Alex Navarro is a Principal Software Engineer at Moores Lab AI, where he was the company’s first engineering hire. He spent about ten years in frontend development before moving into semiconductors. Since then he has helped grow Moores Lab AI from an early prototype into a full ecosystem of agentic products that covers the
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From Frontend to the Frontiers of Silicon with Moores Lab AI
PDF Solutions CONNECT, the Premier Event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI, October 15 and 16 in San Francisco
On October 15 and 16, 2026, in San Francisco, PDF Solutions will hold PDF Solutions CONNECT, the premier event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI. This event starts at the end of SEMICON WEST 2026 in a location in close proximity to the Moscone Center. It is a great opportunity for leading semiconductor and equipment companies attending… Read More
CEO Interview with Vivek Raghuraman of Mixx Technologies
Vivek Raghuraman is co-founder and CEO of Mixx Technologies. At Intel, he led the first integrated silicon photonics transceiver to commercial release. At Broadcom, Raghuraman took two commercial generations of co-packaged optics through hyperscaler qualification in Meta’s environment. In 2023, together with Rebecca … Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Stefan Pastine of Thintronics
Stefan Pastine PhD is an American chemist and entrepreneur. In 2011, he founded Connora Technologies, developer of Recyclamine, a recyclable epoxy thermoset technology that allows carbon fiber, fiberglass, and aramid fiber to be recovered from composite waste. Aditya Birla Chemicals acquired Connora in 2019 and applied … Read More
CEO Interview With Nick Kurayev of ScienceSoft
Nick Kurayev is the CEO of ScienceSoft, an AI transformation and software development company focused on regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and investment. The company has been in the market since 1989, delivering AI software solutions and supporting AI hardware implementation.
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Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means
About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of R&D experience running the TSMC Design & Technology Platform is truly an honor, absolutely.
AI is creating two related… Read More
CEO Interview with Sunghyun Park of Rebellions
Dr. Sunghyun Park earned his B.S. from KAIST and his Ph.D. from MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). He built his career across Intel, Samsung Research, and SpaceX as a semiconductor design engineer, before serving as Vice President at Morgan Stanley in New York — a rare combination of… Read More
S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More
From Custom Silicon to AI Systems: Why Cross-Layer Engineering Matters
The central argument of Ankur Gupta’s AI Infra Summit keynote is simple but consequential: the next leap in AI infrastructure will not come from improving chips, servers, cooling systems, or data centers independently. It will come from optimizing the connections among them. Siemens frames this as a journey “from custom silicon… Read More
Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together
When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today, Silicon Creations has grown to nearly 200 employees across multiple locations and serves almost 600 customers… Read More
ChipAgent Raises $134Million and Why it Matters