:00 am

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As AI and HPC systems scale to thousands of CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, interconnect performance increasingly determines end-to-end efficiency. Training and inference pipelines rely on low-latency coordination, high-bandwidth memory transfers, and rapid communication across heterogeneous devices. With model sizes… Read More


Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps

Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps
by Daniel Nenni on 12-09-2025 at 6:00 am

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Tarun Verma, Managing Partner of Silicon Catalyst, delivered a keynote at Verification Futures Austin titled “Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps.” Drawing from his role in the world’s only accelerator focused on the global semiconductor industry, Tarun outlined the sector’s resurgence, persistent… Read More


What’s New with Integrated Product Lifecycle Management (IPLM)

What’s New with Integrated Product Lifecycle Management (IPLM)
by Daniel Payne on 12-08-2025 at 10:00 am

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I’ve blogged about Methodics before they were acquired by Perforce back in 2020, so I wanted to get an update on Perforce IPLM (Integrated Product Lifecycle Management) by attending their recent webinar. Hassan Ali Shah, Senior Product Manager and Rien Gahlsdor, Perforce IPLM Product Owner were the two webinar presenters. Their… Read More


Jensen Huang Drops Donald Trump Truth Bomb on Joe Rogan Podcast

Jensen Huang Drops Donald Trump Truth Bomb on Joe Rogan Podcast
by Daniel Nenni on 12-08-2025 at 6:00 am

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How’s that for a clickable title? It really should be called Jensen Huang’s origin story but who is going to click on that?

As  podcaster myself I can say without a doubt that this was the best podcast I have listened to all year. During my 30+ EDA and IP career Nvidia was a customer on many different occasions. I do know how… Read More


Cerebras AI Inference Wins Demo of the Year Award at TSMC North America Technology Symposium

Cerebras AI Inference Wins Demo of the Year Award at TSMC North America Technology Symposium
by Daniel Nenni on 12-07-2025 at 2:00 pm

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This is a clear reminder of how important the semiconductor ecosystem is and how closely TSMC works with customers. The TSMC Symposium started 30 years ago and I have been a part of it ever since.  This event is attended by TSMC’s top customers and partners and is the #1 semiconductor networking event of the year, absolutely.… Read More


CEO Interview with Pere Llimós Muntal of Skycore Semiconductors

CEO Interview with Pere Llimós Muntal of Skycore Semiconductors
by Daniel Nenni on 12-07-2025 at 12:00 pm

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Pere Llimós Muntal is the CEO and co-founder of Skycore Semiconductors, driving the strategy, business development, and growth of the company as it delivers next-generation power integrated circuit (IC) solutions for applications with extreme power density, efficiency, and form factor demands, such as data center power… Read More


Podcast EP321: An Overview of Soitec’s Worldwide Leadership in Engineered Substrates with Steve Babureck

Podcast EP321: An Overview of Soitec’s Worldwide Leadership in Engineered Substrates with Steve Babureck
by Daniel Nenni on 12-05-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Steve Babureck, executive vice president of strategy and president of Soitec USA. He joined the company in 2011 and held various positions including head of the finance department of the solar business in the United States, head of strategic marketing, and head of Group investor Relations in San Diego and Singapore.… Read More


ClockEdge Delivers Precision, Visibility and Control for Advanced Node Clock Networks

ClockEdge Delivers Precision, Visibility and Control for Advanced Node Clock Networks
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-05-2025 at 6:00 am

ClockEdge Delivers Precision, Visibility and Control for Advanced Node Clock Networks

At advanced nodes, the clock is no longer just another signal. It is the most critical and sensitive electrical network on the chip, and the difference between meeting performance targets and missing the tape-out often comes down to a few picoseconds, buried deep inside the clock distribution network. Yet many design teams still… Read More


WEBINAR: Defacto’s SoC Compiler AI: Democratizing SoC Design with Human Language

WEBINAR: Defacto’s SoC Compiler AI: Democratizing SoC Design with Human Language
by Daniel Nenni on 12-04-2025 at 10:00 am

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Modern chip design has reached unprecedented levels of complexity. Today’s System-on-Chip (SoC) designs integrate multiple processors, complex memory hierarchies, sophisticated interconnects, and much more. All requiring orchestration using complex EDA tool flows. Months are routinely lost to configuration… Read More