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Albert Liu founded Kneron in 2015 with a mission to bring on-device Edge AI and machine learning to mass-market devices and usher in the age of AI everywhere. His vision for Kneron is to realize the Edge AI Net, democratizing AI by moving inferencing away from the centralized cloud “brain” and onto devices everywhere.
Liu previously… Read More
ChipNexus Brings Agentic AI into Established Analog Design Flows
ChipNexus has introduced its NEX Analog Agent, bringing conversational automation to analog engineering workflows built around Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre simulation and Siemens Calibre physical verification. Available now, the software operates with customers’ installed tools, licenses and process design kits, giving… Read More
CEO Interview with Moshiel Biton of Addionics
Dr. Moshiel Biton is the CEO and Founder of Addionics, a pioneer in battery innovation. Under his leadership, the company has raised over $85 million, built partnerships with global industry leaders, and established the world’s first manufacturing facility for its 3D Current Collectors. With a Ph.D. in materials science, Moshiel… Read More
CEO Interview with Brett Walker of Electroninks
S. Brett Walker, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and CEO of Electroninks and has extensive Materials Science experience. Dr. Walker built Electroninks, Inc. to over $1M in revenue after 1 year in business. He has also successfully introduced Circuit Scribe, a consumer electronic prototyping product via wildly successful kick starter… Read More
Delivering Silicon Systems Through AI Disruption, Part 2: The Conductor
Conductor: the person who keeps every section of the orchestra in time without playing an instrument. In this article, it’s your operating model.
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CEO Interview with Tallat M. Shafaat of Vectara
Tallat M. Shafaat is CEO and co-founder of Vectara, an enterprise AI company that helps organizations build AI applications capable of retrieving information and generating reliable, grounded responses. Prior to founding Vectara, he worked at Google, contributing to its Search and Ads infrastructure, including the Knowledge… Read More
WEBINAR: Porting, Analysing & Optimising AI Models onto Edge GPUs
Modern AI models are opening up new possibilities at the edge. Turning those possibilities into responsive, efficient applications, however, requires more than choosing hardware with an impressive TOPS figure. Developers need to understand how models behave on their target devices, where performance is lost, and which optimisations… Read More
CEO Interview with Jun Yuan of Arcas-Tech
JUN YUAN BIO
◆Engineer for chip design, simulation, and P&R at AMD; Senior Engineer for chip verification (emulation, equivalence checking, formal verification) at Motorola since 1992.
◆Held R&D and technical management roles in formal verification EDA at Verplex, Jasper, and Cadence since 2003.
◆Founded Arcas-tech… Read More
CEO Interview with Pratap Ranade of Arena Physica
Pratap Ranade is CEO and Co-Founder of Arena Physica. Pratap first trained as a physicist at Stanford and Columbia before joining McKinsey as an Associate Partner advising tech and semiconductor companies. He then founded Kimono Labs, backed by Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Y-Combinator, which was acquired by Palantir. There,… Read More



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