I was invited to listen in on an event hosted by Fujitsu and Quantum Insider on the reality of Quantum Computing (QC) in financial services today. This market is a good test for QC since multiple possible high value applications have been suggested. The panel was chaired by Brian Lenehan, (Founder and Chair, Quantum Strategy Institute),… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
Podcast EP339: Unique Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Technology from EdgeCortix with Dr. Sakya Dasgupta
Daniel is joined by Dr. Sakya Dasgupta, CEO and founder of EdgeCortix. He is a seasoned technologist who has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence systems for the past two decades. His experience spans public research institutes such as The Max Planck Society and RIKEN, as well as leading corporations like Microsoft… Read More
Architecting Intelligence: The Rise of RISC-V CPUs in Agentic AI Infrastructure
SiFive’s newly announced $400 million Series G financing represents a significant technical inflection point for high-performance RISC-V CPU development targeted at agentic AI data center workloads. The funding, which values the company at $3.65 billion, is specifically intended to accelerate next-generation CPU IP, … Read More
Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs
Agentic AI workloads are reshaping the compute requirements of modern data center infrastructure by shifting performance bottlenecks from GPU-centric inference to CPU-heavy orchestration and workflow management. Traditional AI inference pipelines relied primarily on GPUs performing a single forward pass, where input… Read More
Accellera Updates at DVCon 2026
Lu Dai (chair of Accellera) and I had our regular chat at DVCon U.S. 2026. Accellera also hosted a reception in the exhibits hall, with free snacks and drinks, very well attended. We talked about what’s new in Accellera, with a particular emphasis on the recently released standard for CDC and RDC tool interoperability, also Lu’s … Read More
yieldWerx Delivers a Master Class in Co-Packaged Photonics Implementation
We all know the semiconductor industry is seeing a new era of data intensity. The industry’s response includes advanced semiconductor design strategies, the adoption of chiplets, and the integration of optical I/O and photonics to enable higher performance, faster AI computation, and increased modularity. Co-packaged photonics… Read More
RISC-V Has Momentum. The Real Question Is Who Can Deliver
RISC-V has momentum. The industry knows it. The harder question is: who can actually deliver when and where it matters?
A Shift That Changes the Stakes
On March 24, 2026, Arm made something explicit: it is now a silicon company. After decades as a neutral IP provider, Arm is moving up the stack. It’s building chips and complete solutions,… Read More
Samtec’s Strong Presence at embedded world 2026
The embedded world Exhibition & Conference recently concluded. The event is held annually in Nuremberg, Germany and has become one of the most influential gatherings for the global embedded systems community. Since its inception in 2003, the event has grown from a modest technical meeting into a large-scale international… Read More
Nuclear Power and Design Automation
A couple of folks have asked me to write on nuclear power. Nuclear offers additional sources for power generation, a pressing concern thanks to demand from giant data centers. Also, investment by Microsoft, Sam Altman and others signals their urgency to accelerate past slow moving utilities plans. I have some background in this… Read More
Synopsys Advances Hardware Assisted Verification for the AI Era
At the 2026 Synopsys Converge Event, Synopsys announced a broad set of new products and platform upgrades, with its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) announcement emerging as a key highlight within that lineup. A key aspect of this announcement was moving beyond a hardware centric model to a more scalable, programmable … Read More


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