Ann Wu is Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Before Silimate, Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage inference ASIC programs at Meta, and led product strategy and execution at Celestial AI. Ann has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering… Read More
The Other Side of Bug LocalizationAutomated debugging – starting from an unexpected behavior…Read More
Agentrys Weighs in on LLM Benchmarking for Chip Design at DAC 2026Si2 is conducting quite a few sessions at…Read More
CEO Interview with Dan Fritchman of Generation Alpha TransistorDan Fritchman is an electrical engineer and semiconductor-software…Read More
RISC-V Advantage in Accelerator Control Highlights System Verification ChallengesWhen considering best-fit applications for RISC-V, the appeal…Read MoreFrom Process Learning to Production Control: Characterization for the Era of Heterogeneous Systems
Every generation of semiconductor innovation has relied on one fundamental principle: before a technology can be manufactured at scale, it must first be understood. That understanding comes through characterization.
For decades, characterization enabled process learning. It helped engineers understand transistor behavior,… Read More
Five Myths about the Current Memory Boom
The current semiconductor memory boom is mainly an AI-driven capacity-allocation problem, not simply a lack of factories.
AI accelerators require enormous quantities of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM. HBM is used alongside GPUs and custom AI chips because it can move data much faster than ordinary server memory. As companies… Read More
How Fast Can a Performance Model Actually Be Built?
By Thang Tran, CEO of Simplex Micro and Umesh Sisodia, CEO of CircuitSutra
Performance models have a reputation problem. They’re often treated as a long-lead, high-effort undertaking — something a design team commits to early and then waits on for months before it’s useful. The development of SimplEx Micro’s… Read More
CEO Interview with Ohad Agami of Hiveware
Ohad Agami is the co-founder and CEO of Hiveware, a semiconductor verification company he started in Tel Aviv in 2023 with CTO Yaniv Pascal. He has a systems-focused engineering background with deep experience in semiconductor architectures and complex verification flows, built at the AI chip company Hailo and earlier in Israel’s… Read More
Podcast EP357: How Gonka is Changing the Way AI is Accessed with David Liberman
Daniel is joined by David Liberman, a Los Angeles-based futurist, serial entrepreneur, investor, and former Director of Products at Snap, as well as the co-creator of the Gonka protocol. Gonka is a decentralized protocol that connects people who need computing power for AI with operators who provide GPU hardware. Its goal is … Read More
TSMC CoPoS Versus Intel EMIB Semiconductor Packaging
TSMC’s CoPoS, generally described as Chip-on-Panel-on-Substrate, and Intel’s EMIB, or Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, address the same strategic problem: integrating increasingly large, heterogeneous chiplet systems. However, they attack different physical constraints. CoPoS is an emerging panel-level … Read More
The Silicon Shield Has Never Been Stronger!
The “Silicon Shield” describes the idea that Taiwan’s central role in advanced semiconductor manufacturing raises the economic and strategic cost of military action against the island. The shield is not a literal defense system. It is a form of structural deterrence created by technological concentration: governments and… Read More
PCs & Smartphones Supply Constrained
Global unit shipments of PCs and smartphones were both down versus a year ago in the 2nd quarter of 2026, according to IDC. PCs were down 4.9% and smartphones were down 6.7%. Both PCs and smartphones showed growth in 2024 and 2025. IDC is predicting an 11.3% decline in PCs and a 13.9% decline in smartphones in 2026.
What is causing the… Read More
Agentrys Designs a Real Chip with its Multi-Agent Workforce
The face of EDA is changing. For forty years, this industry has focused on optimizing algorithms for design, verification and implementation of chips. That work has delivered some ground-breaking innovations. Logic synthesis is a good example. There are so many more. Thanks to the innovations commonly referred to as Frontier… Read More



Podcast EP357: How Gonka is Changing the Way AI is Accessed with David Liberman