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SemiWiki Outlook 2025 with yieldHUB Founder & CEO John O’Donnell

SemiWiki Outlook 2025 with yieldHUB Founder & CEO John O’Donnell
by Daniel Nenni on 03-03-2025 at 10:00 am

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What was the most exciting high point of 2024 for your company?

One of the most exciting milestones in 2024 was the further expansion of our data science team, which allowed us to take a bold step toward fully integrating AI into our solutions. This not only is enhancing our offerings but also helped us grow within our existing customer… Read More


Powering the Future: How Engineered Substrates and Material Innovation Drive the Semiconductor Revolution

Powering the Future: How Engineered Substrates and Material Innovation Drive the Semiconductor Revolution
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-03-2025 at 6:00 am

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Engineered substrate technology is driving an evolution within the semiconductor industry. As Moore’s Law reaches its limits, the focus is shifting from traditional planar wafer scaling to innovative material engineering and 3D integration. Companies like Soitec, Intel and Samsung are pioneering this transition, unlocking… Read More


Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano

Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano
by Daniel Nenni on 02-28-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Letizia Giuliano, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management at Alphawave Semi. She specializes in architecting cutting-edge solutions for high-speed connectivity and chiplet design architecture. Prior to her role at Alphawave Semi, Letizia held the position of Product Line Manager at Intel, where… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Andreas Kuehlmann of Cycuity

CEO Interview: Dr. Andreas Kuehlmann of Cycuity
by Daniel Nenni on 02-28-2025 at 8:00 am

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Dr. Andreas Kuehlmann, Executive Chairman and CEO at Cycuity, has spent his career across the fields of semiconductor design, software development, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining Cycuity, he helped build a market-leading software security business as head of engineering at Coverity and, after its acquisition by Synopsys,… Read More


The Double-Edged Sword of AI Processors: Batch Sizes, Token Rates, and the Hardware Hurdles in Large Language Model Processing

The Double-Edged Sword of AI Processors: Batch Sizes, Token Rates, and the Hardware Hurdles in Large Language Model Processing
by Lauro Rizzatti on 02-27-2025 at 10:00 am

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Unlike traditional software programming, AI software modeling represents a transformative paradigm shift, reshaping methodologies, redefining execution processes, and driving significant advancements in AI processors requirements.

Software Programming versus AI Modeling: A Fundamental Paradigm Shift

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Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?

Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?

The semiconductor ecosystem is changing. Monolithic design is becoming multi-die design. Processors no longer inform software development options. It’s now the other way around with complex AI software informing the design of purpose-built hardware. And all that special-purpose hardware needs drivers to make it come to … Read More


Bug Hunting in Multi Core Processors. Innovation in Verification

Bug Hunting in Multi Core Processors. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 02-26-2025 at 6:00 am

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What’s new in debugging multi-/many-core systems? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.

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2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology

2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2025 at 10:00 am

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am Rui Tang, co-founder and VP of MSquare Technology. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, I bring over 23 years of experience in the IC industry. Prior to MSquare,… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More


Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node

Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node
by Fred Chen on 02-23-2025 at 10:00 am

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Whether EUV or DUV doesn’t matter at 20 nm pitch
The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, 2022 Edition, indicates that the “2nm” node due in 2025 (this year) has a minimum (metal) half-pitch of 10 nm [1]. This is, in fact, less than the resolution of a current state-of-the-art EUV system, with a numerical aperture… Read More