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PDF Solutions CONNECT, the Premier Event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI, October 15 and 16 in San Francisco

PDF Solutions CONNECT, the Premier Event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI, October 15 and 16 in San Francisco
by Daniel Nenni on 09-27-2026 at 12:00 pm

AI Agent Breaches in 2026

On October 15 and 16, 2026, in San Francisco, PDF Solutions will hold PDF Solutions CONNECT, the premier event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI. This event starts at the end of SEMICON WEST 2026 in a location in close proximity to the Moscone Center. It is a great opportunity for leading semiconductor and equipment companies attending… Read More


CEO Interview with Vivek Raghuraman of Mixx Technologies

CEO Interview with Vivek Raghuraman of Mixx Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 09-27-2026 at 10:00 am

Vivek Raghuraman Headshot

Vivek Raghuraman is co-founder and CEO of Mixx Technologies. At Intel, he led the first integrated silicon photonics transceiver to commercial release. At Broadcom, Raghuraman took two commercial generations of co-packaged optics through hyperscaler qualification in Meta’s environment. In 2023, together with Rebecca … Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. Stefan Pastine of Thintronics

CEO Interview with Dr. Stefan Pastine of Thintronics
by Daniel Nenni on 09-27-2026 at 8:00 am

Stefan Pastine

Stefan Pastine PhD is an American chemist and entrepreneur. In 2011, he founded Connora Technologies, developer of Recyclamine, a recyclable epoxy thermoset technology that allows carbon fiber, fiberglass, and aramid fiber to be recovered from composite waste. Aditya Birla Chemicals acquired Connora in 2019 and applied … Read More


CEO Interview With Nick Kurayev of ScienceSoft

CEO Interview With Nick Kurayev of ScienceSoft
by Daniel Nenni on 09-27-2026 at 6:00 am

CEO Interview With Nick Kurayev of ScienceSoft

Nick Kuraye is the CEO of ScienceSoft, an AI transformation and software development company focused on regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and investment. The company has been in the market since 1989, delivering AI software solutions and supporting AI hardware implementation.

I spoke with Nick about how … Read More


Podcast EP369: How Aion Silicon Enables Next Generation Innovation with Oliver Jones

Podcast EP369: How Aion Silicon Enables Next Generation Innovation with Oliver Jones
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Oliver Jones, CEO of Aion Silicon, a global semiconductor design and engineering company delivering custom silicon solutions for the AI age. He leads the company’s strategy and growth as it continuously helps technology companies bring advanced SoC designs to market from architecture through production,… Read More


Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means

Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 8:00 am

TSMC LC Lu OIP Event

About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of R&D experience running the TSMC Design & Technology Platform is truly an honor, absolutely.

AI is creating two related… Read More


CEO Interview with Sunghyun Park of Rebellions

CEO Interview with Sunghyun Park of Rebellions
by Daniel Nenni on 09-25-2026 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Sunghyun Park earned his B.S. from KAIST and his Ph.D. from MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). He built his career across Intel, Samsung Research, and SpaceX as a semiconductor design engineer, before serving as Vice President at Morgan Stanley in New York — a rare combination of… Read More


Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference

Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-24-2026 at 2:00 pm

Image for Article 2 SemiWiki Tokens per Watt or per Dollar

👉 This is Part 2 of an editorial series on the evolving economics of AI inference. If you missed Part 1, where I broke down the shift toward full-system integration, the lessons from the AI Infra Summit, and the “no forks” open-source philosophy, you can read it HERE: Beyond the Accelerator: Why Silicon Challengers … Read More


S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter

S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter
by Daniel Nenni on 09-24-2026 at 10:00 am

S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More


From Custom Silicon to AI Systems: Why Cross-Layer Engineering Matters

From Custom Silicon to AI Systems: Why Cross-Layer Engineering Matters
by Daniel Nenni on 09-24-2026 at 8:00 am

From Custom Silicon to AI Systems Why Cross Layer Engineering Matters

The central argument of Ankur Gupta’s AI Infra Summit keynote is simple but consequential: the next leap in AI infrastructure will not come from improving chips, servers, cooling systems, or data centers independently. It will come from optimizing the connections among them. Siemens frames this as a journey “from custom silicon… Read More