In a landmark announcement at NVIDIA’s GTC Washington, D.C. conference Synopsys unveiled deepened collaborations with NVIDIA to revolutionize semiconductor design and engineering through agentic AI, GPU-accelerated computing, and AI-driven physics simulations. This partnership, building on over three decades… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
IEDM 2025 and the 100th Anniversary of the FET
The International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for unveiling breakthroughs in semiconductor and electronic device technology, manufacturing, design, physics, modeling, and circuit integration. Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, it has been a cornerstone event since… Read More
CEO Interview with Sanjive Agarwala of EuQlid Inc.
Sanjive Agarwala is co-founder and CEO of EuQlid, a quantum technology company, developing novel 3D imaging tools to support the design and manufacturing of semiconductors and batteries.
Prior to EuQlid, Sanjive served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the IP Group at Cadence Design Systems. His business included… Read More
CEO Interview with Rodrigo Jaramillo of Circuify Semiconductors
With over 18 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Rodrigo Jaramillo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Circuify Semiconductors, an engineering design solutions startup based in Guadalajara, Mexico. Circuify provides ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet design services for the North American semiconductor industry, with experience… Read More
Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business
The second chapter of our book “Fabless: The Transformation of Semiconductor Industry” describes the ASIC business and how important it is. That was more than 10 years ago and the ASIC business is still at the forefront of the Semiconductor industry and is a key enabler of the AI revolution we are experiencing today.
First let’s … Read More
Quadric: Revolutionizing Edge AI
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Quadric stands out as a pioneering force in edge computing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Quadric is a technology company focused on developing high-performance, energy-efficient processors for AI workloads at the edge devices like smartphones, IoT … Read More
Failure Prevention with Real-Time Health Monitoring: A proteanTecs Innovation
In the complex world of semiconductors, reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) have become paramount, especially as devices shrink to nanoscale geometries like 2nm. At the recent 2025 TSMC OIP Forum Noam Brousard, VP of Solutions Engineering at proteanTecs, presented “Failure Prevention with Real-Time… Read More
AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Revolutionizing Semiconductor Design
The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the integration of AI into DRC workflows, as showcased in the Siemens EDA presentation at the 2025 TSMC OIP. Titled “AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization,” this initiative, led by Siemens EDA’s David Abercrombie alongside AMD’s… Read More
CEO Interview with Wilfred Gomes of Mueon Corporation
Wilfred Gomes is the co-founder, CEO, and president of Mueon Corporation, a next-generation infrastructure startup rethinking how data centers are built for the AI era. The company’s flagship innovation, Cubelets™, modular, stackable units that unite compute, memory, power delivery and thermal management, replace the … Read More
Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Cognitum Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence
One of the more in interesting companies I met at the AI Infra Summit was a company known to me for some time. The most interesting part was the chip they are in the process of taping out; It is a high-performance, ultra-low-power AI processor purpose-built for edge computing. It is claimed to deliver “the processing muscle … Read More










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