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Flynn Was Right: How a 2003 Warning Foretold Today’s Architectural Pivot

Flynn Was Right: How a 2003 Warning Foretold Today’s Architectural Pivot
by Jonah McLeod on 06-24-2025 at 10:00 am

Table 1

In 2003, legendary computer architect Michael J. Flynn issued a warning that most of the industry wasn’t ready to hear. The relentless march toward more complex CPUs—with speculative execution, deep pipelines, and bloated instruction handling—was becoming unsustainable. In a paper titled “Computer Architecture … Read More


DAC News – A New Era of Electronic Design Begins with Siemens EDA AI

DAC News – A New Era of Electronic Design Begins with Siemens EDA AI
by Mike Gianfagna on 06-23-2025 at 10:00 am

DAC News – A New Era of Electronic Design Begins with Siemens EDA AI

AI is the centerpiece of DAC this year. How to design chips to bring AI algorithms to life, how to prevent AI from hacking those chips, and of course how to use AI to design AI chips. In this latter category, there were many presentations, product announcements and demonstrations. I was impressed by many of them. But an important observation… Read More


Arteris Expands Their Multi-Die Support

Arteris Expands Their Multi-Die Support
by Bernard Murphy on 06-18-2025 at 6:00 am

multi die use cases min

I am tracking the shift to multi-die design, so it’s good to see Arteris extend their NoC expertise, connecting chiplets across an interposer. After all, network connectivity needs don’t stop at the boundaries of chiplets. A multi-die package is at a logical level just a scaled-up SoC for which you still need traffic routing and… Read More


Caspia Technologies at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

Caspia Technologies at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
by Mike Gianfagna on 06-12-2025 at 10:00 am

Caspia Technologies at the 2025 Design Automation Conference

Security will be an important topic at DAC this year. The hardware root of trust is the foundation of all security for complex systems implementing AI workloads. Thanks to new and sophisticated techniques the hardware root of trust is now vulnerable and must be protected. But adding deep security verification to existing design… Read More


A Novel Approach to Future Proofing AI Hardware

A Novel Approach to Future Proofing AI Hardware
by Bernard Murphy on 06-11-2025 at 6:00 am

Tensilica NeuroEdge min

There is a built-in challenge for edge AI intended for long time-in-service markets. Automotive applications are the obvious example, while aerospace and perhaps medical usage may impose similar demands. Support for the advanced AI methods we now expect – transformers, physical and agentic AI – is not feasible without dedicated… Read More


Siemens EDA Outlines Strategic Direction for an AI-Powered, Software-Defined, Silicon-Enabled Future

Siemens EDA Outlines Strategic Direction for an AI-Powered, Software-Defined, Silicon-Enabled Future
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-09-2025 at 6:00 am

Software defined Systems of Systems

In a keynote delivered at this year’s Siemens EDA User2User event, CEO Mike Ellow presented a focused vision for the evolving role of electronic design automation (EDA) within the broader context of global technology shifts. The session covered Siemens EDA’s current trajectory, market strategy, and the changing landscape … Read More


Arm Reveals Zena Automotive Compute Subsystem

Arm Reveals Zena Automotive Compute Subsystem
by Bernard Murphy on 06-05-2025 at 6:00 am

Zena CSS min

Last year Arm announced their support for standards-based virtual prototyping in automotive, along with a portfolio of new AE (automotive enhanced) cores. They also suggested that in 2025 they would be following Arm directions in other LOBs by offering integrated compute subsystems (CSS). Now they have delivered: their Zena… Read More


Anirudh Fireside Chats with Jensen and Lip-Bu at CadenceLIVE 2025

Anirudh Fireside Chats with Jensen and Lip-Bu at CadenceLIVE 2025
by Bernard Murphy on 06-04-2025 at 6:00 am

Anirudh with Jensen and Lip Bu

Anirudh (Cadence President and CEO) had two fireside chats during CadenceLIVE 2025, the first with Jensen Huang (Founder and CEO of NVIDIA) to kick off the show, and later in the day with Lip-Bu Tan (CEO of Intel). Of course Jensen and Lip-Bu also turn up for other big vendor shows but I was reminded that there is something special about… Read More


The SemiWiki 62nd DAC Preview

The SemiWiki 62nd DAC Preview
by Daniel Nenni on 06-02-2025 at 6:00 am

62nd DAC SemiWiki

After being held in San Francisco since the pandemic the beloved Design Automation Conference will be on the move again. In 2026 DAC will be held in Huntington Beach. For you non-California natives, Huntington Beach is a California city Southeast of Los Angeles. It’s known for surf beaches and its long Huntington Beach Pier.… Read More


Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000

Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000
by Bernard Murphy on 05-29-2025 at 6:00 am

Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000

Another content-rich kickoff covering a lot of bases under three main themes: the new Millennium AI supercomputer release, a moonshot towards full autonomy in chip design exploiting agentic AI, and a growing emphasis on digital twins. Cadence President and CEO Anirudh Devgan touched on what is new today, and also market directions… Read More