This is our third year working with Sondrel and it has been a great experience. I have always been fascinated with the ASIC business and put a full chapter about it in our first book “Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor industry.” Companies like Sondrel enabled our move to the fabless model and now they … Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
WEBINAR: Mastering DC-DC Converters: Your Guide to Better Hardware
Renie Ananthakumar, Principal Engineer at TenXer Labs., invites System Design Engineers globally to a webinar that’s all about practical insights—From Bench to Board: A Comprehensive Guide to DC-DC Converter Selection and Remote Testing.
See the Replay Here
In this session, we are breaking down the complexity of DC-DC… Read More
How Disruptive will Chiplets be for Intel and TSMC?
Chiplets (die stacking) is not new. The origins are deeply rooted in the semiconductor industry and represent a modular approach to designing and manufacturing integrated circuits. The concept of chiplets has been energized as a response to the recent challenges posed by the increasing complexity of semiconductor design. … Read More
2024 Outlook with Anupam Bakshi of Agnisys
We have worked with Agnisys for the last two years and it has been a pleasure. Anupam and his team of specification automation experts have pioneered a family of products and solutions for streamlining the generation of the required files for design, software, verification, validation, and documentation for semiconductor development… Read More
IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?
The annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) took place last month. One of the presentations on the short course was by Matthew Metz of Intel titled New Materials Systems for Moore’s Law Continuation. In essence this was a look at some of the possibilities for what comes after silicon runs out of steam.
Matthew started… Read More
2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec
Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. It has been an honor working with Matt and his team for the last 3 years and I value… Read More
CEO Interview: Oshri Cohen of Cybord
Oshri Cohen is an executive officer with 20+ years of vast management experience in operations, engineering, and supply chain in multinational high-tech companies. Before joining Cybord, Oshri headed Supply chain at Nvidia Networks. Prior to that Mr. Cohen held the global procurement and logistics at Mellanox (Acquired by… Read More
Alphawave Semiconductor Powering Progress
Do you know who had another great year? Alphawave Semi did. Despite being relatively young in the industry (founded in 2017), the company has quickly gained recognition for its advancements in high-speed connectivity solutions.
They specialize in developing high-speed connectivity solutions for Data centre, AI, 5G wireless… Read More
2024 Big Race is TSMC N2 and Intel 18A
There is a lot being said about Intel getting the lead back from TSMC with their 18A process. Like anything else in the semiconductor industry there is much more here than meets the eye, absolutely.
From the surface, TSMC has a massive ecosystem and is in the lead as far as process technologies and foundry design starts but Intel is … Read More
Agile Analog Partners with sureCore for Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is the next big thing for the computing world. The semiconductor industry has been talking about it for years. It’s shiny, mysterious, and capable of some incredible things. Instead of using classical bits to represent information (which can be either a 0 or a 1), quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits… Read More









Jensen Huang and the Cost of Unchecked Influence