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
Author: Daniel Nenni
CEO Interview with Dr. Stefan Pastine of Thintronics
CEO Interview With Nick Kurayev of ScienceSoft
Nick Kurayev 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
Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means
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
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
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
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
Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together
When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today, Silicon Creations has grown to nearly 200 employees across multiple locations and serves almost 600 customers… Read More
Why ASML Is Racing to Build 110 EUV Machines
ASML is exploring how to produce more than 110 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in 2028, reflecting the extraordinary investment flowing into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment company expects to manufacture at least 80 EUV systems in 2027 and is considering another production… Read More
The State of the U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Workforce 2026 Benchmark Report
America’s semiconductor workforce is entering a decisive growth period, but employment capacity is not yet keeping pace with investment. New fabrication plants, packaging facilities, and supplier expansions are creating demand for thousands of engineers, technicians, operators, and skilled tradespeople. Whether the… Read More
Weebit Nano’s FY26 ESG Performance: Technical Progress and Strategic Importance
Weebit Nano’s FY26 ESG Report shows how sustainability, governance and operational resilience are becoming integrated into the company’s commercialisation of resistive random-access memory (ReRAM). This integration matters because Weebit’s value is not derived from manufacturing and selling finished chips directly.… Read More
The $725 Million Chip Development: Why Execution Risk, Not IP Cost, Now Dictates Advanced-Node Survival