At CES in Las Vegas, Siemens and NVIDIA announced a major expansion of their long-standing collaboration, aiming to create what they term the “Industrial AI Operating System.” This ambitious initiative seeks to embed artificial intelligence deeply across the entire industrial value chain—from design and engineering… Read More
Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions CHERI AllianceThe CHERI Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated…Read More
Operationalizing Secure Semiconductor Collaboration: Safely, Globally, and at ScaleSemiconductor manufacturing is among the most complex industrial…Read More
Keynote: On-Package Chiplet Innovations with UCIeIn the rapidly evolving landscape of semiconductor technology,…Read More
Global 2nm Supply Crunch: TSMC Leads as Intel 18A, Samsung, and Rapidus Race to CompeteThe semiconductor industry is in the midst of…Read MoreCES 2026 and all things Cycling
I just completed the annual Rapha 500 Challenge on Strava by cycling 869 km in eight days, so it’s time to give you my annual recap of CES 2026 and all things cycling. Similar to previous years the big push again in 2026 are e-bikes and even e-motos. The AI acronym was everywhere too in product names and announcements as physical… Read More
Podcast EP326: How PhotonDelta is Advancing the Use of Photonic Chip Technology with Jorn Smeets
Daniel is joined by Jorn Smeets, Managing Director for North America at PhotonDelta, an industry accelerator for photonic chip technology. Based in Silicon Valley, his mission is to advance the photonic chip industry by fostering collaboration between European and North American entities.
Dan explores the focus of PhotonDelta… Read More
Webinar: Why AI-Assisted Security Verification For Chip Design is So Important
It is well-known that AI is everywhere, and the incredible power of this new technology is enabled by highly complex, purpose-built silicon. But there is a silent enemy of this substantial, world-changing progress. Something that has the power to steal a bright future from all of us. The hardware root of trust for those advanced… Read More
CEO Interview with Scott Bibaud of Atomera
Scott Bibaud has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2015. Mr. Bibaud has been active in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. He has successfully built a number of businesses in his career which grew to generate over $1 Billion in revenue at some of the world’s largest semiconductor… Read More
2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Sales Officer for Semidynamics and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process.
Semidynamics was founded in 2016 as a design service company with a focus on RISC-V. This was so successful that the CEO decided to pivot the company towards its own … Read More
Nvidia Overcoming the Challenges of Blending Hardware Verification Expertise with AI and ML
Hardware verification has always been one of the most demanding phases of system design, but today it faces an unprecedented crisis. As hardware systems grow exponentially in complexity verification resources, time, compute, and human expertise, scale far more slowly. This widening gap has resulted in endless regression … Read More
2026 Outlook with Howard Pakosh of Tekstart
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I founded TekStart Group in Ontario, Canada, in 1998 with a very clear objective: to help innovators turn breakthrough technology concepts into real, market-ready products. Over the past 25-plus years, we have worked across the full lifecycle of technology development, from… Read More
Automotive Digital Twins Out of The Box and Real Time with PAVE360
Digital twins are amazing technology, virtual representations mirroring a real physical system. Twin virtual models span software, electrical/electronic and mechanical subsystems, closing the loop with feedback from real physical counterparts. The virtual model calibrates against real sensing feedback gathered in … Read More
Acceleration of Complex RISC-V Processor Verification Using Test Generation Integrated with Hardware Emulation
The rapid evolution of RISC-V processors has introduced unprecedented verification challenges. Modern high-end RISC-V cores now incorporate complex features such as vector and hypervisor extensions, virtual memory systems, multi-level caches, advanced interrupt architectures, and multi-hart out-of-order execution.… Read More


Things From Intel 10K That Make You Go …. Hmmmm