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On October 15–16, at the tail end of SEMICON West 2026, PDF Solutions held its 2026 CONNECT Conference at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.
PDF Solutions Vitals
Santa Clara–based PDF Solutions is a semiconductor data, analytics, and connectivity company, founded in 1991. Today, its business rests on three pillars, all … Read More
by Ajay Kumar Govindaram
There’s a question I’ve started asking at every agentic AI demo I sit through, and it has a clean answer in every fab on earth: who is allowed to change the recipe? In a semiconductor factory, that was settled decades ago. A person doesn’t touch a production recipe because they feel confident.… Read More
Daniel is joined by Kimon W. Michaels, a prominent figure in the semiconductor industry, currently serving as the Executive Vice President of Products and Solutions at PDF Solutions, Inc. He co-founded the company and has held various leadership roles, including Vice President of Design for Manufacturability since June 2007.… Read More
On October 15 and 16, 2026, in San Francisco, PDF Solutions will hold PDF Solutions CONNECT, the premier event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI. This event starts at the end of SEMICON WEST 2026 in a location in close proximity to the Moscone Center. It is a great opportunity for leading semiconductor and equipment companies attending… Read More
The semiconductor industry is entering a period in which manufacturing leadership will depend not simply on producing more data, but on turning that data into timely, trustworthy decisions. PDF Solutions CONNECT 2026 is designed around this challenge. Taking place October 15–16 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, the… Read More
The semiconductor industry doesn’t have a shortage of data. It has a shortage of ways to turn that data into useful manufacturing insights quickly enough to matter.
That is the problem PDF Solutions’ Exensio solution has addressed for years. Built specifically for semiconductor manufacturing, Exensio brings … Read More
Every generation of semiconductor innovation has relied on one fundamental principle: before a technology can be manufactured at scale, it must first be understood. That understanding comes through characterization.
For decades, characterization enabled process learning. It helped engineers understand transistor behavior,… Read More
One of the most difficult things to do in life is ask for help. This is inherently a big problem in the semiconductor industry dating back to the IDM days where silos of secrecy were established. As a result Intel has struggled with yield since the 14nm FinFET process nodes.
On the outside PDF Solutions is a publicly traded semiconductor… Read More
The semiconductor industry is entering a new era in which advanced packaging and chiplets-based architectures are becoming the primary drivers of system-level innovation. As traditional process-node scaling becomes increasingly complex and expensive, manufacturers are turning to heterogeneous integration, combining… Read More
Agentic AI is often presented as a revolutionary shift in semiconductor manufacturing, driven by large language models and generative AI. However, this framing overlooks an important reality: today’s advances are built on decades of prior work. As Jonathan Holt of PDF Solutions emphasizes in his recent keynote at the APCM 2026… Read More