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John Barr: The EDA Veteran and Award-Winning Needham Funds Portfolio Manager

John Barr: The EDA Veteran and Award-Winning Needham Funds Portfolio Manager
by Admin on 05-31-2026 at 4:00 pm

John Barr Needham & Company

John Barr, Portfolio Manager of the top-ranked Needham Aggressive Growth Fund, has built a career with skills honed not just on Wall Street, but in the trenches of the early EDA industry.

Before becoming a respected sell-side analyst and later a buy-side portfolio manager, Barr spent 15 years in the EDA industry, working through… Read More


CEO Interview with Vivek Vishwakarma of ThirdAI Automation

CEO Interview with Vivek Vishwakarma of ThirdAI Automation
by Daniel Nenni on 05-31-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Vivek Vishwakarma is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist leading ThirdAI Automation, an industrial AI company that accelerates troubleshooting and reporting through automated root-cause analysis. A former technologist at Intel with 10+ patents and 300+ research citations, he speaks on the intersection of advanced… Read More


Podcast EP348: How Lumerian Labs is Building the Foundation for AI’s Next Era with Jay Dawani

Podcast EP348: How Lumerian Labs is Building the Foundation for AI’s Next Era with Jay Dawani
by Daniel Nenni on 05-29-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Jay Dawani, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lemurian Labs, where he leads the company’s mission to reinvent AI infrastructure for greater efficiency, accessibility and performance. With a background spanning AI system architecture, hardware-software co-design and performance optimization,… Read More


Why Generic LLMs Fall Short for Critical Engineering Documentation

Why Generic LLMs Fall Short for Critical Engineering Documentation
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-29-2026 at 8:00 am

Why Generic LLMs Fall Short for Critical Engineering Documentation

Engineering documentation has always been difficult to produce, maintain, and scale. But with the rise of generative AI, many organizations are asking a reasonable question: can a general-purpose large language model (LLM) like Claude automate the work? At first glance, the answer appears to be yes.

Modern LLMs can generate… Read More


Re-Spins Get You Fired, Says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Re-Spins Get You Fired, Says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan
by Daniel Nenni on 05-29-2026 at 6:00 am

Re Spins Get You Fired, Says Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s statement that “re-spins get you fired” reflects the enormous pressure facing semiconductor companies as chip complexity, manufacturing costs, and competitive demands continue to rise. In the semiconductor industry, a “re-spin” occurs when a chip design must be revised and manufactured again because… Read More


Caspia’s AI Makes You a Security Verification Expert

Caspia’s AI Makes You a Security Verification Expert
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-28-2026 at 10:00 am

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Let’s face it, powerful, highly trained AI is making it easier to find security flaws in many systems. When the attack surface becomes the underlying hardware, the risks grow exponentially. Unlike software, hardware can’t easily be “patched”. Early, advanced security verification is the way to mitigate these risks, but doing… Read More


CFrame60: Rewriting the Rules of Frame Compression

CFrame60: Rewriting the Rules of Frame Compression
by Daniel Nenni on 05-28-2026 at 8:00 am

CFrame60 Rewriting the Rules of Frame Compression

Chips&Media CFrame60 is a next-generation frame compression hardware IP designed to address the growing bandwidth and memory challenges in modern SoCs targeting imaging, video, AI, and display applications. Unlike conventional compression architectures that prioritize either bandwidth reduction or image quality,… Read More


Quantum Simulation Using Decision Diagrams. Innovation in Verification

Quantum Simulation Using Decision Diagrams. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 05-28-2026 at 6:00 am

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Quantum gate simulation complexity explodes as qubit counts increase. One way to manage this complexity in simulation on classical computers is through use of decision diagrams in place of matrices. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer… Read More


SoC PLANNER: A New Generation of SoC Design Exploration Solution Managing Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability

SoC PLANNER: A New Generation of SoC Design Exploration Solution Managing Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability
by Admin on 05-27-2026 at 10:00 am

Defacto SoC Planner

With over a trillion chips manufactured every year and application requirements evolving faster than ever (across automotive, HPC, and AI), the pressure on SoC design teams has never been higher with design space keeps growing and schedules keep shrinking.

Indeed, for a complex SoC project, the number of possible configurations… Read More


Engineering the Next Era of Semiconductor Innovation

Engineering the Next Era of Semiconductor Innovation
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-27-2026 at 8:00 am

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The semiconductor industry is entering a transformative new phase, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and increasingly complex chip architectures. That message took center stage during the keynote talks at the Siemens EDA User2User 2026 North America conference. Executives from Siemens,… Read More