And just like that, the AI PC arrived. It will be hard to miss high-profile advertising campaigns like the one just launched by Microsoft touting them. Gartner said this September that AI PCs will be 43% of all PC shipments in 2025 (with 114M units projected) and that by 2026, AI PCs will be the only choice for business laptop users. … Read More





Happy New Year from SemiWiki
As SemiWiki celebrates our 14th anniversary I wanted to wish you all a happy New Year! Working in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years has been rewarding beyond belief. Working in the trenches and traveling the world has been an education in itself, more so than any other career that I could imagine. SemiWiki has broadened… Read More
CEO Interview: Subi Krishnamurthy of PIMIC
Subi Krishnamurthy is the Founder and CEO of PIMIC, an AI semiconductor company pioneering processing-in-memory (PiM) technology for ultra-low-power AI solutions. With over 30 years of experience in silicon design and product development, Subi has led the mass production of 12+ silicon projects and holds 30+ patents. He began… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr Josep Montanyà of Nanusens
Dr. Josep Montanyà Chief Executive Officer – UK/Spain Co-founder leading the company, with +18 years of experience in MEMS, patents and the semiconductor industry. Founded Baolab Microsystems prior to Nanusens.
Tell us a little bit about your company?
We have a patented technology that allows us to build chips with nano-mechanisms… Read More
Accelerating Simulation. Innovation in Verification
Following a similar topic we covered early last year, here we look at updated research to accelerating RTL simulation through domain-specific hardware. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our … Read More
Podcast EP268: A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story
Dan is joined Dr. Douglas Sparks, CEO of M2N Technologies LLC, a consulting firm specializing in semiconductors, MEMS and sensors, including their supply chains. He has just published a new book, A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story. Doug was the CTO of Hanking Electronics which built a high-volume… Read More
The Intel Common Platform Foundry Alliance
When I do a root cause analysis of Intel’s problem it is very simple. If Intel wants to continue to be a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturer, they need to fill their fabs, all of their fabs. Clearly several things need to happen in order to do that but the one that most interests me is on the foundry side.
I think we can all agree that… Read More
CEO Interview: Marc Engel of Agileo Automation
Marc Engel has served as the CEO of Agileo Automation for the past 15 years. Agileo specializes in software solutions for controlling semiconductor production equipment and connecting tools to MES systems using SECS/GEM and OPC-UA standards. Marc started his extensive 25-year engineering career in software development on… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Dennis Michaelis of GEMESYS
Dr. Dennis Michaelis is the founder and CEO of the AI chip start-up. With a Ph.D. in Bio-Inspired Computing at the Purdue University in Indiana and a background in electrical engineering, he brings a unique blend of technical expertise and social commitment to the company. His previous role as Regional Director for Anonymous for… Read More
What would you do if you were the CEO of Intel?
One of the most enduring threads in the SemiWiki forum is What would you do if you are the Intel CEO? There are currently 128 responses and more than 45,000 views. It was originally posted March 13th, 2015, after Brain Krzanich was given the CEO position. A different time for sure but an interesting read and the responses keep on coming.… Read More
Unlocking the cloud: A new era for post-tapeout flow for semiconductor manufacturing