AI’s rapid expansion is reshaping semiconductor design. The compute and I/O needs of modern AI workloads have outgrown what traditional SoC scaling can deliver. As monolithic dies approach reticle limits, yields drop and costs rise, while analog and I/O circuits gain little from moving to advanced process nodes. To sustain … Read More
Author: Kalar Rajendiran
Chiplets: Powering the Next Generation of AI Systems
Why Choose PCIe 5.0 for Power, Performance and Bandwidth at the Edge?
Synopsys recently held a webinar session on this topic and Gustavo Pimentel, Principal Product Marketing Manager at the company led the webinar session. Going into the webinar session, I found myself wondering: why focus on PCIe 5.0, eight years after its release? With the industry buzzing about Edge AI, cloud computing, and … Read More
Demand Meets Design: RISC-V and the Next Wave of AI Hardware
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every layer of computing, from hyperscale data centers training trillion-parameter models to battery-powered edge devices performing real-time inference. Hardware requirements are escalating on every front: compute density is increasing, power budgets are tightening, … Read More
Moores Lab(AI): Agentic AI and the New Era of Semiconductor Design
For decades, chip design has been a delicate balance of creativity and drudgery. Architects craft detailed specifications, engineers read those documents line by line, and teams write and debug thousands of lines of Verilog and UVM code. Verification alone can consume up to 35 percent of a project’s cost and add many months to … Read More
AI Everywhere in the Chip Lifecycle: Synopsys at AI Infra Summit 2025
At the AI Infra Summit 2025, Synopsys showed how artificial intelligence has become inseparable from the process of creating advanced silicon. The company’s message was clear: AI is an end-to-end engine that drives every phase of chip development. Three Synopsys leaders illustrated this from distinct vantage points. Godwin… Read More
The Impact of AI on Semiconductor Startups
At the AI Infra Summit 2025 was a panel conversation that captured the semiconductor industry’s anxieties and hopes. The session, titled “The Impact of AI on Semiconductor Startups,” examined how artificial intelligence is transforming not just what chips can do, but how we design them.
The backdrop is stark. Developing a leading-edge… Read More
SiFive Launches Second-Generation Intelligence Family of RISC-V Cores
SiFive, founded by the original creators of the RISC-V instruction set, has become the leading independent supplier of RISC-V processor IP. More than two billion devices already incorporate SiFive designs, ranging from camera controllers and SSDs to smartphones and automotive systems. The company no longer sells its own chips,… Read More
Intel Unveils Clearwater Forest: Power-Efficient Xeon for the Next Generation of Data Centers
At the recent Hot Chips conference, Intel® unveiled Clearwater Forest, its next-generation Xeon® 6 processor with efficiency cores (E-cores). The unveiling was made by Don Soltis, Xeon Processor Architect and Intel Fellow with over four decades of processor design experience and a long-standing contributor to the Xeon roadmap.… Read More
Intel’s IPU E2200: Redefining Data Center Infrastructure
We are in the midst of one of the most transformative periods for data center infrastructure. The explosion of AI, cloud-scale workloads, and hyperscale networking is forcing rapid innovation not only in compute and storage, but in the very fabric that connects them. At the recent Hot Chips conference, Pat Fleming gave a talk on… Read More
Beyond Traditional OOO: A Time-Based, Slice-Based Approach to High-Performance RISC-V CPUs
For decades, high-performance CPU design has been dominated by traditional out-of-order (OOO) execution architectures. Giants like Intel, Arm, and AMD have refined this approach into an industry standard—balancing performance and complexity through increasingly sophisticated schedulers, speculation, and runtime … Read More
Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business