It is hard to believe this conference is older than most all of the participants, including myself. The amount of history behind this conference is amazing. Back in 1955 the meeting began as the Electron Devices Meeting (EDM), organized by what later became the IEEE Electron Devices Society. Its core purpose was to bring together… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
Podcast EP329: How Marvell is Addressing the Power Problem for Advanced Data Centers with Mark Kuemerle
Daniel is joined by Mark Kuemerle, Vice President of Technology, Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell. Mark is responsible for defining leading-edge ASIC offerings and architects system-level solutions. Before joining Marvell, Mark was a Fellow in Integrated Systems Architecture at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and has held multiple engineering… Read More
2025 Retrospective. Innovation in Verification
As usual in January we start with a look back at the papers we reviewed last year. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.
Looking back at 2025
… Read MoreSynopsys’ Secure Storage Solution for OTP IP
For decades, One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory has been viewed as a foundational element of hardware security. Because OTP can be written only once and cannot be modified afterward, it has traditionally been trusted to store cryptographic keys, secure boot code, device identity, and configuration data. Permanence was often… Read More
Hierarchical Device Planning as an Enabler of System Technology Co-Optimization
AI, hyperscale data centers, and data-intensive workloads are driving unprecedented demands for performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. As the economic returns of traditional transistor scaling diminish, advanced IC packaging and heterogeneous integration have become the primary levers for system-level scaling.… Read More
Agentic at the Edge in Automotive and Industry
It might seem from popular debate around AI and agentic that everything in this field is purely digital, initiated through text or voice prompts, often cloud-based or on-prem. But that view misses so much. AI is already an everyday experience at the edge, for voice-based control, in object detection and safety-triggered braking… Read More
Podcast EP328:A Brief History of Chip Design and AI with Dr. Bernard Murphy
Daniel is joined by Dr. Bernard Murphy, a friend and fellow blogger on SemiWiki.
Dan explores some key milestones in Bernard’s journey in semiconductors and EDA, beginning with a focus on nuclear physics. Bernard explains how he developed an interest in AI technology and applications. In this broad and informative discussion,… Read More
Arteris Smart NoC Automation: Accelerating AI-Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplets
As semiconductor design pushes into increasingly complex territory, driven by Ai, ML, HPC, and heterogeneous system architectures, designers are challenged to balance performance, power, and time-to-market pressures. In this landscape, network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have emerged as a foundational building block… Read More
Manufacturing Is Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Semiconductor Front Lines
This article is an editorial synthesis of a fireside chat between Tom Caulfield, Executive Chairman of GlobalFoundries, and John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions that took place on December 3rd 2025, during the PDF Solutions Users Conference. John Kibarian led the conversation to get Tom Caulfield’s perspectives on leadership… Read More
Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP
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


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