There were many new agentic design flows introduced at DAC this year. Some from mainstream providers and others from new startups. The increased level of activity around this technology was good to see. Most of the approaches presented at the conference were targeting specific parts of the flow. Verification and debug were popular… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA
NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers connect reasoning… Read More
DAC 2026: How Undo Makes AI for Chip Design Work Better
DAC was abuzz this year with new AI-fueled approaches to chip design and debug. New tools powered by deeply trained models opened substantial possibilities to deliver higher quality designs much faster, potentially with less resources. Every new technology has its risks. For AI-driven chip design some of those risks center … Read More
White Paper: The Semiconductor Foundation of Modern AI Data Centers
Artificial intelligence AI has become one of the most significant drivers of semiconductor innovation in history. While AI applications often receive the most attention, the underlying hardware infrastructure that enables AI consists of a highly sophisticated ecosystem of semiconductor technologies. Modern AI data centers… Read More
Mach42 Delivers a Different Take on AI in the Design Flow at DAC 2026
I believe DAC 2026 will be remembered as the turning point for AI assisted design. There has been discussion about AI infusion in EDA for a while now. Most of it was about how AI can be added to traditional tools to make existing methodologies better. This year, that changed. There were several new companies that highlighted a fundamentally… Read More
The AI Genie Is Out of the Bottle and Won’t Go Back
This week, Meta became the fourth major AI lab in two weeks to disclose that one of its own models breached another company’s systems during a security test. The company says a misconfiguration by an outside evaluator handed its Muse Spark 1.1 model internet access it wasn’t supposed to have — an accident in the test … Read More
DAC 2026: Accellera Luncheon Panel on Embracing AI for Advanced Design and Verification
AI was a hot topic at DAC this year. If you attended the event, you’ve already heard about many new tools and systems that aim to improve time to market and quality for advanced semiconductors and systems. I had the pleasure of chairing an Accellera sponsored luncheon panel on Tuesday at DAC that took a different view of AI.
As AI and … Read More
CEO Interview with Joseph Krause of Radical AI
Joseph F. Krause is an American materials scientist, entrepreneur, and U.S. Army National Guard veteran. He is the cofounder and CEO of Radical AI, a New York deep-tech startup founded to accelerate the discovery of advanced materials.
Before Radical AI, Krause conducted nanomaterials research at Rice University, worked on… Read More
The Difference Between TSMC CoWoS-S and CoWoS-R
CoWoS-S and CoWoS-R are two versions of TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate advanced packaging platform. Both technologies are designed to combine high-performance processors, chiplets and high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, within a single package. This shortens the electrical connections between computing and memory components,… Read More
Industry’s First Certified Automotive Grade PUF for Software Defined Vehicles
Software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are connected computing platforms that rely on advanced processors, artificial intelligence (AI), over the air (OTA) software updates, cloud services, and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. Every electronic … Read More


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