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How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects

How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects
by Daniel Nenni on 09-01-2026 at 2:00 pm

How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects

There is an interesting article by Kexun ZHang of ChipAgents on their blogsite. This is a company to watch, absolutely.  Here is my take on it:

Software engineering has already demonstrated the trajectory of agentic AI. Coding tools progressed from autocomplete to systems that interpret requests, inspect repositories, modify… Read More


Keysight ADS Enables First-Pass Silicon at 3 THz for AttoTude

Keysight ADS Enables First-Pass Silicon at 3 THz for AttoTude
by Daniel Nenni on 09-01-2026 at 10:00 am

Keysight ADS Enables First Pass Silicon at 3 THz for AttoTude

AttoTude has expanded its use of Keysight Technologies’ Advanced Design System (ADS) to support an integrated-circuit design flow spanning signaling frequencies from 100 GHz to 3 THz. The company reports that the resulting workflow has reduced IC development cycles by more than 50%, enabling projects to move from concept to… Read More


Follow the Money – Agentrys Raises $24.5 Million to Build Agentic Design Automation

Follow the Money – Agentrys Raises $24.5 Million to Build Agentic Design Automation
by Mike Gianfagna on 09-01-2026 at 6:00 am

Follow the Money – Agentrys Raises $24.5 Million to Build Agentic Design Automation

Agentrys recently launched a new category of design technology, Agentic Design Automation (ADA). The approach promises to revolutionize AI deployment for chip design with technology that facilitates the building of targeted agentic design flows that get better with every run. There is a lot of information available on the … Read More


Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects

Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects
by Daniel Nenni on 08-31-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects

Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process is showing unusually strong early progress, with defect density falling faster than the company expected. The improvement gives Intel a technical boost as it attempts to restore confidence in its manufacturing operation, win foundry customers and demonstrate that years… Read More


GenAlpha Brings a Practical Approach for Analog AI to DAC 2026

GenAlpha Brings a Practical Approach for Analog AI to DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-31-2026 at 10:00 am

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Agentic AI was everywhere at DAC 2026. Various focus areas were presented that covered many parts of the chip design flow. Verification and debug were a popular topic since so much time is spent there. Analog design is another pressure point. Every chip design has analog content. While the size of the analog blocks may not be huge,… Read More


Exploiting agentic automation cost-effectively. Innovation in Verification

Exploiting agentic automation cost-effectively. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 08-31-2026 at 6:00 am

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Frontier models (Claude, etc.) are very powerful but becoming expensive for high token counts. Methods to exploit a mix of models, including local open-weight models, are attracting attention. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer… Read More


CEO Interview with Phillip Stanley-Marbell of Signaloid

CEO Interview with Phillip Stanley-Marbell of Signaloid
by Daniel Nenni on 08-30-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Phillip Stanley-Marbell is the founder and CEO of Signaloid. Up until September 2025, he was a full Professor (Chair of Physical Computation) in the Electrical Engineering Division of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he led the Physical Computation Laboratory. He completed his PhD at Carnegie… Read More


Five Billion Pulses Later: What DUV Optics Testing Reveals About Semiconductor Tool Uptime

Five Billion Pulses Later: What DUV Optics Testing Reveals About Semiconductor Tool Uptime
by Admin on 08-30-2026 at 12:00 pm

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By Dr. Sabina Kuprėnaitė

Deep-ultraviolet optics used in semiconductor lithography may be exposed to billions of pulses over their service life. That creates a qualification challenge that initial reflectance specifications or laser-induced damage thresholds alone cannot answer.

A mirror may meet its optical specification… Read More


CEO Interview with Stephen Strausser of VON ARDENNE North America, Inc.

CEO Interview with Stephen Strausser of VON ARDENNE North America, Inc.
by Daniel Nenni on 08-30-2026 at 10:00 am

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Stephen Strausser was recently appointed CEO of VON ARDENNE North America, Inc. where he will lead the company’s regional strategy, operations, customer engagement and growth initiatives across the US, Canada, Mexico and South America.

Stephen has a powerful blend of business acumen, operations, service/support and engineering… Read More


Podcast EP363: The Impact of an AI Factory on Production Deployment with NeuReality’s Moshe Tanach

Podcast EP363: The Impact of an AI Factory on Production Deployment with NeuReality’s Moshe Tanach
by Daniel Nenni on 08-28-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Moshe Tanach, co-founder and CEO of NeuReality. Prior to founding the company, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Marvell and Intel, where he led complex wireless and networking products from architecture through mass production. He also served as AVP of R&D at DesignArt Networks (later acquired… Read More