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Meet Quadric on the Road: Three Must-Attend AI Events

Meet Quadric on the Road: Three Must-Attend AI Events
by Daniel Nenni on 08-19-2026 at 6:00 am

Catch Quadric Hot Chips AI Infra

This late summer, Quadric is taking its vision for programmable, on-device AI to three of the industry’s most influential gatherings. From advanced processor design at HotChips to scalable deployment at the AI Infra Summit and physical AI at Embedded World North America, each stop offers a different opportunity to see how the… Read More


PDF Solutions’ Exensio Was Built for Semiconductor Analytics. The New Exensio Aurora Architecture Is Built for Semiconductor Intelligence.

PDF Solutions’ Exensio Was Built for Semiconductor Analytics. The New Exensio Aurora Architecture Is Built for Semiconductor Intelligence.
by Kalar Rajendiran on 08-18-2026 at 2:00 pm

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The semiconductor industry doesn’t have a shortage of data. It has a shortage of ways to turn that data into useful manufacturing insights quickly enough to matter.

That is the problem PDF Solutions’ Exensio solution has addressed for years. Built specifically for semiconductor manufacturing, Exensio brings … Read More


Beyond Moore: Co-Optimizing AI from Systems to Materials

Beyond Moore: Co-Optimizing AI from Systems to Materials
by Daniel Nenni on 08-18-2026 at 10:00 am

Beyond Moore AI from manufacturing to Systems

At the OCP APAC Summit in Taiwan, August 11–12, 2026, Applied Materials’ Subi Kengeri framed artificial intelligence as the semiconductor industry’s largest inflection point. AI demand is accelerating the industry toward one trillion dollars in annual revenue, but the keynote’s central message was more consequential than… Read More


Focusing on the AI Big Picture with Moores Lab AI at DAC 2026

Focusing on the AI Big Picture with Moores Lab AI at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-18-2026 at 6:00 am

Focusing on the AI Big Picture with Moores Lab AI at DAC 2026

DAC 2026 proved that agentic AI design flows are here to stay. The news was conveyed both by familiar companies who we’ve seen at DAC many times before as well as new entrants to the show and the industry. Many of the solutions that were presented focused on a specific part of the design flow. Others took a broader view of the problem and… Read More


Podcast EP361: An Overview of the AI Infra Summit with Ed Nelson

Podcast EP361: An Overview of the AI Infra Summit with Ed Nelson
by Daniel Nenni on 08-17-2026 at 2:00 pm

Daniel is joined by Ed Nelson, Strategy Director and Co-Founder of AI Infra Summit. He co-leads the production team and specializes in product strategy and management, keynote speaker acquisition and VIP network development. Ed started the summit in 2018 and has spent nearly ten years as part of the team building AI Infra Summit… Read More


Rise Design Automation at DAC 2026

Rise Design Automation at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 08-17-2026 at 10:00 am

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AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go from specification to a High Level Synthesis (HLS) model, to a RTL model. The reason for using a HLS model is to gain much more simulation… Read More


ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-17-2026 at 6:00 am

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

I believe this year’s DAC will be viewed as the time and place where EDA experienced a major shift. That is, the shift from the value of tools and methodology to the value of agentic design flows powered by highly trained agents. The design community will clearly need the tools and methodologies that have occupied DAC for years. But… Read More


Podcast EP360: IDA Ireland’s Role to Expand Ireland’s Footprint Across the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Anne-Marie Tierney

Podcast EP360: IDA Ireland’s Role to Expand Ireland’s Footprint Across the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Anne-Marie Tierney
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 2:00 pm

Daniel is joined by Anne-Marie Tierney, Divisional Manager at IDA Ireland. Anne-Marie has 24 years’ experience in the global investment environment with IDA Ireland, working across several key roles in Ireland and abroad, positioning Ireland for high impact investments, with a specific interest in semiconductors. Prior … Read More


A 0.42-Nanometer Breakthrough From TSMC Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon

A 0.42-Nanometer Breakthrough From TSMC Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 8:00 am

A 0.42 Nanometer Breakthrough Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon

Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and TSMC Corporate Research engineered a 0.42-nanometer aluminum-oxide interface that protects electron transport in monolayer MoS₂ transistors while enabling strong gate control.

Silicon transistors are approaching physical limits that make each new generation… Read More


ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution

ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 6:00 am

ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution

ASML’s dominance was not born from a single invention. It emerged from four decades of systems engineering, supplier orchestration, and repeated bets on lithographic transitions that competitors judged too expensive. Founded in 1984 as a Philips–ASM joint venture, the Dutch company first differentiated itself with modular… Read More