Meta recently open-sourced a capable, large-scale agent model — 30 billion parameters, a rough measure of the model’s size and complexity. It’s free, downloadable, and runs, per Meta’s own benchmarks, on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max or M5 Max chip and 32GB of memory. Their rationale is that powerful agents belong… Read More
Will Agentic AI Help the Open-Source EDA Market?Agentic artificial intelligence is likely to give the…Read More
TSMC’s Overseas Fabs Are Paying OffTSMC’s overseas fabrication strategy is beginning to deliver…Read More
Crescent Island: Turning Memory Capacity into Agentic AI ThroughputIntel’s Crescent Island is a discrete data-center GPU…Read More
AI-designed Chip Points Toward a Faster Future for Custom SiliconArchitect Labs says it has created Redwood, an…Read More
Huawei Can’t Shrink Its Chips, So It’s Folding ThemOn May 25, Huawei semiconductor chief He Tingbo…Read MoreIntel 18A-P Pushes RibbonFET and Backside Power Beyond the First Generation
Intel Foundry has a blog on LinkedIn that is worth a look. The blogs are by trusted Intel Foundry technical experts and are filled with content. I will cherry pick write a bit about them but be sure and subscribe to this, absolutely.
Intel 18A-P is not a new process node in the conventional sense. It is a performance-enhanced derivative… Read More
Building a Faster Path from Semiconductor Idea to Commercial Silicon
SEMI and Silicon Catalyst’s new strategic partnership addresses one of the semiconductor industry’s most persistent technical problems: transforming a promising hardware concept into a manufacturable, commercially viable product. Announced through a memorandum of understanding signed at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, the collaboration… Read More
DAC 2026: A Discussion of Who Owns the Intelligence Behind Tomorrow’s Chips and How to Make it Better
The industry is moving from simple documentation chatbots to agentic workflows capable of performing complex, multi-step tasks like design creation, verification, and library characterization. These agents are intended to enhance engineering productivity by roughly 50%. A panel of industry experts met at DAC to discuss… Read More
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
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
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 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
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
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


Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects