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2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology

2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2025 at 10:00 am

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am Rui Tang, co-founder and VP of MSquare Technology. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, I bring over 23 years of experience in the IC industry. Prior to MSquare,… Read More


Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Address Growing Chip Complexity

Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Address Growing Chip Complexity
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-25-2025 at 6:00 am

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Last week, Synopsys announced an expansion of their Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to accelerate semiconductor design innovations. These advancements are designed to meet the increasing demands of semiconductor complexity, enabling faster and more efficient verification across software and hardware… Read More


How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-24-2025 at 10:00 am

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have undergone incredible changes over the past decade or so. We’ve witnessed the rise of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. More recently, the rise of generative AI and transformers. At every step, accuracy has been improved as depicted in the graphic… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More


2025 Outlook with Paul Wells of sureCore

2025 Outlook with Paul Wells of sureCore
by Daniel Nenni on 02-19-2025 at 8:00 am

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Paul Wells, CEO at sureCore, an ultra-low power memory specialist, has been involved in the semiconductor industry for over 35 years. Previously, he has worked as Director of Engineering for Pace Networks where he led a multidisciplinary product development team creating a broadcast quality video and data mini-headend. Before… Read More


Arteris Raises Bar Again with AI-Based NoC Design

Arteris Raises Bar Again with AI-Based NoC Design
by Bernard Murphy on 02-19-2025 at 6:00 am

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Modern semiconductor devices, a far cry from the chips we once knew, are now highly complex intelligent systems used in datacenters, communications infrastructure, in consumer electronics, automotive, home and office automation, almost everywhere. All such applications build around large subsystems, invariably compute,… Read More


2025 Outlook with Veerbhan Kheterpal of Quadric

2025 Outlook with Veerbhan Kheterpal of Quadric
by Daniel Nenni on 02-18-2025 at 10:00 am

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Quadric Inc. is the leading licensor of general-purpose neural processor IP (GPNPU) that runs both machine learning inference workloads and classic DSP and control algorithms.  Quadric’s unified hardware and software architecture is optimized for on-device ML inference. Veerbhan Kheterpal is the CEO and one of the co-founders… Read More


Synopsys Expands Optical Interfaces at DesignCon

Synopsys Expands Optical Interfaces at DesignCon
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-17-2025 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Expands Optical Interfaces at DesignCon

The exponential growth of cloud data centers is well-known. Driven by the demands of massive applications like generative AI, state-of-the-art data centers present substantial challenges in terms of power consumption. And AI is poised to drive a 160% increase in data center power demand while also increasing demands on storage… Read More


Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs

Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 02-13-2025 at 10:00 am

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The growing demand for high-performance AI applications continues to drive innovation in CPU architecture design. As machine learning workloads, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), become more computationally intensive, architects face the challenge of delivering performance improvements while maintaining… Read More


An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2

An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2
by Jonah McLeod on 02-13-2025 at 6:00 am

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As RISC-V gains traction in the global semiconductor industry, developers are exploring fully open-source approaches to processor design. XiangShan, a high-performance RISC-V CPU project, combined with the Mulan Permissive License v2 (Mulan PSL v2), represents a community-driven, transparent alternative to proprietary… Read More