Roger Espasa is the CEO and founder of Semidynamics, an IP supplier of two RISC-V cores, Avispado (in-order) and Atrevido (out-of-order) supporting the RISC-V vector extension and Gazzillion(tm) misses, both targeted at HPC and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to the foundation of the company, Roger was Technical Director/Distinguished… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
Sondrel’s Drive in the Automotive Industry
Ollie Jones, Vice President of Strategic Sales at Sondrel, has worked extensively across Europe, North America and Asia and has held a variety of commercial leadership roles in FTSE 100, private equity owned and start-up companies.
Most recently Ollie was Chief Commercial Officer for an EV battery start up where he led the acquisition… Read More
Webinar: Fine-grained Memory Protection to Prevent RISC-V Cyber Attacks
Most organizations are aware of cybercrime attempts such as phishing, installing malware from dodgy websites or ransomware attacks and undertake countermeasures. However, relatively little attention has been given to memory safety vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows or over-reads. For decades, the industry has created… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Nasib Naser of ORION VLSI Technologies.
Dr. Nasib Naser brings over 35 years of experience in the field. His expertise spans the entire VLSI cycle from conception to chip design, with a strong focus on verification methodologies. For his 17 years at Synopsys, Dr. Naser have held senior management positions, leading North American Verification IP, managing Central … Read More
Accelerate SoC Design: DIY, FPGA Boards & Commercial Prototyping Solutions (I)
In the early days, chip designers had to rely on time-consuming simulation results or wait for the engineering sample to validate whether the design meets its intended objectives. With the increasing complexity of SoC designs, the need to accelerate software development has also risen to ensure a timely entry to market.
In the… Read More
CEO Interview: Harish Mandadi of AiFA Labs
Harish Mandadi is the CEO and Founder of AiFA Labs, a service-based IT company that provides best-in-class solutions for clients across various industries. With over 20 years of experience in IT sales and delivery, I have a unique blend of entrepreneurial vision and hands-on expertise in the dynamic landscape of technology.… Read More
CEO Interview with Clay Johnson of CacheQ Systems
Clay Johnson has decades of executive experience in computing, FPGAs and development flows, including serving as vice president of the Xilinx (now AMD) Spartan Business Unit. He has a vision to enable the next phase of computing.
Tell us about CacheQ.
CacheQ is a little over six years old and we have about 10 people. We focus on application… Read More
2024 Outlook with Ben Packman of PQShield
Ben Packman, Senior Vice President at PQShield, leads global expansion through sales and partner growth across multiple vertical markets, alongside taking a lead role in briefing both government and the supply chain on the quantum threat.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
PQShield is a post-quantum cryptography… Read More
CEO Interview: Khaled Maalej, VSORA Founder and CEO
Khaled Maalej is founder and CEO of VSORA, a provider of high-performance silicon chips for GenerativeAI and L4/L5 autonomous driving (AD) applications based in France. Before founding VSORA in 2015, Maalej was CTO at DiBcom, a fabless semiconductor company that designed chipsets for low-power mobile TV and radio reception… Read More
Silicon Catalyst partners with Arm to launch the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest!
Winner and Runner-up to receive the contest’s largest ever technology credit for production tape-outs.
This is an example of why I enjoy working with Silicon Catalyst. They collaborate with our partners and do some really impressive things, all for the greater good of the semiconductor industry, absolutely. If you are not currently… Read More







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