The semiconductor industry has experienced several defining transitions over the last three decades. We moved from single-core to multicore processors, from ASIC-centric designs to IP-based SoCs, and from monolithic integration to heterogeneous architectures. Today, another transition is underway, one that may ultimately… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
RISC-V and AI: The Architecture Shift Is Now
MIPI Alliance Accelerates Automotive AI Connectivity with A-PHY Compliance Program
The automotive semiconductor industry is undergoing a major architectural transition as vehicles evolve into centralized, software-defined computing platforms capable of supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, and AI-enabled cockpit applications. This shift is driving demand for… Read More
Intel Foundry Expands the 18A Platform with 18A-P and Demonstrates Long-Term Technology Leadership at VLSI 2026
At the 2026 VLSI Symposium, Intel Foundry provided a detailed update on its process technology roadmap, highlighting the continued maturation of Intel 18A, the introduction of Intel 18A-P, and several advanced research initiatives that extend beyond current gate-all-around (GAA) transistor architectures. The presentation… Read More
Akeana Collaborates with Samsung Electronics, Fast-Tracking RISC-V Customers and Ecosystem for Server and Agentic AI Silicon
The momentum behind RISC-V continues to accelerate as Akeana announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung Electronics aimed at reducing time-to-market for next-generation server and agentic AI silicon. The partnership combines Akeana’s high-performance RISC-V compute platform with Samsung Foundry’s advanced process… Read More
Chips&Media’s Next-Generation Video CODEC IP Powers Ambarella’s Expanding Edge AI Portfolio
Chips&Media has announced a strategic licensing agreement with Ambarella for its latest-generation video CODEC intellectual property (IP), marking a significant milestone in the evolution of edge AI, computer vision, and physical AI systems. The agreement follows an extensive technical evaluation process and further… Read More
CEO Interview with Suresh Vasudevan of Clockwork.io
Suresh Vasudevan is CEO of Clockwork.io, pioneering Software-Driven AI Fabrics™ that recover the 60-80% of cluster capacity that today goes completely unutilized. Previously, he led Nimble Storage to IPO and HPE acquisition, and served as CEO of Sysdig. Prior to that, he was at NetApp and McKinsey & Co.
His focus: making … Read More
Q&A Interview with Mo Steinman, Lightelligence’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, U.S.
Maurice (Mo) Steinman is Senior Vice President and General Manager, U.S. at Lightelligence. He took a few minutes out of a busy week to answer questions about Lightelligence, its optical solutions, application areas for its optical computing products and how it differentiates itself in this market.
Tell us about Lightelligence.
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Mike Horton is a co-founder of HYFIX Spatial Intelligence, which builds GNSS hardware for decentralized positioning and timing networks, and GEODNET, the world’s largest decentralized GNSS reference network, and HYFIX Spatial Intelligence, which builds GNSS hardware for decentralized positioning and timing networks.… Read More
How llmda.ai Coaxed Me Out of Retirement, an Interview with Kurt Shuler
Arteris is one of the most impressive companies SemiWiki has worked with over the last fifteen years. We have collaborated on one hundred and seventy-three articles/podcasts that have garnered more than two million views/listens. The success of Arteris can be easily tracked to the executive team and Kurt Shuler was the executive… Read More
The Memory Sector Is Becoming One of the Main Beneficiaries of the AI Boom
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is transforming the semiconductor industry, and nowhere is this more evident than in the memory sector. AI training and inference workloads are fundamentally memory-intensive, driving unprecedented demand for advanced DRAM architectures, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and… Read More
ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution