William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More





2025 Outlook with Sri Lakshmi Simhadri of MosChip
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am Sri Lakshmi Simhadri, and I head Semiconductor BU at MosChip® Technologies, responsible for Semiconductor Design Services. I have 30+ years of Semiconductor Industry experience. Held leadership and project management roles with multi-national companies like Cyient… Read More
Soitec: Materializing Future Innovations in Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry continues to evolve rapidly to meet the escalating demands for speed, power efficiency, and miniaturization. As traditional silicon-based technologies reach their physical and performance limits, engineered substrates and advanced material innovation have emerged as pivotal drivers of the… Read More
Weak Semiconductor Start to 2025
WSTS reported the global semiconductor market in 4th quarter 2024 was $170.9 billion, up 17% from a year earlier and up 3% from 3rd quarter 2024. The full year 2024 market was $628 billion, up 19.1% from 2023.
We at Semiconductor Intelligence give a virtual award for the most accurate semiconductor market forecast for the year. The… Read More
Webinar: RF design success hinges on enhanced models and accurate simulation
Traditional RF board design strategies based on circuit simulation worked at lower frequencies and relatively large spacing between components. Higher frequencies and densification dominate RF designs now, where corresponding wider bandwidths and tighter layouts with closely spaced components produce more complex 3D… Read More
2025 Outlook with Paul Wells of sureCore
Paul Wells, CEO at sureCore, an ultra-low power memory specialist, has been involved in the semiconductor industry for over 35 years. Previously, he has worked as Director of Engineering for Pace Networks where he led a multidisciplinary product development team creating a broadcast quality video and data mini-headend. Before… Read More
Arteris Raises Bar Again with AI-Based NoC Design
Modern semiconductor devices, a far cry from the chips we once knew, are now highly complex intelligent systems used in datacenters, communications infrastructure, in consumer electronics, automotive, home and office automation, almost everywhere. All such applications build around large subsystems, invariably compute,… Read More
2025 Outlook with Veerbhan Kheterpal of Quadric
Quadric Inc. is the leading licensor of general-purpose neural processor IP (GPNPU) that runs both machine learning inference workloads and classic DSP and control algorithms. Quadric’s unified hardware and software architecture is optimized for on-device ML inference. Veerbhan Kheterpal is the CEO and one of the co-founders… Read More
Samtec Advances Multi-Channel SerDes Technology with Broadcom at DesignCon
There were many announcements and significant demonstrations of new technology at the recent DesignCon. The show celebrated its 30th anniversary this year and it has grown quite a bit. As in past years Samtec had a commanding presence at the show. There will be more about that in a moment, but first I want to focus on a substantial … Read More
Outlook 2025 with David Hwang of Alchip
Dave Hwang joined Alchip in 2021 as General Manager of Alchip’s North America Business Unit. He also serves as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Prior to join Alchip, Dave served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Global Unichip and in a variety of management and technical roles at TSMC. He holds… Read More
Unlocking the cloud: A new era for post-tapeout flow for semiconductor manufacturing