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CAST Webinar About Supercharging Your Systems with Lossless Data Compression IPs

CAST Webinar About Supercharging Your Systems with Lossless Data Compression IPs
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-31-2025 at 10:00 am

CAST Webinar About Supercharging Your Systems with Lossless Data Compression IPs

Much of advanced technology is data-driven. From the cloud and AI accelerators to automotive processing and edge computing, data storage and transmission efficiency are of critical importance. It turns out that lossless data compression is a key ingredient to deliver these requirements.

While there are both software and hardware… Read More


cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities

cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-31-2025 at 6:00 am

cHBM Panelists at Synopsys Executive Forum

AI’s exponential growth is transforming semiconductor design—and memory is now as critical as compute. Multi-die architecture has emerged as the new frontier, and custom High Bandwidth Memory (cHBM) is fast becoming a cornerstone in this evolution. In a panel session at the Synopsys Executive Forum, leaders from AWS, Marvell,… Read More


Podcast EP300: Next Generation Metalization Innovations with Lam’s Kaihan Ashtiani

Podcast EP300: Next Generation Metalization Innovations with Lam’s Kaihan Ashtiani
by Daniel Nenni on 07-30-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Kaihan Ashtiani, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of atomic layer deposition and chemical vapor deposition metals in Lam’s Deposition Business Unit. Kaihan has more than 30 years of experience in technical and management roles, working on a variety of semiconductor tools and processes.

Dan explores… Read More


Prompt Engineering for Security: Innovation in Verification

Prompt Engineering for Security: Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 07-30-2025 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

We have a shortage of reference designs to test detection of security vulnerabilities. An LLM-based method demonstrates how to fix that problem with structured prompt engineering. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford,… Read More


Calibre Vision AI at #62DAC

Calibre Vision AI at #62DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-29-2025 at 10:00 am

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Calibre is a well-known EDA tool from Siemens that is used for physical verification, but I didn’t really know how AI technology was being used, so I attended a Tuesday session at #62DAC to get up to speed. Priyank Jain, Calibre Product Management presented slides and finished up with a Q&A session.

In the semiconductor world… Read More


Musk’s new job as Samsung Fab Manager – Can he disrupt chip making? Intel outside

Musk’s new job as Samsung Fab Manager – Can he disrupt chip making? Intel outside
by Robert Maire on 07-29-2025 at 6:00 am

Elon Musk Samsung Tesla

– Musk chip lifeline to Samsung comes with interesting strings attached
– Musk chose Samsung over Intel-What does that say about Intel?
– Musk will hold sway over Samsung much as Apple/NVDA over TSMC
– Will Musk do a “DOGE” on chip tool makers? How much influence?

Tesla/Samsung $16.5B deal
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Enabling the Ecosystem for True Heterogeneous 3D IC Designs

Enabling the Ecosystem for True Heterogeneous 3D IC Designs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-28-2025 at 10:00 am

The Shift to System Technology Co Optimization

The demand for higher performance, greater configurability, and more cost-effective solutions is pushing the industry toward heterogeneous integration and 3D integrated circuits (3D ICs). These solutions are no longer reserved for niche applications—they are rapidly becoming essential to mainstream semiconductor design.… Read More


Why I Think Intel 3.0 Will Succeed

Why I Think Intel 3.0 Will Succeed
by Daniel Nenni on 07-28-2025 at 6:00 am

Intel 3.0 Logo SemiWiki

Probably one of the most anticipated semiconductor investor calls was held last week and it did not disappoint. It was Lip-Bu Tan’s first full quarter since he took over as CEO. In the resulting discussions on the SemiWiki Forum I am viewed as overly optimistic of Intel’s recent pivot. That is true, I am optimistic, but my observations… Read More


CEO Interview with Jutta Meier of IQE

CEO Interview with Jutta Meier of IQE
by Daniel Nenni on 07-25-2025 at 10:00 am

Jutta Meier Headshot Color Courtesy IQE

Jutta Meier is an experienced executive who has held senior positions at global semiconductor companies for over 25 years. She joined IQE in January 2024 as CFO, and was announced as IQE’s CEO in May of 2025. She joined IQE after serving at Intel Corporation as a Senior Finance Director at Intel Foundry Services, supporting Intel’s… Read More


Podcast EP299: The Current and Future Capabilities of Static Verification at Synopsys with Rimpy Chugh

Podcast EP299: The Current and Future Capabilities of Static Verification at Synopsys with Rimpy Chugh
by Daniel Nenni on 07-25-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Rimpy Chugh, a Principal Product Manager at Synopsys with 14 years of varied experience in EDA and functional verification. Prior to joining Synopsys, Rimpy held field applications and verification engineering positions at Mentor Graphics, Cadence and HCL Technologies.

Dan explores the expanding role of static… Read More