Magen Buterbaugh was appointed President and CEO of Greene Tweed in January 2023. A seasoned leader, with broad industry expertise, Magen has led multiple chemicals & materials-based businesses – spanning from startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises. She led and scaled new innovative research and development platforms… Read More
Why Advanced Chip Packaging Is Becoming a Design Problem Addressing Inter-Die Complexity for…Read More
Managing Power, Performance and Reliability in the Chiplet EraNext-gen AI accelerators, high-performance processors, and complex computing…Read More
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TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Opening RemarksThe 2026 TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem…Read MoreTSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Spotlight on Emerging Technologies
The TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum highlighted many accomplishments across TSMC’s vast ecosystem. Specific achievements with TSMC as well as collaborative work across several companies were all on display.
And there was an exhibit area where you could meet the companies behind many of these stories and learn more about them.… Read More
Intel Foundry: AI performance now depends on the whole system
For decades, chipmakers improved computing performance largely by putting more capable circuitry on a piece of silicon. That remains important, but AI is exposing its limits. Large models demand enormous amounts of data movement, sustained power and effective cooling. A fast processor cannot deliver its full benefit if memory… Read More
TSMC’s AI Design Kit: Bringing Agentic AI Into Chip Design
TSMC is introducing an AI Design Kit, or ADK, to help artificial intelligence tools make better use of its semiconductor manufacturing knowledge. The idea is to give AI agents that run chip-design workflows a technology-specific foundation, so they can adjust designs toward performance, power and area targets with less manual… Read More
OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Why AI-Powered Chip Design Matters
Wow, OpenAI and Synopsys just announced a multiyear partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized artificial intelligence model for semiconductor design. The agreement combines OpenAI’s frontier models with Synopsys’ electronic design automation software and engineering expertise. Its ambition is to help engineers… Read More
Why the energy sector must plan for post-quantum cyber security now
In a September 2026 World Economic Forum article, Ali El Kaafarani argues that energy companies should begin preparing their systems for post-quantum cryptography now. The reason is practical: power infrastructure lasts for decades, while replacing its security can take years. Equipment purchased today may still be operating… Read More
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Broadcom’s View of ASICs and Ecosystems
I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a world-changing product to market. It has always been a highly competitive… Read More
The Pivotal Moments That Gave Rise to Silicon Valley
The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry
by Sunil Mehta
When people tell the story of how Silicon Valley came into being, they usually begin with a familiar sequence of events.
The transistor was invented at Bell Labs. William Shockley… Read More
SiFive and AMD Bring ROCm to RISC-V Datacenter Servers—and Why It Matters
SiFive and AMD demonstrated an AI workload that brings together two open technologies: the RISC-V processor architecture and AMD’s ROCm GPU software platform. At the AI Infra Summit on September 15, 2026, the companies showed ROCm 10.0 running on SiFive’s BigSky datacenter development server. SiFive P870-D CPUs served as the… Read More
Quantum Equivalence Checking. Innovation in Verification
Can quantum computing have any relevance to EDA? This month’s paper suggests it might have a role someday, in accelerating one of the most fundamental of EDA algorithms: SAT. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A)… Read More


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