After being held in San Francisco since the pandemic the beloved Design Automation Conference will be on the move again. In 2026 DAC will be held in Huntington Beach. For you non-California natives, Huntington Beach is a California city Southeast of Los Angeles. It’s known for surf beaches and its long Huntington Beach Pier.… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
CEO Interview with Kit Merker of Plainsight
Kit Merker is a technology industry leader with over 20 years of experience building software products. He serves as CEO of Plainsight Technologies and previously held senior positions at Nobl9, JFrog, Google and Microsoft.
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Plainsight is focused on making computer vision accessible and scalable … Read More
CEO Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck of Quobyte
Bjorn Kolbeck received a PhD in Computer Science from Humboldt University in Berlin. Bjorn had previously worked at HPC centers and at Google. His experience with hyperscale architectures led him to co-found Quobyte in 2013.
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Quobyte is scale-out storage, and was designed for massive scalability and… Read More
Executive Interview with Mohan Iyer – Vice President and General Manager, Semiconductor Business Unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Mohan Iyer serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Semiconductor Business Unit at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global leader in providing reference metrology, defect characterization, and localization equipment. These advanced systems are essential for driving innovation, accelerating time to market, and… Read More
CEO Interview with Jason Lynch of Equal1
For more than 20 years, Jason has delivered high impact results in executive management. Prior to Equal1, he held several executive management positions at Analog Devices, Hittite and Farren Technology. In these roles, Jason built and managed large teams comprising sales, operation and finance and was responsible for significant… Read More
CEO Interview with Sébastien Dauvé of CEA-Leti
Sébastien Dauvé has been CEO of CEA-Leti since July 1, 2021. With over 20 years of experience in microelectronics and their applications—including clean mobility, future medicine, cybersecurity, and power electronics—he has played a key role in advancing digital innovation. A graduate of École Polytechnique and ISAE-SUPAERO,… Read More
Intel Foundry is a Low Risk Aternative to TSMC
As I have said before, there is a foundry market segment that I call the “NOT TSMC” market, companies who want an alternative to TSMC. My guess, this would be a $5B+ market which is what Samsung Foundry has tried to leverage for the past 20 years. Unfortunately, working with Samsung proved to be a much higher risk than expected… Read More
CEO Interview with Sudhanshu Misra of ChEmpower Corporation
CEO Interview with Thar Casey of AmberSemi
Thar Casey is a serial entrepreneur, focused on disruptive, game changing technology architecture. Today, he is the CEO of AmberSemi, a young California-based fabless semiconductor company advancing next-generation power management (conversion, control and protection) that revolutionizes electrical products and semiconductor… Read More
CEO Interview with Ido Bukspan of Pliops
Prior to becoming CEO of Pliops in 2023, Ido Bukspan was the senior vice president of the Chip Design Group at NVIDIA and one of the leaders at Mellanox before it was acquired by NVIDIA for nearly $7 billion.
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Pliops accelerates and amplifies the performance and scalability of global GenAI infrastructure,… Read More










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