– NIST to lose 100’s of mainly CHIPS Act people
– If no people are left to administer CHIPS Act it dies by default
– Following USAID play book to kill an unwanted program
– Using the “probationary” clause as excuse to fire recent CHIPS hires




Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand
Dan is joined by Sebastien Clamagirand, Global Senior Vice President of Automotive System Engineering and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors. Sebastien focuses on system solutions for vehicle architectures that support the shift to software-defined vehicles. Under his leadership, NXP delivers pre-integrated, scalable … Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI
William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More
2025 Outlook with Sri Lakshmi Simhadri of MosChip
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
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Soitec: Materializing Future Innovations in Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry continues to evolve rapidly to meet the escalating demands for speed, power efficiency, and miniaturization. As traditional silicon-based technologies reach their physical and performance limits, engineered substrates and advanced material innovation have emerged as pivotal drivers of the… Read More
Weak Semiconductor Start to 2025
WSTS reported the global semiconductor market in 4th quarter 2024 was $170.9 billion, up 17% from a year earlier and up 3% from 3rd quarter 2024. The full year 2024 market was $628 billion, up 19.1% from 2023.
We at Semiconductor Intelligence give a virtual award for the most accurate semiconductor market forecast for the year. The… Read More
Webinar: RF design success hinges on enhanced models and accurate simulation
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2025 Outlook with Paul Wells of sureCore
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
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
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
TSMC Describes Technology Innovation Beyond A14