I’m Steve Kim, the CEO of Chips&Media. I’ve been immersed in the multimedia imaging industry for approximately two decades. Prior to joining Chips&Media, I spent over five years working within handset manufacturing companies. Following more than ten years here at Chips&Media in roles spanning Marketing, Sales,… Read More
Arteris at DAC 2026 Connecting Innovation for Silicon SuccessThe semiconductor industry has entered a new era…Read More
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Enabling AI to Understand Complex Runtime Behavior for Accurate, Automated Root Cause Analysis — DAC 2026Undo gives AI coding agents the runtime context…Read MoreyieldHUB Expands Its Impact with New Technology and a New Website
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NXP Expands Arteris NoC Deployment to Scale Edge AI Architectures
As edge AI systems become more centralized and compute-dense, on-chip data movement is increasingly the architectural bottleneck. NXP’s expanded deployment of Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) and cache-coherent interconnect IP highlights a broader industry trend: interconnect architecture is now a first-order design … Read More
Architecting Intelligence: The Rise of RISC-V CPUs in Agentic AI Infrastructure
SiFive’s newly announced $400 million Series G financing represents a significant technical inflection point for high-performance RISC-V CPU development targeted at agentic AI data center workloads. The funding, which values the company at $3.65 billion, is specifically intended to accelerate next-generation CPU IP, … Read More
Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
Why do professional executives running major corporations frame a major moment in their company’s history with a tweet? Jerry Sanders spent his career yelling “real men have fabs!” Now Intel has fabs–and apparently tweets about … Read More
From SoC to System-in-Package: Transforming Automotive Compute with Multi-Die Integration
Modern automotive electronics are undergoing a rapid transformation driven by increasing compute demands, functional safety requirements, and the shift toward scalable semiconductor architectures. One of the most significant technological developments enabling this transformation is the adoption of multi-die system… Read More
Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs
Agentic AI workloads are reshaping the compute requirements of modern data center infrastructure by shifting performance bottlenecks from GPU-centric inference to CPU-heavy orchestration and workflow management. Traditional AI inference pipelines relied primarily on GPUs performing a single forward pass, where input… Read More
Accellera Updates at DVCon 2026
Lu Dai (chair of Accellera) and I had our regular chat at DVCon U.S. 2026. Accellera also hosted a reception in the exhibits hall, with free snacks and drinks, very well attended. We talked about what’s new in Accellera, with a particular emphasis on the recently released standard for CDC and RDC tool interoperability, also Lu’s … Read More
When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives
Marc Evans, Director of Business Development & Marketing, Andes Technology USA
I work at a RISC-V IP company, and I genuinely root for Arm — probably more than most people in my position would admit. Not because I’m confused about who competes with whom, but because Arm’s best move for their shareholders is also… Read More
An Upper Bound on Effective Quantum Computation?
You may think that quantum theory is fully understood but that view is not quite right. There remain open questions around the uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality, measurement collapse, and harmonizing quantum mechanics and gravitation. These concerns may seem very abstract and irrelevant to everyday applications… Read More


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