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2026 Outlook with Krishna Anne of Agile Analog

2026 Outlook with Krishna Anne of Agile Analog
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2026 at 10:00 am

Agile Analog Krishna Anne headshot photo (1)

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

I have worked in the global semiconductor industry for over 30 years, with major semiconductor companies such as Rambus, AMD and Broadcom, as well as with start-ups such as SCI Semiconductor and DataTrails. I started my career as a digital circuit designer, then moved into marketing,… Read More


PQShield on Preparing for Q-Day

PQShield on Preparing for Q-Day
by Bernard Murphy on 01-22-2026 at 8:00 am

PQShield on Preparing for Q-Day

Following my series on quantum computing (QC), it is timely to look again at what is still the most prominent real-world concern around this technology: its ability to hack classical security methods for encryption and related tasks. Given what I have written on the topic, an understandable counter would be that QC is still in development… Read More


2026 Outlook with Ying J Chen of S2C

2026 Outlook with Ying J Chen of S2C
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2026 at 6:00 am

Ying J Chen of S2C

I’m Ying J Chen, VP of S2C. S2C is a leading global supplier of FPGA prototyping solutions for advanced SoC and ASIC designs, holding the second largest share of the global prototyping market. Founded in 2003, the company has supported more than 600 customers, including 11 of the top 25 semiconductor companies worldwide, with teams… Read More


Arteris Smart NoC Automation: Accelerating AI-Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplets

Arteris Smart NoC Automation: Accelerating AI-Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplets
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2026 at 6:00 am

Smart NoC Automation Accelerating AI Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplet

As semiconductor design pushes into increasingly complex territory, driven by Ai, ML, HPC, and heterogeneous system architectures, designers are challenged to balance performance, power, and time-to-market pressures. In this landscape, network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have emerged as a foundational building block… Read More


Manufacturing Is Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Semiconductor Front Lines

Manufacturing Is Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Semiconductor Front Lines
by Kalar Rajendiran on 01-21-2026 at 10:00 am

PDF Fireside Chat Dinner Wideshot Dec 3, 2025

This article is an editorial synthesis of a fireside chat between Tom Caulfield, Executive Chairman of GlobalFoundries, and John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions that took place on December 3rd 2025, during the PDF Solutions Users Conference. John Kibarian led the conversation to get Tom Caulfield’s perspectives on leadership… Read More


2026 Outlook with Kamal Khan of Perforce

2026 Outlook with Kamal Khan of Perforce
by Daniel Nenni on 01-21-2026 at 8:00 am

Kamal Khan

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

Kamal Khan, Vice President North America Automotive/Semiconductor at Perforce. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to drive quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed across the technology lifecycle. Our global footprint spans more than 80 … Read More


Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP

Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP
by Bernard Murphy on 01-21-2026 at 6:00 am

Curbing Soaring Power Demand min

Power has become a very hot (ha-ha) topic. The media has latched onto the emergence of massive AI datacenters disrupting energy pricing for consumers. Both as consumers and in industry we welcome faster and better features in our hand-held computing devices, cars, homes, industrial processes and businesses. But without further… Read More


2026 Outlook with Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation (RDA)

2026 Outlook with Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation (RDA)
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 10:00 am

Badru Agarwala headshot

Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA). With a strong track record of 40 years in EDA, he was previously the General Manager of the Calypto Systems Division at Mentor Graphics, now Siemens EDA.  He advanced High-Level Synthesis with Catapult and drove innovations in high-level verification … Read More


2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA

2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 8:00 am

AMIQ DAC Cropped

Cristian Amitroaie is the Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA,  specializing in software tools for the semiconductor design and verification industry. He co-founded AMIQ in 2003 as a consulting services company and established the AMIQ EDA business unit in 2008 to productize internal tools as commercial solutions. These tools, including… Read More


Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 6:00 am

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line Andes RISCV Summit

The rapid growth of signal processing workloads in embedded, mobile, and edge computing systems has intensified the need for efficient, low-latency computation. Rich Fuhler’s update on the RISC-V Packed SIMD extension highlights why scalar SIMD digital signal processing (DSP) instructions are becoming a critical architectural… Read More