Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry

Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry
by Daniel Nenni on 12-26-2025 at 6:00 am

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is widely regarded as the world’s most trusted semiconductor foundry, a reputation built over decades through technological leadership, business model discipline, operational excellence, and reliability. In an industry where trust is as critical as transistor density,… Read More


Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V

Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
by Daniel Nenni on 12-25-2025 at 10:00 am

RISC V Summit 2025 David Patterson

In a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V Summit, computer architecture legend David Patterson took the audience on a captivating trip back to 1981, using scanned versions of his original overhead transparencies to recount the birth of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at UC Berkeley.

Patterson began with humor, noting… Read More


TSMC’s Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer Experience

TSMC’s Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer Experience
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2025 at 10:00 am

TSMC Online 2025

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry, has long prioritized customer-centric innovation to maintain its competitive edge in a rapidly evolving industry. TSMC is known as “The Trusted Foundry” for this reason.

Amid increasing complexity in… Read More


The 10 Practical Steps to Model and Design a Complex SoC: Insights from Aion Silicon

The 10 Practical Steps to Model and Design a Complex SoC: Insights from Aion Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2025 at 6:00 am

10 Practical SoC Steps AION Silicon

In the fast-evolving world of semiconductor design, creating a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) requires meticulous planning to ensure performance, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Aion Silicon’s white paper, authored by Piyush Singh, outlines a streamlined methodology that leverages advanced modeling… Read More


A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025

A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025
by Daniel Nenni on 12-22-2025 at 10:00 am

About TSMC 2025

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has transformed from a modest startup into a global technology powerhouse. Founded on February 21, 1987, by Morris Chang, a veteran of Texas Instruments, TSMC pioneered the “pure-play” foundry model. … Read More


CEO Interview with Gopi Sirineni of Axiado

CEO Interview with Gopi Sirineni of Axiado
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 12:00 pm

Gopi Sirineni Axiado

Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skills in building highly efficient, cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and… Read More


Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon

Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Google RISC V in Datacenter 2025

In an engaging presentation at a recent RISC-V summit, Martin Dixon, Google’s Director of Data Center Performance Engineering, took the audience on a metaphorical “road trip” to explore the company’s vision for integrating RISC-V into its massive warehouse-scale computing infrastructure. Drawing… Read More


Bridging Embedded and Cloud Worlds: AWS Solutions for RISC-V Development

Bridging Embedded and Cloud Worlds: AWS Solutions for RISC-V Development
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 6:00 am

AWS RISC V Summit 2025 SemiWiki

In a compelling keynote at the RISC-V Summit North America 2025, Jeremy Dahan from AWS explored the challenges of embedded systems development and how cloud technologies can bridge the gap between local hardware tinkering and scalable, shareable environments. Drawing from his experience as an engineer, Dahan highlighted … Read More


CEO Interview with Masha Petrova of Nullspace

CEO Interview with Masha Petrova of Nullspace
by Daniel Nenni on 12-18-2025 at 2:00 pm

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Dr. Masha Petrova is CEO and co-founder of Nullspace Inc., a venture-backed company developing next-generation electromagnetic simulation software for RF and quantum computing applications. She brings 25 years of engineering software experience from executive roles at MSC Software, Altium, and Ansys, and several computational… Read More


Cost, Cycle Time, and Carbon aware TCAD Development of new Technologies

Cost, Cycle Time, and Carbon aware TCAD Development of new Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 12-18-2025 at 10:00 am

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Our good friend Scotten Jones wrote a paper on a product that has been in joint development with Synopsys and is now available. Scott is currently President Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics and Senior Fellow at TechInsights. Scott and I have discussed this product many times and I feel it is ground breaking technology for… Read More