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CEO Interview with Jerry Chen of Upbeat Technology

CEO Interview with Jerry Chen of Upbeat Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 08-13-2026 at 10:00 am

Jerry Chen CEO Founder Upbeat Technology

Jerry Chen, CEO and Founder of Upbeat Technology, received his Master of Science in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin. Started working as an IC design engineer in Silicon Valley at Intel, Lucent, Apple, and Procket Network since 1995. Later transitioned into Technical Marketing roles, serving as Director of Marketing… Read More


Using Claude AI for Chip Design

Using Claude AI for Chip Design
by Daniel Nenni on 08-13-2026 at 6:00 am

Using Claude AI for Chip Design

After speaking with dozens of semiconductor professionals at the Design Automation Conference in Long Beach about AI in the chip-design workflow, Claude emerged as the common denominator in every conversation. We’re still at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using AI in the design flow. If management is pushing your team … Read More


Micron Advanced Memory Portfolio Positioned for AI Infrastructure Expansion

Micron Advanced Memory Portfolio Positioned for AI Infrastructure Expansion
by Daniel Nenni on 08-12-2026 at 2:00 pm

Micron Advanced Memory Portfolio Positioned for AI Infrastructure Expansion

Micron Technology has emerged as a critical supplier in the AI compute ecosystem, leveraging its leadership in advanced DRAM, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and NAND flash technologies to address rapidly growing demand from hyperscale data centers and AI accelerator platforms. The company’s strategic focus on leading-edge… Read More


CEO Interview with Leon Lauritsen of Aras

CEO Interview with Leon Lauritsen of Aras
by Daniel Nenni on 08-12-2026 at 2:00 pm

Leon Lauritsen

Leon Lauritsen is the CEO of Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management and engineering AI. He joined the company in 2022 through the acquisition of Minerva PLM, where he had been for over 20 years. While at Minerva, Leon led sales and marketing globally and expanded its geographic coverage… Read More


Comparing Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros

Comparing Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros
by Daniel Nenni on 08-12-2026 at 10:00 am

Comparing Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros SemiWiki

Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros are advanced semiconductor-packaging technologies designed to combine multiple silicon dies, or chiplets, within one processor package. Both support heterogeneous integration: manufacturers can build different functions using the process technology best suited to each one, then connect … Read More


Boost Front-End SoC Design With Defacto’s AI-Powered Tool

Boost Front-End SoC Design With Defacto’s AI-Powered Tool
by Admin on 08-12-2026 at 6:00 am

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Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined by product manager Valentin Boyer, walked through how the company is bringing AI directly into… Read More


Temperature Does Not Only Age Hardware — It Moves the System

Temperature Does Not Only Age Hardware — It Moves the System
by Moh Kolb on 08-11-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Temperature is often treated as a reliability clock.

Increase the temperature, accelerate the failure mechanism, and estimate the equivalent field life.

That approach can be useful—but only when the dominant failure mechanism is known, its thermal activation behavior is understood, and the same mechanism remains active … Read More


Siemens and NVIDIA tout Agentic AI

Siemens and NVIDIA tout Agentic AI
by Daniel Payne on 08-11-2026 at 10:00 am

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Siemens has EDA tools and flows, NVIDIA has AI infrastructure, so what happens when these two companies collaborate? I’m at DAC 2026 and all the buzz this year is Agentic AI, so an came out on Sunday evening about how semiconductor and PCB design flows are being improved by this teamwork. Amit Gupta from Siemens and Timothy Costa from… Read More


Agentrys Launches Agentic Design Automation at DAC 2026

Agentrys Launches Agentic Design Automation at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-11-2026 at 6:00 am

Agentrys Launches Agentic Design Automation at DAC 2026

There were many new agentic design flows introduced at DAC this year. Some from mainstream providers and others from new startups. The increased level of activity around this technology was good to see. Most of the approaches presented at the conference were targeting specific parts of the flow. Verification and debug were popular… Read More


NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA

NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 08-10-2026 at 2:00 pm

NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA

NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers connect reasoning… Read More