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DAC 2026: The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel

DAC 2026: The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-31-2026 at 10:00 am

DAC 2026 The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel

For quite a few years, John Cooley has hosted the Troublemaker Panel at DAC. The event consists of a panel of senior executives from the EDA industry. John Cooley asks his readers for “edgy” questions to ask the panelists and on event day, he does just that. Those with complete responses that are backed with real data from real customers… Read More


Previewing FMS 2026: The Next Frontier of Enterprise Memory, CXL, and AI-Era Storage

Previewing FMS 2026: The Next Frontier of Enterprise Memory, CXL, and AI-Era Storage
by Daniel Nenni on 07-29-2026 at 10:00 am

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For anyone tracking enterprise infrastructure, the storage landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. The explosive growth of generative AI, multi-million token context windows, and massive data-centric workloads have pushed traditional memory and storage architectures to their absolute limits.

This August, the industry… Read More


Must-See DAC Panel – Build vs Buy: Who Owns the Intelligence Behind Tomorrow’s Chips?

Must-See DAC Panel – Build vs Buy: Who Owns the Intelligence Behind Tomorrow’s Chips?
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-23-2026 at 10:00 am

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This year, DAC will be buzzing about AI from every direction. The debate of build vs. buy will also be a popular topic. And the debate of who owns the intellectual property embodied in chip designs and how to control it will also get a significant amount of airtime. These are all interesting and compelling discussion points. It turns… Read More


BRONCO AI: WIN THE RACE TO TAPE-OUT | BOOTH 935

BRONCO AI: WIN THE RACE TO TAPE-OUT | BOOTH 935
by Daniel Nenni on 07-23-2026 at 8:00 am

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Bronco AI builds AI agents for chip design and verification. Our goal is to get teams from spec to RTL-freeze as fast as possible by surfacing the nastiest bugs sooner and fixing them faster.

Our agents work the way strong engineers do: they read the spec, form hypotheses, run experiments, and chase a problem until it is root-caused,… Read More


Agentrys Weighs in on LLM Benchmarking for Chip Design at DAC 2026

Agentrys Weighs in on LLM Benchmarking for Chip Design at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-22-2026 at 2:00 pm

Agentrys Weighs in on LLM Benchmarking for Chip Design at DAC 2026

Si2 is conducting quite a few sessions at DAC this year covering everything from power model standards to agentic AI. There is one session that is a bit different, focusing on LLM benchmarking. Since AI is popping up everywhere, the ability to accurately assess and measure the quality of new models becomes more important. That’s… Read More


See Defacto Technologies at DAC 2026

See Defacto Technologies at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-20-2026 at 2:00 pm

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I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design.

From my perspective, Defacto’s technology is designed to improve productivity and design quality by enabling … Read More


Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven Design

Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven Design
by Daniel Nenni on 07-20-2026 at 10:00 am

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Keysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference this year as a Silver Sponsor and an “I LOVE DAC” sponsor, bringing its Design Engineering Software portfolio to Booth #927 at DAC 2026, which runs July 26-29 in Long Beach, Calif. The Keysight team will be on-site Monday through Wednesday … Read More


Tuple Technologies Develops AI-powered Infrastructure at 2026 DAC

Tuple Technologies Develops AI-powered Infrastructure at 2026 DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 07-20-2026 at 6:00 am

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Tuple Technologies develops AI-powered infrastructure and operations platforms specifically designed for semiconductor companies. The company’s solutions help engineering organizations simplify CAD infrastructure management, optimize cloud resources, improve security and compliance, and reduce operational… Read More


Agentrys a New Paradigm for Semiconductor Engineering at 2026 DAC

Agentrys a New Paradigm for Semiconductor Engineering at 2026 DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 07-16-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA), a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms. Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL and … Read More


DAC 2026 See Analog Bits TSMC N2P IP portfolio and meet with its engineering experts!

DAC 2026 See Analog Bits TSMC N2P IP portfolio and meet with its engineering experts!
by Daniel Nenni on 07-15-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Analog Bits, Inc. is an established provider of mixed-signal semiconductor IP that integrates into advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs to enable intelligent energy and power management. Its full portfolio of IP blocks includes precision clocking macros, power and temperature sensors including LDO and regulators, programmable… Read More