The rapid growth of AI at the edge is forcing SoC architects to rethink traditional processor designs. Dedicated NPUs deliver impressive performance for today’s models, but evolving AI workloads, increasing system complexity and growing pressure on power and silicon budgets are exposing the limitations of fixed-function… Read More
Semiconductor Intellectual Property
From Blueprint to Production: How Rambus Brings Commercial-Grade Caliptra Security to AI SoCs
Semiconductor designers today face a critical hurdle: how to smoothly transition from an open-source hardware blueprint to a commercially hardened, production-ready silicon implementation. As semiconductors play an increasingly essential role in powering the AI era, safeguarding these hardware foundations has become… Read More
Significant Performance Gains Reinforce Imagination’s GPU-First Strategy
Imagination Technologies’ first performance figures for its E-Series GPU IP turn its “GPU-first” strategy from an architectural proposition into a measurable product claim. The company is arguing that edge systems do not need separate, lightly utilised blocks for graphics, general compute and artificial intelligence. … Read More
SiFive and AMD Bring ROCm to RISC-V Datacenter Servers—and Why It Matters
SiFive and AMD demonstrated an AI workload that brings together two open technologies: the RISC-V processor architecture and AMD’s ROCm GPU software platform. At the AI Infra Summit on September 15, 2026, the companies showed ROCm 10.0 running on SiFive’s BigSky datacenter development server. SiFive P870-D CPUs served as the… Read More
Managing Power, Performance and Reliability in the Chiplet Era
Next-gen AI accelerators, high-performance processors, and complex computing architectures depend heavily on advanced packaging. Bringing multiple dies, chiplets, high-bandwidth memory, and advanced interconnects together into a single 2.5D or 3D package yields massive performance gains. However, this design evolution… Read More
Synopsys Announces AgentEngineer Solutions and Autopilot Platform for Autonomous Engineering
Synopsys today announced its AgentEngineerTM solutions portfolio and AutopilotTM Platform, advancing a fundamental paradigm shift in electronic design automation (EDA): moving beyond AI copilots toward autonomous engineering agents. Following a recent technical briefing with Thomas Andersen, Vice President of AI and… Read More
Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together
When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today, Silicon Creations has grown to nearly 200 employees across multiple locations and serves almost 600 customers… Read More
The Intelligence Revolution: TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Forges the Path to Trillion-Transistor AI Systems
At the 2026 OIP Ecosystem Forum, the industry narrative shifted from incremental scaling to what TSMC defines as the “Intelligence Revolution.” Akin to the 18th-century Industrial Revolution which transitioned human physical labor to mechanical power, the current era is augmenting human ingenuity through … Read More
Weebit Nano’s FY26 ESG Performance: Technical Progress and Strategic Importance
Weebit Nano’s FY26 ESG Report shows how sustainability, governance and operational resilience are becoming integrated into the company’s commercialisation of resistive random-access memory (ReRAM). This integration matters because Weebit’s value is not derived from manufacturing and selling finished chips directly.… Read More
Analog Bits Targets the Power Challenge at the Heart of Next-Generation Chips
Analog Bits is expanding its role in advanced semiconductor design with new intellectual property aimed at one of the industry’s most difficult problems: delivering, monitoring, and managing power inside increasingly complex chips.
The company announced that its IP will be included in an upcoming customer test-chip tapeout… Read More


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