TSMC’s latest Board of Directors capital appropriation announcement may appear mixed on the surface, but a closer look reveals one important conclusion: The company is quietly setting the stage for another potential upward revision to its already aggressive 2026 capital expenditure outlook. The headline figure of $31.3B … Read More
From Point Solutions to Agentic AI Ecosystems: Semiconductor Process Control Depends on Its PastAgentic AI is often presented as a revolutionary…Read More
Panel Discission: Beyond Moore's Law and the Future of Semiconductor ManufacturingThe semiconductor industry is entering a post-Moore’s Law…Read More
CEO Interview with Dave Kelf, CEO of Breker Verification SystemsIn the functional verification space, Breker Verification Systems stands…Read More
RISC-V: From Niche Architecture to Strategic FoundationAt the recent RISC-V Now by Andes conference,…Read More
Bringing mathematical rigour in the world of hardware - a journey into Formal VerificationThis interview presents the first steps of Robert…Read MoreCEO Interview with Nagesh Gupta of llmda.ai
Nagesh has built a career spanning multiple aspects of system design and development at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Cadence, Xilinx, and Lattice Semiconductor.
He is also a serial entrepreneur. Nagesh founded Taray, Inc., which developed memory interface generators for Xilinx designs and was later acquired by … Read More
The “New Shift-Left”: Why FPGA Prototyping is the Ultimate RISC-V IP Sandbox
In the EDA world, “Shift-Left” has traditionally been a mantra for early software development—booting the OS before the silicon even leaves the fab. But as the RISC-V revolution accelerates, the goalposts have moved. We are seeing the emergence of a “New Shift-Left,” one that focuses on critical architectural… Read More
The Semiconductor Growth Numbers are Insane but the Real World Doesn’t Tally!
May’s WSTS Report saw March’s total monthly semiconductor sales up 88.1 percent vs. March 2025, albeit down 8.5 percent from February 2026. This month-on-month decline needs to put in the context of February’s record-breaking 25.7 percent monthly growth.
This growth, however, was solely attributable to ICs, up 99.5 percent… Read More
SiFive’s P570 Gen 3 Pushes RISC-V Further Into the AI Era
With the launch of its new P570 Gen 3 processor family, SiFive is making a broader statement about the future of edge computing and the growing role of RISC-V in mainstream application processors. Rather than simply unveiling another CPU core, the company is positioning the P570 as a balanced-performance processor built specifically… Read More
Configurable xSPI memory controller IP core is FuSa-ready
SPI, invented some four decades ago, is so successful as a low-pin-count interface for microcontrollers and processor cores that it spurred memory makers to incorporate both the physical signaling interface and advanced memory command protocols into serial flash and serial pseudo-SRAM (PSRAM) devices. Those protocols, … Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Jekaterina Viktorova of Syenta
Dr. Jekaterina (Jeka) Viktorova is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syenta, an Australian deep-tech company developing breakthrough additive manufacturing technology for the semiconductor industry. With a background in chemistry, electrochemistry, and advanced manufacturing, she is the inventor of the core Syenta technology… Read More
Sensing. A Quantum Tech Ready for Market?
While the quantum world revolves around quantum computing, (QC) there are a couple of other quantum technologies of note. I covered one of these, quantum communication, in a recent blog. Here I’ll introduce the other, quantum sensing. The goal is to use the high sensitivity of an individual quantum state to external factors such… Read More
Beyond Tool Interoperability: The Emerging Governed Convergence Problem in Semiconductor Design
The semiconductor industry has spent decades optimizing tools. Today, however, the central challenge is no longer whether individual tools are powerful enough. The real question is whether increasingly specialized tools, domains, models, and organizations can still converge coherently into a manufacturable, reliable,… Read More
#DAC2026 Marks Another Pivotal Moment for the Semiconductor Industry
The 2026 Design Automation Conference (DAC 2026) marks another pivotal moment for the semiconductor and electronic systems industry as artificial intelligence, chiplets, heterogeneous integration, and system-level optimization redefine the future of design automation. Held July 26–29, 2026, at the Long Beach Convention… Read More


The Semiconductor Growth Numbers are Insane but the Real World Doesn’t Tally!