Dr. Talluri joined K&S in August 2026 as a member of the Board and assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of K&S in September 2026. Prior to joining K&S, Dr. Talluri served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Enovix Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed advanced … Read More
Data Center Energy Trends Force a Rethink of Chip Power Delivery
Intel Foundry published a two article series on chip power delivery that are worth reading. Here is a quick summary:
Artificial intelligence is changing the requirements for semiconductor innovation. Faster transistors and denser packaging remain essential, but their benefits increasingly depend on another engineering… Read More
Beyond the Die: Verifying the Connected Chip
One of the standout presentations at the 2026 TSMC OIP Forum highlighted a collaboration between Siemens EDA, Marvell, and TSMC. I always appreciate EDA presentations that bring together customer and foundry perspectives, and this one did not disappoint. We follow 3D IC technology closely and have published more than 150 blogs… Read More
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Spotlight on Emerging Technologies
The TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum highlighted many accomplishments across TSMC’s vast ecosystem. Specific achievements with TSMC as well as collaborative work across several companies were all on display.
And there was an exhibit area where you could meet the companies behind many of these stories and learn more about them.
This … Read More
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Broadcom’s View of ASICs and Ecosystems
I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a world-changing product to market. It has always been a highly competitive… Read More
Why Advanced Chip Packaging Is Becoming a Design Problem
As chipmakers put more computing power into a single system, the challenge extends beyond making individual chips faster. They must connect multiple chips, memory stacks, power supplies, and sometimes optical components in a compact package. In the2026 TSMC OIP Forum talk “Addressing Inter-Die Complexity for 3D Multi-Die… Read More
Managing Power, Performance and Reliability in the Chiplet Era
Next-gen AI accelerators, high-performance processors, and complex computing architectures depend heavily on advanced packaging. Bringing multiple dies, chiplets, high-bandwidth memory, and advanced interconnects together into a single 2.5D or 3D package yields massive performance gains. However, this design evolution… Read More
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Opening Remarks
The 2026 TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum was held on September 23, 2026, in Santa Clara, CA. This is the event where TSMC showcases the substantial progress made with its massive semiconductor ecosystem. As one would expect, AI was a key topic throughout the day, with some very impressive results reported and… Read More
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
The Intelligence Revolution: TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Forges the Path to Trillion-Transistor AI Systems
At the 2026 OIP Ecosystem Forum, the industry narrative shifted from incremental scaling to what TSMC defines as the “Intelligence Revolution.” Akin to the 18th-century Industrial Revolution which transitioned human physical labor to mechanical power, the current era is augmenting human ingenuity through … Read More


TSMC’s AI Expansion Signals a Broader Shift in Computing