As usual in January we start with a look back at the papers we reviewed last year. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.
TSMC Expands Use of NVIDIA AI Technologies Across Chip Production OperationsTSMC, the world’s largest contract semiconductor manufacturer, is…Read More
Convergence Evidence Maturity Hierarchy: From Raw Data to Convergence-Authoritative EvidenceThe semiconductor industry is generating more engineering data…Read More
An Update on IP Lifecycle Management (IPLM)IPLM is not always prominent, nevertheless it is…Read More
Learn How llmda Uses Agentic AI to Generate Hardware Docs & Keep Them ConsistentAccurate, complete, and consistent technical documentation is a…Read More
TSMC Pioneers a New Era in AI-Powered Trade Secret Management, Achieving Intelligent Innovation Launching a "Creativity Integration…Read MoreThe Chronicle of TSMC CoWoS
As semiconductor scaling slowed and system performance became increasingly constrained by data movement rather than raw compute, advanced packaging emerged as a decisive lever. Among these technologies, TSMC’s CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) represents a turning point in how high-performance systems are … Read More
2026 Outlook with Shelly Henry of MooresLabAI
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Shelly Henry, CEO and co-founder of MooresLabAI. After two decades of building chips for Xbox, HoloLens, and Azure, I reached a point where I knew the industry needed a reset. So I teamed up with fellow engineers, Shashank Chaurasia and Sirish Munipalli to create MooresLabAI—a… Read More
Synopsys’ Secure Storage Solution for OTP IP
For decades, One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory has been viewed as a foundational element of hardware security. Because OTP can be written only once and cannot be modified afterward, it has traditionally been trusted to store cryptographic keys, secure boot code, device identity, and configuration data. Permanence was often… Read More
Weebit Nano Reports on 2025 Targets
In early January 2026, Weebit Nano Ltd. (ASX: WBT) released a comprehensive report detailing its performance against the 2025 commercial and technical targets the company had set at its 2024 Annual General Meeting. The announcement highlighted significant progress in both business development and technology qualification,… Read More
The Butterfly in the Room: How an India Shock Breaks the AI Buildout
India rarely makes the front page of the Western technology press — and when it does, the story is growth. What is happening right now doesn’t fit that story. Since late February, the U.S.-Iran conflict has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which roughly half of India’s crude oil and 60% of its natural … Read More
2026 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Quadric, where I have spent the past four years helping scale the company’s market presence and customer engagement. Quadric is a pure-play IP licensing company that has been operating for more than seven years. We specialize in a truly unique,… Read More
Hierarchical Device Planning as an Enabler of System Technology Co-Optimization
AI, hyperscale data centers, and data-intensive workloads are driving unprecedented demands for performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. As the economic returns of traditional transistor scaling diminish, advanced IC packaging and heterogeneous integration have become the primary levers for system-level scaling.… Read More
SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion
In a strategic move that could reshape the future of AI data center design, SiFive, a leading developer of RISC-V processor IP and compute subsystems, has announced plans to integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its high-performance data center platforms. This collaboration bridges the open-architecture… Read More
2026 Outlook with Dave Hwang of Alchip
Dr. 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.


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