Randy Caplan is co-founder and EVP of Silicon Creations. For over 18 years, Randy has helped to grow Silicon Creations into a leading semiconductor IP company with more than 500 customers in over 20 countries, and nearly 100% employee retention. Silicon Creations’ designs have been included in over 1500 mass-produced chips from… Read More
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2025 Outlook with Dr Axel Y. Poschmann of PQShield
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
The PQShield team helped define the new PQC (post-quantum cryptography) standards that will be used to replace current encryption that is vulnerable to attack by quantum computers. Now, we work with international blue-chip organizations, disruptive scale-ups, and national… Read More
2025 Outlook with Larry Zu of Sarcina Technology
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Larry Zu, Founder and CEO of Sarcina Technology. I’ve grown Sarcina from just designing packages for a few small companies to handling the entire post-silicon ecosystem, including package design, assembly, testing, qualification and production services for the top … Read More
2025 Outlook with Dr. Chouki Aktouf of Defacto
Chouki Aktouf is Founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and Co-Founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering from… Read More
CEO Interview: John Chang of Jmem Technology Co., Ltd.
John Chang, founder and CEO of JMEMTEK, combines technical expertise and business acumen to lead the company in addressing critical hardware security challenges. With a PhD candidate in Electro Physics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and dual bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Banking and Finance… Read More
Advantest Wins Prestigious Excellent Performance Award at TSMC’s 2025 Supply Chain Management Forum
Advantest Corporation, a world-leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, has been honored with the Excellent Performance Award at the 2025 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Supply Chain Management Forum. This recognition, presented by one of the semiconductor industry’s most influential companies,… Read More
2025 Outlook with Dr. Chouki Aktouf of Innova
Chouki Aktouf is Founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and Co-Founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering from… Read More
WEBINAR: Reconcile Design Cost Reduction & Eco-design Criteria for Complex Chip Design Projects
As chip design complexity keeps increasing, the challenge of managing costs becomes a pressing concern for companies of all sizes. Efficient resource management is emerging as a critical lever for controlling design expenses and ensuring project success.
The chip design market increasingly demands automated solutions for… Read More
2025 Outlook with Mahesh Tirupattur of Analog Bits
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Mahesh Tirupattur. I’ve been with the company for over 20 years. Recently I took the role of CEO, where I drive business partnerships, IP licensing, and joint venture development. This change was a mutual decision between Alan Rogers and I. Alan wants to focus on technology… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Zeynep Bayram of 35ELEMENTS
Zeynep is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of 35ELEMENTS Corp., the GaN solutions company, which spun off from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She worked in small and large semiconductor companies, and managed operations of an equipment manufacturing business. She completed her B.S. and M.S. in EE,… Read More









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