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DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring

DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-17-2025 at 6:00 am

DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring

As AI models grow exponentially, the infrastructure supporting them is struggling under the pressure. At DAC, one company stood out with a solution that doesn’t just monitor chips, it empowers them to adapt in real time to these new workload requirements.

Unlike traditional telemetry or post-silicon debug tools, proteanTecs… Read More


U.S. Imports Shifting

U.S. Imports Shifting
by Bill Jewell on 07-16-2025 at 2:00 pm

US Smartphone Imports 2025 SemiWiki

Our Semiconductor Intelligence June Newsletter showed how U.S. imports of smartphones have been on a downward trend since January 2025, led by China. Other key electronic products have also experienced sharp drops in U.S. imports from China.F

U.S. smartphone imports in May 2025 were $3.03 billion, up slightly from April but … Read More


Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them But We’ve Already Lost Control!

Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them But We’ve Already Lost Control!
by Admin on 07-16-2025 at 10:00 am

Geoffrey Hinton Godfather of AI

Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” joins Steven Bartlett on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast to discuss his pioneering work in neural networks and his growing concerns about AI’s dangers. Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, explains how he advocated for brain-inspired… Read More


Sophisticated soundscapes usher in cache-coherent multicore DSP

Sophisticated soundscapes usher in cache-coherent multicore DSP
by Don Dingee on 07-16-2025 at 10:00 am

A Tensilica 2 to 8 core SMP DSP adds cache-coherence for high-end audio processing and other applications

Digital audio processing is evolving into an art form, particularly in high-end applications such as automotive, cinema, and home theater. Innovation is moving beyond spatial audio technologies to concepts such as environmental correction and spatial confinement. These sophisticated soundscapes are driving a sudden increase… Read More


A Quick Look at Agentic/Generative AI in Software Engineering

A Quick Look at Agentic/Generative AI in Software Engineering
by Bernard Murphy on 07-16-2025 at 6:00 am

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Agentic methods are hot right now since single LLM models seem limited to point tool applications. Each such application is impressive but still a single step in the more complex chain of reasoning tasks we want to automate, where agentic methods should shine. I have been hearing that software engineering (SWE) teams are advancing… Read More


Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs

Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs
by Admin on 07-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Mark Tawfik

Parasitic extraction is essential in integrated circuit (IC) design, as it identifies unintended resistances, capacitances, and inductances that can impact circuit performance. These parasitic elements arise from the layout and interconnects of the circuit and can affect signal integrity, power consumption,… Read More


Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem

Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-15-2025 at 6:00 am

Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem

As the new name reflects, chip and system design were a major focus at DAC. So was the role of AI to enable those activities. But getting an AI-enabled design flow to work effectively across chip, subsystem and system-level design presents many significant challenges. One important one is effectively managing the vast amount of… Read More


Double SoC prototyping performance with S2C’s VP1902-based S8-100

Double SoC prototyping performance with S2C’s VP1902-based S8-100
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2025 at 10:00 am

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As AI, HPC, and networking applications demand ever-higher compute and bandwidth, SoC complexity continues to grow. Traditional 50M ASIC equivalent gate FPGA prototyping systems have become less effective for full-chip verification at scale. Addressing this challenge, S2C introduced the Prodigy S8-100 Logic system, powered… Read More


Alphawave Semi and the AI Era: A Technology Leadership Overview

Alphawave Semi and the AI Era: A Technology Leadership Overview
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2025 at 8:00 am

AI Market Silicon Forecast 2025

The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the data center landscape, pushing the boundaries of compute, connectivity, and memory technologies. The exponential growth in AI workloads—training large language models (LLMs), deploying real-time inference, and scaling distributed applications—has … Read More


Silicon Valley, à la Française

Silicon Valley, à la Française
by Lauro Rizzatti on 07-14-2025 at 6:00 am

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Since the fall of the Roman Empire, France has played a defining role in shaping Western civilization. In the 9th century, Charlemagne—a Frank—united much of Europe under one rule, leaving behind a legacy so profound he is still remembered as the “Father of Europe.” While Italy ignited the Renaissance, it was 16th-century France… Read More