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
TSMC’s 2026 AZ Exclusive Experience Day: Bridging Careers and Semiconductor Innovation
In February of 2026, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will host the TSMC AZ Exclusive Experience Day in Phoenix, Arizona, offering selected participants a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing organizations in the world. The event will serve as an immersive… Read More
DAC – The Chips to Systems Conference 2026
The Design Automation Chips to Systems Conference is the preeminent international event for professionals involved in electronic design, system architecture, and EDA. Formerly known simply as the Design Automation Conference or DAC has evolved over more than six decades into a forward-looking forum that spans the entire… Read More
Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension
The rapid growth of signal processing workloads in embedded, mobile, and edge computing systems has intensified the need for efficient, low-latency computation. Rich Fuhler’s update on the RISC-V Packed SIMD extension highlights why scalar SIMD digital signal processing (DSP) instructions are becoming a critical architectural… Read More
Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV Debug
Verification has become the dominant bottleneck in modern chip design. As much as 70% of the overall design cycle is now spent on verification, a figure driven upward by increasing design complexity, compressed schedules, and a chronic shortage of design verification (DV) engineering bandwidth. Modern chips generate thousands… Read More
Last Call: Why Your Real‑World Lessons Belong in DAC 2026’s Engineering
By Frank Schirrmeister, Synopsys
Disclaimer: This article is written in my role as Engineering Track Chair for DAC 2026
If you’ve ever walked out of DAC with a handful of practical ideas you could put to work when you return to work, you already know the value of the Engineering Track. It’s where practitioners talk to practitioners… Read More
CES 2026 and all things Cycling
I just completed the annual Rapha 500 Challenge on Strava by cycling 869 km in eight days, so it’s time to give you my annual recap of CES 2026 and all things cycling. Similar to previous years the big push again in 2026 are e-bikes and even e-motos. The AI acronym was everywhere too in product names and announcements as physical… Read More
Podcast EP326: How PhotonDelta is Advancing the Use of Photonic Chip Technology with Jorn Smeets
Daniel is joined by Jorn Smeets, Managing Director for North America at PhotonDelta, an industry accelerator for photonic chip technology. Based in Silicon Valley, his mission is to advance the photonic chip industry by fostering collaboration between European and North American entities.
Dan explores the focus of PhotonDelta… Read More
Webinar: Why AI-Assisted Security Verification For Chip Design is So Important
It is well-known that AI is everywhere, and the incredible power of this new technology is enabled by highly complex, purpose-built silicon. But there is a silent enemy of this substantial, world-changing progress. Something that has the power to steal a bright future from all of us. The hardware root of trust for those advanced… Read More
Nvidia Overcoming the Challenges of Blending Hardware Verification Expertise with AI and ML
Hardware verification has always been one of the most demanding phases of system design, but today it faces an unprecedented crisis. As hardware systems grow exponentially in complexity verification resources, time, compute, and human expertise, scale far more slowly. This widening gap has resulted in endless regression … Read More


The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again