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CEO Interview with Dr. Michael Förtsch of Q.ANT

CEO Interview with Dr. Michael Förtsch of Q.ANT
by Daniel Nenni on 04-22-2025 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, is a physicist and innovator driving advancements in photonic computing and sensing technologies. With a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, he leads Q.ANT’s development of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) technology, delivering groundbreaking energy efficiency … Read More


Verifying Leakage Across Power Domains

Verifying Leakage Across Power Domains
by Daniel Payne on 04-21-2025 at 10:00 am

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IC designs need to operate reliably under varying conditions and avoid inefficiencies like leakage across power domains. But how do you verify that connections between IP blocks has been done properly? This is where reliability verification, Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) tools and dynamic simulations all come into play particularly… Read More


How Cadence is Building the Physical Infrastructure of the AI Era

How Cadence is Building the Physical Infrastructure of the AI Era
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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At the 2025 NVIDIA GTC Conference, CEO Jensen Huang delivered a sweeping keynote that painted the future of computing in bold strokes: a world powered by AI factories, built on accelerated computing, and driven by agentic, embodied AI capable of interacting with the physical world. He introduced the concept of Physical AI—intelligence… Read More


Podcast EP284: Current Capabilities and Future Focus at Intel Foundry Services with Kevin O’Buckley

Podcast EP284: Current Capabilities and Future Focus at Intel Foundry Services with Kevin O’Buckley
by Daniel Nenni on 04-18-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Kevin O’Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for driving continued growth for Intel Foundry and its differentiated systems foundry offerings, which go beyond traditional wafer fabrication to include packaging, chiplet… Read More


Andes RISC-V CON in Silicon Valley Overview

Andes RISC-V CON in Silicon Valley Overview
by Daniel Nenni on 04-18-2025 at 6:00 am

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RISC-V conferences have been at full capacity and I expect this one will be well attended as well. Andes is the biggest name in RSIC-V. The most notable thing about RISC-V conferences is the content. Not only is the content deep, it is international from the top companies in the industry. It is hard to find a design win these days without… Read More


Achieving Seamless 1.6 Tbps Interoperability for High BW HPC AI/ML SoCs: A Technical Webinar with Samtec and Synopsys

Achieving Seamless 1.6 Tbps Interoperability for High BW HPC AI/ML SoCs: A Technical Webinar with Samtec and Synopsys
by Daniel Nenni on 04-17-2025 at 10:00 am

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HPC Bandwidth Explosion and 1.6T Ecosystem Interop Need

The exponential growth in data bandwidth requirements driven by HPC systems, AI, and ML applications has set the stage for an ever-increasing need for 1.6Tbps Ethernet. As data centers strive to manage vast data transfers with maximum efficiency, the urgency for interoperability… Read More


Predictive Load Handling: Solving a Quiet Bottleneck in Modern DSPs

Predictive Load Handling: Solving a Quiet Bottleneck in Modern DSPs
by Jonah McLeod on 04-17-2025 at 6:00 am

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When people talk about bottlenecks in digital signal processors (DSPs), they usually focus on compute throughput: how many MACs per second, how wide the vector unit is, how fast the clock runs. But ask any embedded AI engineer working on always-on voice, radar, or low-power vision—and they’ll tell you the truth: memory stalls … Read More


Executive Interview with Leo Linehan, President, Electronic Materials, Materion Corporation

Executive Interview with Leo Linehan, President, Electronic Materials, Materion Corporation
by Daniel Nenni on 04-16-2025 at 10:00 am

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Leo Linehan leads Materion’s Electronic Materials business segment, an important supplier to the global semiconductor market and an industry leader in the production of advanced chemicals, microelectronic packaging, precious and non-precious metals, and deposition, reclamation and refining services.

Prior to joining… Read More


A Perspective on AI Opportunities in Software Engineering

A Perspective on AI Opportunities in Software Engineering
by Bernard Murphy on 04-16-2025 at 6:00 am

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Whatever software engineering teams are considering around leveraging AI in their development cycles should be of interest to us in hardware engineering. Not in every respect perhaps but there should be significant commonalities. I found a recent paper on the Future of AI-Driven Software Engineering from the University of … Read More


CEO Interview with Ronald Glibbery of Peraso

CEO Interview with Ronald Glibbery of Peraso
by Daniel Nenni on 04-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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Mr. Glibbery leads all functional areas of Peraso Inc. and has served as chief executive officer since December 2021. He co-founded Peraso Technologies Inc. in 2009 and previously served as its chief executive officer. Prior to co-founding Peraso Technologies, Mr. Glibbery was President of Intellon, a pioneer and leader in … Read More