In a strategic move that could reshape the future of AI data center design, SiFive, a leading developer of RISC-V processor IP and compute subsystems, has announced plans to integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its high-performance data center platforms. This collaboration bridges the open-architecture… Read More
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2026 Outlook with Krishna Anne of Agile Analog
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I have worked in the global semiconductor industry for over 30 years, with major semiconductor companies such as Rambus, AMD and Broadcom, as well as with start-ups such as SCI Semiconductor and DataTrails. I started my career as a digital circuit designer, then moved into marketing,… 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
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
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
2026 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations
Randy Caplan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with 500+ customers spanning almost every major market segment. He has driven the development of key technologies … Read More
Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space
Space applications are booming, prompted by rapidly declining launch costs now attainable through commercial competition. Thanks to ventures like SpaceX, the cost to put a satellite into low earth orbit (LEO) has dropped from $20k/kg to $2k/kg today and is expected to drop further to $200/kg or lower. Plummeting costs drive … Read More
2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
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I am the Chief Sales Officer for Semidynamics and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process.
Semidynamics was founded in 2016 as a design service company with a focus on RISC-V. This was so successful that the CEO decided to pivot the company towards its own … Read More
CEO Interview with Rabin Sugumar of Akeana
Rabin Sugumar was Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect at Marvell/Cavium and built and led the architecture group for the ThunderX Arm server processor line. Most recently he led the architecture of the ThunderX3 processor, which had industry leading single thread performance and socket level performance at time of … Read More
Chips&Media and Visionary.ai Unveil the World’s First AI-Based Full Image Signal Processor, Redefining the Future of Image Quality
In a groundbreaking announcement that is poised to transform digital imaging, Chips&Media, a leading provider of video codec and image processing hardware IP, has partnered with Visionary.ai, an innovative startup specializing in AI-driven vision technology, to unveil the world’s first fully AI-based Image Signal … Read More


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