In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the security of electronic systems is of the highest priority. This importance is underscored by technological advancements and increasing regulatory demands. Multi-die designs which integrate multiple dies (also called chiplets) into a single package, introduce … Read More
Synopsys Executive Forum: Driving Silicon and Systems Engineering Innovation
The annual SNUG (Synopsys Users Group) conference, now in its 35th year, once again brought together key stakeholders to showcase accomplishments, discuss challenges, and explore opportunities within the semiconductor and electronics industry. With approximately 2,500 attendees, SNUG 2025 served as a dynamic hub for collaboration… Read More
Compute and Communications Perspectives on Automotive Trends
Automotive electronics is a fast-moving space, especially around sensing and distilling intelligence from that sensing. This serves three main pillars: autonomy, electrification and advances in the car cockpit. Autonomy at multiple levels remains an important goal and continues to advance, technically and geographically.… Read More
Powering the Future: How Engineered Substrates and Material Innovation Drive the Semiconductor Revolution
Engineered substrate technology is driving an evolution within the semiconductor industry. As Moore’s Law reaches its limits, the focus is shifting from traditional planar wafer scaling to innovative material engineering and 3D integration. Companies like Soitec, Intel and Samsung are pioneering this transition, unlocking… Read More
2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am Rui Tang, co-founder and VP of MSquare Technology. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, I bring over 23 years of experience in the IC industry. Prior to MSquare,… Read More
Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Address Growing Chip Complexity
Last week, Synopsys announced an expansion of their Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to accelerate semiconductor design innovations. These advancements are designed to meet the increasing demands of semiconductor complexity, enabling faster and more efficient verification across software and hardware… Read More
Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More
Outlook 2025 with David Hwang of Alchip
Dave Hwang joined Alchip in 2021 as General Manager of Alchip’s North America Business Unit. He also serves as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Prior to join Alchip, Dave served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Global Unichip and in a variety of management and technical roles at TSMC. He holds… Read More
2025 Outlook Anna Fontanelli MZ Technologies
Anna Fontanelli, CEO of MZ Technologies, is a silicon executive with more than 35 years of expertise in managing complex R&D organizations/programs to give birth to innovative EDA technologies. Strong communication skills and proven ability to lead distributed, cross functional teams in international environments.… Read More
Embracing the Chiplet Journey: The Shift to Chiplet-Based Architectures
The semiconductor industry is facing a paradigm shift. Traditional scaling, once driven by Moore’s Law, is slowing down. For years, moving to smaller process nodes led to lower transistor costs and better performance. However, scaling from node to node now offers fewer benefits as wafer costs rise much more than the historical… Read More
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