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TSMC Kumamoto: Pioneering Japan’s Semiconductor Revival

TSMC Kumamoto: Pioneering Japan’s Semiconductor Revival
by Daniel Nenni on 11-07-2025 at 6:00 am

TSMC Kumamoto Fab 2

In the lush landscapes of Kumamoto Prefecture, on Japan’s Kyushu Island, TSMC is etching a new chapter in global chip production. The TSMC Kumamoto facility, operationalized through its wholly-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), represents the Taiwanese giant’s bold foray… Read More


AI RTL Generation versus AI RTL Verification

AI RTL Generation versus AI RTL Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 11-06-2025 at 10:00 am

RTL generation vs RTL Verification

I should admit up front that I don’t have a scientific answer to this comparison, but I do have a reasonably informed gut feel, at least for the near-term. The reason I ask the question is that automated RTL generation grabs headlines with visions of designing chips through natural language prompts, making design widely accessible.… Read More


A Compelling Differentiator in OEM Product Design

A Compelling Differentiator in OEM Product Design
by Bernard Murphy on 11-05-2025 at 6:00 am

PartQuest

Jennifer, an OEM hardware designer, is planning a product around a microcontroller she thinks will meet her needs and wants to supply power from a 3V coin cell battery which she must connect though a boost controller. Jennifer searches a rough description of the part she needs, generating a long list of component manufacturers … Read More


Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation

Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation
by Daniel Nenni on 11-03-2025 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Nvidia Agentic AI 2025

In a landmark announcement at NVIDIA’s GTC Washington, D.C. conference Synopsys unveiled deepened collaborations with NVIDIA to revolutionize semiconductor design and engineering through agentic AI, GPU-accelerated computing, and AI-driven physics simulations. This partnership, building on over three decades… Read More


Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business

Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business
by Daniel Nenni on 10-31-2025 at 6:00 am

Lip Bu Tan Intel

The second chapter of our book “Fabless: The Transformation of Semiconductor Industry” describes the ASIC business and how important it is. That was more than 10 years ago and the ASIC business is still at the forefront of the Semiconductor industry and is a key enabler of the AI revolution we are experiencing today.

First let’s … Read More


Quadric: Revolutionizing Edge AI

Quadric: Revolutionizing Edge AI
by Daniel Nenni on 10-30-2025 at 10:00 am

Revolutionizing Edge AI SemiWiki Blog Image

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Quadric stands out as a pioneering force in edge computing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Quadric is a technology company focused on developing high-performance, energy-efficient processors for AI workloads at the edge devices like smartphones, IoT … Read More


Inference Acceleration from the Ground Up

Inference Acceleration from the Ground Up
by Lauro Rizzatti on 10-29-2025 at 6:00 am

VSORA AI CHip

VSORA, a pioneering high-tech company, has engineered a novel architecture designed specifically to meet the stringent demands of AI inference—both in datacenters and at the edge. With near-theoretical performance in latency, throughput, and energy efficiency, VSORA’s architecture breaks away from legacy designs optimized… Read More


Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in Verification

Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 10-28-2025 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

GPUs have been proposed before to accelerate logic simulation but haven’t quite met the need yet. This is a new attempt based on emulating emulator flows. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series… Read More


CEO Interview with Wilfred Gomes of Mueon Corporation

CEO Interview with Wilfred Gomes of Mueon Corporation
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2025 at 2:00 pm

wilfred gomes

Wilfred Gomes is the co-founder, CEO, and president of Mueon Corporation, a next-generation infrastructure startup rethinking how data centers are built for the AI era. The company’s flagship innovation, Cubelets™, modular, stackable units that unite compute, memory, power delivery and thermal management, replace the … Read More


Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Cognitum Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence

Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Cognitum Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2025 at 10:00 am

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One of the more in interesting companies I met at the AI Infra Summit was a company known to me for some time. The most interesting part was the chip they are in the process of taping out; It is a high-performance, ultra-low-power AI processor purpose-built for edge computing. It is claimed to deliver “the processing muscle … Read More