Synopsys and AMD were recently selected by the World Economic Forum for inclusion in the WEF’s MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) AI program, recognizing their leadership and real-world impact in applying generative and agentic AI to semiconductor design and engineering. This distinction places… Read More
TSMC’s CoWoS® Sustainability Drive: Turning Waste into WealthIn a significant example of how high-tech manufacturing…Read More
Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges: Duty CycleAs process nodes advance, circuit behavior becomes progressively…Read MoreThe Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again
When Morris Chang left Texas Instruments in 1983 to found TSMC, he was not merely starting a new company—he was proposing a new industrial logic. Chang recognized that semiconductor manufacturing had become so capital-intensive that it could no longer survive as just one function inside a vertically integrated company.… Read More
2026 Outlook with Mathew Burns of Samtec
We have been working with Matt and Samantec for the past 5 years. Samtec is a billion dollar privately-held manufacturer with a wide range of electronic interconnect products that are critical in high-speed and high-reliability systems.
Matt has been with Samtec for more than 10 very important year developing go-to-market strategies… Read More
2025 Retrospective. Innovation in Verification
As usual in January we start with a look back at the papers we reviewed last year. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.
Looking back at 2025
… Read MoreThe Chronicle of TSMC CoWoS
As semiconductor scaling slowed and system performance became increasingly constrained by data movement rather than raw compute, advanced packaging emerged as a decisive lever. Among these technologies, TSMC’s CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) represents a turning point in how high-performance systems are … Read More
2026 Outlook with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Shelly Henry, CEO and co-founder of MooresLabAI. After two decades of building chips for Xbox, HoloLens, and Azure, I reached a point where I knew the industry needed a reset. So I teamed up with fellow engineers, Shashank Chaurasia and Sirish Munipalli to create MooresLabAI—a… Read More
Synopsys’ Secure Storage Solution for OTP IP
For decades, One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory has been viewed as a foundational element of hardware security. Because OTP can be written only once and cannot be modified afterward, it has traditionally been trusted to store cryptographic keys, secure boot code, device identity, and configuration data. Permanence was often… Read More
Weebit Nano Reports on 2025 Targets
In early January 2026, Weebit Nano Ltd. (ASX: WBT) released a comprehensive report detailing its performance against the 2025 commercial and technical targets the company had set at its 2024 Annual General Meeting. The announcement highlighted significant progress in both business development and technology qualification,… Read More
2026 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Quadric, where I have spent the past four years helping scale the company’s market presence and customer engagement. Quadric is a pure-play IP licensing company that has been operating for more than seven years. We specialize in a truly unique,… Read More
Hierarchical Device Planning as an Enabler of System Technology Co-Optimization
AI, hyperscale data centers, and data-intensive workloads are driving unprecedented demands for performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. As the economic returns of traditional transistor scaling diminish, advanced IC packaging and heterogeneous integration have become the primary levers for system-level scaling.… Read More





Weebit Nano Reports on 2025 Targets