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2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics

2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
by Daniel Nenni on 01-08-2026 at 10:00 am

Volker Politz Semidynamics

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

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

CEO Interview with Rabin Sugumar of Akeana
by Daniel Nenni on 01-06-2026 at 10:00 am

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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

Chips&Media and Visionary.ai Unveil the World’s First AI-Based Full Image Signal Processor, Redefining the Future of Image Quality
by Daniel Nenni on 01-05-2026 at 12:00 pm

AI Chips&Media Visionary AI


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


2026 Outlook With Mahesh Tirupattur of Analog Bits

2026 Outlook With Mahesh Tirupattur of Analog Bits
by Daniel Nenni on 01-05-2026 at 6:00 am

Mahesh Tirupattur Analog Bits

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

As CEO of Analog Bits, I am quite excited to be at the helm of a company that plays a critical role in managing power both efficiently and in an intelligent manner.  The sustainability challenges resulting from the explosive growth in AI demand this. I joined the company over 22… Read More


Tiling Support in SiFive’s AI/ML Software Stack for RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension

Tiling Support in SiFive’s AI/ML Software Stack for RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension
by Daniel Nenni on 12-31-2025 at 10:00 am

SiFive AI ML RISC V Summit 2025

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, Min Hsu, Staff Compiler Engineer at SiFive, presented on enhancing tiling support within SiFive’s AI/ML software stack for the RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension (VME). This extension aims to boost matrix multiplication efficiency, a cornerstone of AI workloads. SiFive’s… Read More


RISC-V Extensions for AI: Enhancing Performance in Machine Learning

RISC-V Extensions for AI: Enhancing Performance in Machine Learning
by Daniel Nenni on 12-30-2025 at 10:00 am

SiFive Risc V Summit 2025

In a presentation at the RISC-V Summit North America 2025, John Simpson, Senior Principal Architect at SiFive, delved into the evolving landscape of RISC-V extensions tailored for artificial intelligence and machine learning. RISC-V’s open architecture has fueled its adoption in AI/ML markets by allowing customization… Read More


CISCO ASIC Success with Synopsys SLM IPs

CISCO ASIC Success with Synopsys SLM IPs
by Daniel Nenni on 12-29-2025 at 10:00 am

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Cisco’s relentless push toward higher-performance networking silicon has placed extraordinary demands on its ASIC design methodology. As transistor densities continue to rise across advanced SoCs, traditional design-time guardbands are no longer sufficient to ensure long-term reliability, consistent performance,

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RISC-V: Powering the Era of Intelligent General Computing

RISC-V: Powering the Era of Intelligent General Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 12-29-2025 at 8:00 am

Andes RISC V Summit 2025 Charlie Su

Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology, delivered a compelling keynote at the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, asserting that RISC-V is primed to drive the burgeoning field of Intelligent General Computing. This emerging paradigm integrates AI and machine learning into everyday computing devices, from AI-enabled… Read More


Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V

Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
by Daniel Nenni on 12-25-2025 at 10:00 am

RISC V Summit 2025 David Patterson

In a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V Summit, computer architecture legend David Patterson took the audience on a captivating trip back to 1981, using scanned versions of his original overhead transparencies to recount the birth of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at UC Berkeley.

Patterson began with humor, noting… Read More


Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon

Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Google RISC V in Datacenter 2025

In an engaging presentation at a recent RISC-V summit, Martin Dixon, Google’s Director of Data Center Performance Engineering, took the audience on a metaphorical “road trip” to explore the company’s vision for integrating RISC-V into its massive warehouse-scale computing infrastructure. Drawing… Read More