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
Stochastic Pupil Fill in EUV Lithography
Pupil fill tradeoff again
EUV lithography continues to be plagued by its stochastic nature.
This stochastic nature is most clearly portrayed by the random fluctuation of the absorbed photon number at a given location. For example, consider an absorbed dose of 10 mJ/cm2 amounts to 6.8 photons of energy 92 eV absorbed in a square … Read More
Consumer memory slowing more than AI gaining
- Consumer memory slowing more than AI gaining causing weakness
- HBM sold out for 2025- HBM is most of Capex- NAND near zero
- Big miss on Q1 guide crushes stock on disappointment
- Positive for Nvidia- Negative for Broadcom/Qualcomm
Micron – AI is wonderful & growing out of bounds while consumer sucks
Micron reported in line… Read More
Intel Presents the Final Frontier of Transistor Architecture at IEDM
IEDM was buzzing with many presentations about the newest gate-all-around transistor. Both Intel and TSMC announced processes based on nanosheet technology. This significant process innovation allows the fabrication of silicon RibbonFET CMOS devices, which promise to open a new era of transistor scaling, keeping Moore’s… Read More
Podcast EP267: The Broad Impact Weebit Nano’s ReRAM is having with Coby Hanoch
Dan is joined by Coby Hanoch, Coby joined Weebit Nano as CEO in 2017. He has 15 years of experience in engineering and engineering management roles, and 28 years of experience in sales management and executive roles.
Coby describes the impact Weebit Nano’s ReRAM technology is having for: Embedded non-volatile memory, in… Read More
Alphawave Semi is in Play!