Power has become a very hot (ha-ha) topic. The media has latched onto the emergence of massive AI datacenters disrupting energy pricing for consumers. Both as consumers and in industry we welcome faster and better features in our hand-held computing devices, cars, homes, industrial processes and businesses. But without further… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
2026 Outlook with Richard Hegberg of Caspia Technologies
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company
I’m Rick Hegberg and I’ve been CEO of Caspia Technologies since 2024. I have a deep semiconductor background, including CEO roles at three semiconductor start-ups and executive roles at SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, and VLSI Technology.
Throughout… Read More
Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV Debug
Verification has become the dominant bottleneck in modern chip design. As much as 70% of the overall design cycle is now spent on verification, a figure driven upward by increasing design complexity, compressed schedules, and a chronic shortage of design verification (DV) engineering bandwidth. Modern chips generate thousands… Read More
Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space
Space applications are booming, prompted by rapidly declining launch costs now attainable through commercial competition. Thanks to ventures like SpaceX, the cost to put a satellite into low earth orbit (LEO) has dropped from $20k/kg to $2k/kg today and is expected to drop further to $200/kg or lower. Plummeting costs drive … Read More
Siemens and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Build the Industrial AI Operating System
At CES in Las Vegas, Siemens and NVIDIA announced a major expansion of their long-standing collaboration, aiming to create what they term the “Industrial AI Operating System.” This ambitious initiative seeks to embed artificial intelligence deeply across the entire industrial value chain—from design and engineering… Read More
Webinar: Why AI-Assisted Security Verification For Chip Design is So Important
It is well-known that AI is everywhere, and the incredible power of this new technology is enabled by highly complex, purpose-built silicon. But there is a silent enemy of this substantial, world-changing progress. Something that has the power to steal a bright future from all of us. The hardware root of trust for those advanced… Read More
Nvidia Overcoming the Challenges of Blending Hardware Verification Expertise with AI and ML
Hardware verification has always been one of the most demanding phases of system design, but today it faces an unprecedented crisis. As hardware systems grow exponentially in complexity verification resources, time, compute, and human expertise, scale far more slowly. This widening gap has resulted in endless regression … Read More
2026 Outlook with Howard Pakosh of Tekstart
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I founded TekStart Group in Ontario, Canada, in 1998 with a very clear objective: to help innovators turn breakthrough technology concepts into real, market-ready products. Over the past 25-plus years, we have worked across the full lifecycle of technology development, from… Read More
Automotive Digital Twins Out of The Box and Real Time with PAVE360
Digital twins are amazing technology, virtual representations mirroring a real physical system. Twin virtual models span software, electrical/electronic and mechanical subsystems, closing the loop with feedback from real physical counterparts. The virtual model calibrates against real sensing feedback gathered in … Read More
2026 Outlook with William Wang of ChipAgents.ai
William Wang is a world-leading expert in artificial intelligence, specializing in generative AI and large language models. As the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Alpha Design AI, he brings a wealth of experience from academia and industry, having previously shipped Amazon Q at Amazon AWS Bedrock
A Mellichamp Chair Professor … Read More


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