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CEO Interview with Kit Merker of Plainsight

CEO Interview with Kit Merker of Plainsight
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2025 at 11:00 am

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Kit Merker is a technology industry leader with over 20 years of experience building software products. He serves as CEO of Plainsight Technologies and previously held senior positions at Nobl9, JFrog, Google and Microsoft.

Tell us about your company.

Plainsight is focused on making computer vision accessible and scalable … Read More


CEO Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck of Quobyte

CEO Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck of Quobyte
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2025 at 10:00 am

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Bjorn Kolbeck received a PhD in Computer Science from Humboldt University in Berlin. Bjorn had previously worked at HPC centers and at Google. His experience with hyperscale architectures led him to co-found Quobyte in 2013.

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Quobyte is scale-out storage, and was designed for massive scalability and… Read More


Video EP7: The impact of Undo’s Time Travel Debugging with Greg Law

Video EP7: The impact of Undo’s Time Travel Debugging with Greg Law
by Daniel Nenni on 05-30-2025 at 10:00 am

In this episode of the Semiconductor Insiders video series, Dan is joined by Dr Greg Law, CEO of Undo, He is a C++ debugging expert, well-known conference speaker, and the founder of Undo. Greg explains the history of Undo, initially as a provider of software development and debugging tools for software vendors. He explains that… Read More


Podcast EP289: An Overview of How Highwire Helps to Deliver Advanced Fabs with Less Cost, Time and Risk with David Tibbetts

Podcast EP289: An Overview of How Highwire Helps to Deliver Advanced Fabs with Less Cost, Time and Risk with David Tibbetts
by Daniel Nenni on 05-30-2025 at 6:00 am

Dan is joined by David Tibbetts, Chief Safety Officer at Highwire. David is a Certified Safety Professional with 20+ years of occupational safety experience in both general industry and construction settings. He is currently supporting Highwire’s hiring partners utilizing the Highwire suite of software solutions … Read More


Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000

Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000
by Bernard Murphy on 05-29-2025 at 6:00 am

Anirudh Keynote at CadenceLIVE 2025 Reveals Millennium M2000

Another content-rich kickoff covering a lot of bases under three main themes: the new Millennium AI supercomputer release, a moonshot towards full autonomy in chip design exploiting agentic AI, and a growing emphasis on digital twins. Cadence President and CEO Anirudh Devgan touched on what is new today, and also market directions… Read More


Semiconductor Market Uncertainty

Semiconductor Market Uncertainty
by Bill Jewell on 05-28-2025 at 2:00 pm

2025 Semiconductor Market Forecast

WSTS reported 1st quarter 2025 semiconductor market revenues of $167.7 billion, up 18.8% from a year earlier and down 2.8% from the prior quarter. The first quarter of 2025 was weak for most major semiconductor companies. Ten of the sixteen companies in the table below had declines in revenue versus 4Q 2024, ranging from -0.1% from… Read More


Optimizing an IR for Hardware Design. Innovation in Verification

Optimizing an IR for Hardware Design. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 05-28-2025 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

Intermediate representations (IRs) between high level languages (C++, AI, etc.) and machine language are both commonplace (witness LLVM) and a continuing active area of research. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford,… Read More


Andes Technology: Powering the Full Spectrum – from Embedded Control to AI and Beyond

Andes Technology: Powering the Full Spectrum – from Embedded Control to AI and Beyond
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-27-2025 at 6:00 am

Overview of Andes Product Categories

As the computing industry seeks more flexible, scalable, and open hardware architectures, RISC-V has emerged as a compelling alternative to proprietary instruction set architectures. At the forefront of this revolution stands Andes Technology, offering a comprehensive lineup of RISC-V processor solutions that go far beyond… Read More


Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs

Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs
by Jonah McLeod on 05-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Voice as a Feature

When Apple introduced Siri in 2011, it was the first serious attempt to make voice interaction a mainstream user interface. Embedded into the iPhone 4S, Siri brought voice into consumers’ lives not as a standalone product, but as a built-in feature—a hands-free way to interact with an existing device. Siri set the expectation… Read More


From All-in-One IP to Cervell™: How Semidynamics Reimagined AI Compute with RISC-V

From All-in-One IP to Cervell™: How Semidynamics Reimagined AI Compute with RISC-V
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-26-2025 at 6:00 am

Started with a look at CPU

In an era where artificial intelligence workloads are growing in scale, complexity, and diversity, chipmakers are facing increasing pressure to deliver solutions that are not only fast, but also flexible and programmable. Semidynamics recently announced Cervell™, a fully programmable Neural Processing Unit (NPU) designedRead More