TSMC Powers Up: 408,000 Batteries Get a Safety Intelligence Upgrade

TSMC Powers Up: 408,000 Batteries Get a Safety Intelligence Upgrade
by Daniel Nenni on 05-25-2026 at 10:00 am

TSMC’s Lithium Iron Battery Generation Upgrade Project

As semiconductor manufacturing becomes increasingly dependent on uninterrupted power and energy efficiency, battery reliability has emerged as a critical operational issue for advanced fabs. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, better known as TSMC, is addressing this challenge through an ambitious global initiative… Read More


Power-SOI: The Reliability Engine Behind Functional Safety ICs

Power-SOI: The Reliability Engine Behind Functional Safety ICs
by Daniel Nenni on 05-25-2026 at 6:00 am

Power SOI The Reliability Engine Behind Functional Safety ICs

Power-SOI technology is rapidly emerging as a foundational platform for next-generation functional safety integrated circuits used in autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and other mission-critical systems. The growing convergence of high-voltage power management and low-voltage digital… Read More


CEO Interview with Vivek Raghunathan of Xscape Photonics

CEO Interview with Vivek Raghunathan of Xscape Photonics
by Daniel Nenni on 05-22-2026 at 4:00 pm

Vivek Raghunathan Xscape Photonics

Vivek Raghunathan has over 18 years of experience in silicon photonics. He was a Sr. Principal Engineer, Product Architect and Program Leader for Integrated Silicon Photonics at Broadcom driving key core technology development required to co-package optics with switches and demonstrated industry’s first 25.6T Ethernet … Read More


CEO Interview with Baratunde Cola of Carbice

CEO Interview with Baratunde Cola of Carbice
by Daniel Nenni on 05-22-2026 at 2:00 pm

Baratunde Cola Bio

Baratunde Cola is the CEO and founder of Carbice, an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that develops scalable interface solutions to protect semiconductors and electrical components from overheating in any physical environment. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University and … Read More


ASML High-NA EUV is Not Ready for High-Volume Production

ASML High-NA EUV is Not Ready for High-Volume Production
by Daniel Nenni on 05-22-2026 at 8:00 am

ASML Elephant High NA EUV

Contrary to the popular press, ASML High-NA EUV is not ready for logic production yet—and it may never be, at least not in the form originally envisioned. If you remember how long it took conventional EUV to become production-worthy—arguably 5–10 years—this should not come as a surprise. More importantly, this is no longer just… Read More


What Winemakers and Chip Designers Have in Common

What Winemakers and Chip Designers Have in Common
by Daniel Nenni on 05-22-2026 at 6:00 am

What Winemakers and Chip Designers Have in Common

Consider this a standout presentation at the Silicon Catalyst Spring Portfolio Update Meeting held yesterday at the Computer History Museum. Mahesh Tirupattur, CEO of Analog Bits, is a modern-day, multidimensional semiconductor hero and one of my trusted few. Analog Bits is a premier member of the semiconductor ecosystem,… Read More


Bronco AI Webinar: Full-Chip SoC Debug in 15 Minutes

Bronco AI Webinar: Full-Chip SoC Debug in 15 Minutes
by Daniel Nenni on 05-21-2026 at 8:00 am

BroncoBlogPostDetective

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have always been a matter of engineer-hours and how well knowledge diffuses through the organization.

Bronco … Read More


Siemens EDA Expands AI and Advanced Packaging Collaboration with TSMC

Siemens EDA Expands AI and Advanced Packaging Collaboration with TSMC
by Daniel Nenni on 05-20-2026 at 10:00 am

SIemens EDA TSMC Teshnical Symposium 2026

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium 2026, Siemens EDA reinforced its position as one of the key ecosystem partners supporting TSMC in the race toward AI-driven semiconductor design, advanced packaging, and next-generation process technologies. The annual forum has become one of the semiconductor industry’s most important… Read More


Semidynamics Secures a Strategic Investment to Advance Memory-Centric AI Inference Chips

Semidynamics Secures a Strategic Investment to Advance Memory-Centric AI Inference Chips
by Daniel Nenni on 05-20-2026 at 8:00 am

Semidynamics Secures a Strategic Investment

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence hardware, memory bandwidth and data movement have become just as important as raw compute power. Addressing this challenge head-on, Semidynamics has announced a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the development of its next-generation memory-centric AI … Read More


PQShield unveils ultra-small PQC embedded security breakthroughs at Embedded World 2026

PQShield unveils ultra-small PQC embedded security breakthroughs at Embedded World 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2026 at 10:00 am

PQSNews Ultra small Embedded World

As the threat of quantum computing to modern cybersecurity becomes increasingly real, the technology industry is accelerating efforts to develop cryptographic systems capable of resisting quantum attacks. One of the most significant developments in this field was presented at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, … Read More