2024 Outlook with Toshio Nakama of S2C

2024 Outlook with Toshio Nakama of S2C
by Daniel Nenni on 02-05-2024 at 10:00 am

Precision Chip Strategy, PCS

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am Toshio Nakama, the founder and CEO of S2C and a strong advocate of FPGA accelerated ASIC/SoC design methodology. I first started my career at Altera as an FAE and served in technical and sales management roles at Aptix Corporation. I co-founded S2C in Silicon Valley in 2003 … Read More


What ChatGPT has to say about the Chiplet Summit

What ChatGPT has to say about the Chiplet Summit
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2024 at 12:00 pm

Chiplet

Quite a few of the articles I now see about the semiconductor industry use AI. It is not hard to tell, especially for someone like myself, a 40 year experienced semiconductor professional who also writes. In the last 13 years (yes SemiWiki is now a teenager) we have published 9,058 blogs. SemiWiki was the first of now many semiconductor… Read More


CEO Interview: Jay Dawani of Lemurian Labs

CEO Interview: Jay Dawani of Lemurian Labs
by Daniel Nenni on 02-02-2024 at 6:00 am

Full Slide LL Spatial Processing Unit Architecture (1)

Jay Dawani is the co-founder and CEO at Lemurian Labs, a startup developing an accelerated computing platform tailored specifically for AI applications. The platform breaks through the hardware barriers to make AI development faster, cheaper, more sustainable, and accessible to more than just a few companies.

Prior to founding… Read More


2024 Outlook with Niels Faché of Keysight EDA

2024 Outlook with Niels Faché of Keysight EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 02-01-2024 at 10:00 am

Keysite EDA EVent

We have been working with Keysight EDA for the past two years and it has been an honor. The technical depth we have reached with them is impressive. Niels Faché, VP & GM, Keysight EDA, is responsible for Keysight’s design and simulation portfolio. Niels has been part of the Keysight-Agilent-HP family since 1994 when HP acquired… Read More


2024 Outlook with Justin Endo of Mixel

2024 Outlook with Justin Endo of Mixel
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2024 at 10:00 am

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Mixel is a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company that we have been working with for 4 years with outstanding results.  Mixel’s focus is on developing mixed-signal IP, which includes analog and digital components. These IP cores are often used in applications such as mobile devices, consumer electronics, … Read More


Chiplets Open Pandora’s Box

Chiplets Open Pandora’s Box
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2024 at 6:00 am

Chiplet

Chiplets have simplified one area of design but opened pandora’s box on another front. The simulation complexity of each chiplet is lower but now the chiplet-to-chiplet interconnect has become complex. Folks are experimenting with different interconnect protocols, variations of UCIe, modifying UCIe settings, interface… Read More


2024 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric

2024 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
by Daniel Nenni on 01-29-2024 at 10:00 am

Man on Llama

Quadric Inc. is the leading licensor of general-purpose neural processor IP (GPNPU) that runs both machine learning inference workloads and classic DSP and control algorithms.  Quadric’s unified hardware and software architecture is optimized for on-device ML inference. I have know Steve Roddy for many years, he is a high … Read More


Why Did Synopsys Really Acquire Ansys?

Why Did Synopsys Really Acquire Ansys?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-25-2024 at 10:00 am

Synopsys Ansys Logos

Mergers and acquisitions have been a big part of EDA since the beginning. We keep an EDA/IP Mergers and Acquisitions Wiki, it is 13 years old now and has more than one million views. Personally, I have been involved with dozens of acquisitions over my 40 year career, some good, some bad, all are interesting and are an important part … Read More


2024 Outlook with John O’Donnel of yieldHUB

2024 Outlook with John O’Donnel of yieldHUB
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2024 at 10:00 am

yieldHUB Team

yieldHUB is a SaaS company that provides yield management and comprehensive data analysis for semiconductor (IDMs and fabless) companies around the world. SemiWiki has been working with yieldHUB for the past three years doing blogs, webinars, and podcasts with great success. John O’Donnel spent 18 years at Analog Devices… Read More


Chiplet Summit 2024 Preview

Chiplet Summit 2024 Preview
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2024 at 10:00 am

Chiplet Summit 2024 Logo

The second annual Chiplet Summit is coming up and if it is anything like the first one it will not disappoint. Chiplets are a disruptive semiconductor technology that are already being used by the top semiconductor companies like Intel, Nvidia, AMD and others. These companies design their own chiplets so they are blazing the trail… Read More