I’m Steve Kim, the CEO of Chips&Media. I’ve been immersed in the multimedia imaging industry for approximately two decades. Prior to joining Chips&Media, I spent over five years working within handset manufacturing companies. Following more than ten years here at Chips&Media in roles spanning Marketing, Sales,… Read More
Semiconductor Intellectual Property
NXP Expands Arteris NoC Deployment to Scale Edge AI Architectures
As edge AI systems become more centralized and compute-dense, on-chip data movement is increasingly the architectural bottleneck. NXP’s expanded deployment of Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) and cache-coherent interconnect IP highlights a broader industry trend: interconnect architecture is now a first-order design … Read More
Architecting Intelligence: The Rise of RISC-V CPUs in Agentic AI Infrastructure
SiFive’s newly announced $400 million Series G financing represents a significant technical inflection point for high-performance RISC-V CPU development targeted at agentic AI data center workloads. The funding, which values the company at $3.65 billion, is specifically intended to accelerate next-generation CPU IP, … Read More
When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives
Marc Evans, Director of Business Development & Marketing, Andes Technology USA
I work at a RISC-V IP company, and I genuinely root for Arm — probably more than most people in my position would admit. Not because I’m confused about who competes with whom, but because Arm’s best move for their shareholders is also… Read More
RISC-V Has Momentum. The Real Question Is Who Can Deliver
RISC-V has momentum. The industry knows it. The harder question is: who can actually deliver when and where it matters?
A Shift That Changes the Stakes
On March 24, 2026, Arm made something explicit: it is now a silicon company. After decades as a neutral IP provider, Arm is moving up the stack. It’s building chips and complete solutions,… Read More
RISC-V Now! — Where Specification Meets Scale!
In forty plus years as a semiconductor professional I have never seen a semiconductor design ecosystem build as fast and as strong as RISC-V. As a result, RISC-V Now! has emerged as a pivotal gathering, a conference with a clear and ambitious mission: To transform the open, modular, and flexible RISC-V ISA from an exciting specification… Read More
Podcast EP337: The Importance of Network Communications to Enable AI Workloads with Abhinav Kothiala
Daniel is joined by Abhinav Kothiala, a principal product manager for the Synopsys Ethernet IP portfolio. He has over 12 years of experience across engineering and product management, spanning SoC design, functional verification, and building wireless connectivity platforms and IoT products. He also holds two patents in… Read More
Synopsys Advances Hardware Assisted Verification for the AI Era
At the 2026 Synopsys Converge Event, Synopsys announced a broad set of new products and platform upgrades, with its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) announcement emerging as a key highlight within that lineup. A key aspect of this announcement was moving beyond a hardware centric model to a more scalable, programmable … Read More
Securing UALink in AI clusters with UALinkSec-compliant IP
A classic networking problem is securing connections with encrypted data, but implementing strong encryption algorithms at wire speeds can limit performance. However, introducing blazing-fast connectivity without an encryption strategy leaves systems vulnerable. The architects in the UALink Consortium, including … Read More
Arteris Highlights a Path to Scalable Multi-Die Systems at the Chiplet Summit
At the recent Chiplet Summit, presentations, discussions and general participation could be broken down into a few broad categories. There were presentations of actual chiplet designs, either as building blocks or end products. There were presentations regarding design tools and methodologies to support and accelerate … Read More


Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center