Matthew Stephens, co-founder and CEO of Impact Nano, brings over 20 years of experience commercializing advanced materials. Prior to co-founding Impact Nano, Matt was VP Sales and Products at Air Liquide Advanced Materials and held C-level leadership roles at Voltaix and Metem. Matt has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
CEO Interview with Dr Greg Law of Undo
Greg Law is a C++ debugging expert, well-known conference speaker, and the founder of Undo. Greg has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry working for the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as NexWave and Solarflare.
Determined to build a tool to ease the pain of debugging complex software, he started… Read More
Upcoming Webinar: Accelerating Semiconductor Design with Generative AI and High-Level Abstraction
We have been hearing so much lately about the power of AI and the potential of technologies like agentic AI to address the productivity gap and complexities of semiconductor designs of today and tomorrow. Currently, however, the semiconductor industry has been slow to adopt generative and agentic AI for RTL design code. There… Read More
Vision-Language Models (VLM) – the next big thing in AI?
AI has changed a lot in the last ten years. In 2012, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were the state of the art for computer vision. Then around 2020 vison transformers (ViTs) redefined machine learning. Now, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are changing the game again—blending image and text understanding to power everything… Read More
CEO Interview with Jonathan Klamkin of Aeluma
Jonathan Klamkin, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Aeluma, Inc. (ALMU). He is a Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and has previously worked at Boston University, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and BinOptics Corp. (a laser diode manufacturer that was acquired by Macom in 2015). He is the recipient… Read More
CEO Interview with Brad Booth of NLM Photonics
Brad Booth, CEO of NLM Photonics, is a distinguished technology strategy and development leader, and influential in industry consortia and standardization. Prior to NLM, Booth served at Meta Platforms and Microsoft Azure, where he focused on developing next-generation optical connectivity solutions for Cloud and AI data… Read More
CEO Interview with Jonas Sundqvist of AlixLabs
Jonas Sundqvist received his PhD in inorganic chemistry from Uppsala University, Department for Materials Chemistry at The Ångström Laboratory in 2003 where he developed ALD and CVD processes for metal oxide ALD and CVD processes using metal iodides. Jonas is in charge of the daily business at AlixLabs – as a co-founder, he’s… Read More
2025 Outlook with James Cannings QPT Limited
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m James Cannings, the Executive Chairman of QPT. QPT is a power electronics start-up with a vision to reduce global electricity consumption by 5%, saving billions and moving the needle on the Net Zero challenge. Electric motors use up to 50% of the world’s electricity and our… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Thang Tran of Simplex Micro
Dr. Thang Tran is an innovator in modern computing, drawing inspiration from pioneers like Seymour Cray, Thornton, and Tomasulo. His work leverages the simplicity of the RISC-V ISA to advance microprocessor efficiency, integrating vector processing and scoreboarding principles foundational to early supercomputing. Thang… Read More
Intel has a new Billionaire CEO!
Great news last week as Intel fills the CEO slot for the 9th time in 56 years with industry legend Lip-Bu Tan. From what I hear, Intel employees, and the entire industry for that matter, are overjoyed. I’m sure there are one or two competing companies that are concerned but overall it is an absolute love fest.
If you look at education… Read More







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