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What Hot Chips 2026 Tells Us About What Silicon Valley Is Actually Building

What Hot Chips 2026 Tells Us About What Silicon Valley Is Actually Building
by Jonah McLeod on 08-23-2026 at 6:00 pm

What Hot Chips Tells us 2026

Here’s what the presentations selected for the 2026 Hot Chips Conference tell us about what Silicon Valley companies are doing these days.

The conference, running this week at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, doesn’t publish detailed abstracts ahead of time, but the program itself, just the lineup of who’s presenting what, … Read More


Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering

Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering
by Admin on 08-23-2026 at 2:00 pm

Reducing EUV Exposure Dose Through Underlayer Engineering

Extreme-ultraviolet lithography is essential for manufacturing advanced semiconductor devices, but its continued scaling presents a difficult materials problem. Photoresists must simultaneously provide high resolution, low exposure dose, limited line-edge or linewidth roughness, and extremely low defectivity. … Read More


CEO Interview with Ajit Prabhu of Quest Global

CEO Interview with Ajit Prabhu of Quest Global
by Daniel Nenni on 08-23-2026 at 12:00 pm

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Ajit Prabhu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quest Global, a global engineering services company driven by a single purpose: to be the most trusted partner for solving the world’s hardest engineering problems. Under his leadership, Quest Global has built long-term, sustainable partnerships and delivers end-to-end engineering… Read More


The Twelve-Month Rule Does Not Describe a New Fab

The Twelve-Month Rule Does Not Describe a New Fab
by Admin on 08-23-2026 at 10:00 am

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By Nikhil Shah

Capital spending is often treated as if it becomes semiconductor capacity about twelve months later. That can be a useful rule for equipment installed in an existing fab. It is a poor description of a new fab built from the ground up.

I tested the distinction using five advanced-node projects in the United States where… Read More


CEO Interview with Sumeet Kumar of Innatera

CEO Interview with Sumeet Kumar of Innatera
by Daniel Nenni on 08-23-2026 at 8:00 am

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Dr. Sumeet Kumar is CEO of Innatera, the pioneering Dutch neuromorphic processor company. Dr. Kumar was previously with Intel and Indrion Technologies, and has spent his career in microprocessor development. He co-founded Innatera in 2018 as a spin off from the Delft University of Technology.

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Podcast EP362: An atomic layer in compute. A discussion of what can be built as graphene photonics scales with Cedric Huyghebaert

Podcast EP362: An atomic layer in compute. A discussion of what can be built as graphene photonics scales with Cedric Huyghebaert
by Daniel Nenni on 08-21-2026 at 2:00 pm

Daniel is joined by Dr. Cedric Huyghebaert, CTO of Black Semiconductor. Cedric is one of the world’s leading experts in the development and integration of 2D materials, particularly graphene, into industrial semiconductor manufacturing. With a PhD in Physics from KU Leuven and over 25 years at imec, Cedric built and led… Read More


How TSMC Is Wiring the AI Era With Light

How TSMC Is Wiring the AI Era With Light
by Daniel Nenni on 08-21-2026 at 10:00 am

How TSMC Is Wiring the AI Era With Light

TSMC’s photonics strategy is centered on integrating optical input-output with advanced logic, rather than selling conventional optical transceivers as standalone products. The company is developing a silicon-photonics foundry platform and a packaging architecture called TSMC-COUPE, or Compact Universal Photonic … Read More


Intel Eyes a Memory Comeback as AI Rewrites Chip Economics

Intel Eyes a Memory Comeback as AI Rewrites Chip Economics
by Daniel Nenni on 08-21-2026 at 6:00 am

Intel Eyes Memory Comeback

Intel is considering a return to memory technology decades after abandoning mainstream DRAM and, more recently, selling its NAND business. Chief executive Lip-Bu Tan has argued that memory should no longer be viewed simply as a low-margin commodity. Artificial intelligence is turning bandwidth, latency and data movement … Read More


Agentrys Shows You How to Build a Multi-Agent System in 30 Minutes

Agentrys Shows You How to Build a Multi-Agent System in 30 Minutes
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-20-2026 at 2:00 pm

Agentrys Shows You How to Build a Multi Agent System in 30 Minutes

Agentrys believes that a purpose-built multi-agent system for chip design shouldn’t be a quarter-long project. Agentic AI systems are becoming quite popular to cut design time and increase quality for complex chip design projects. The challenge is finding the right agentic flow for a particular application. There are… Read More


Questa One Updated at DAC 2026

Questa One Updated at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 08-20-2026 at 10:00 am

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Abhi Kolpekwar, VP & General Manager, Digital Verification Technologies at Siemens EDA met with me at #DAC2026 to provide the big picture on smart verification tools, something they call Questa One. Their verification tools are infused with AI to improve productivity on projects like SoCs, 3D IC and chiplets. Abhi shared… Read More