Howard Pakosh is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Mr. Pakosh is also Founder & CEO of the TekStart Group, a Toronto-based boutique incubator focusing on Fractional-C business development support, as well as developing, promoting and licensing technology into markets such as blockchain, Internet-of-Things… Read More
Arteris Highlights a Path to Scalable Multi-Die Systems at the Chiplet SummitAt the recent Chiplet Summit, presentations, discussions and…Read More
Captain America: Can Elon Musk Save America's Chip Manufacturing Industry?Intel has posted three consecutive years of falling…Read More
WEBINAR: Reclaiming Clock Margin at 3nm and BelowAt 3nm and below, clock networks have quietly…Read More
WEBINAR: HBM4E Advances Bandwidth Performance for AI TrainingThe rapid proliferation of LLMs and other AI…Read More
Siemens Wins Best in Show Award at Chiplet Summit and Targets Broad 3D IC Design EnablementThe recent Chiplet Summit in Santa Clara was…Read MoreSkyWater Technology Update 2025
SkyWater Technology, a U.S. based pure-play semiconductor foundry, has made significant strides in 2025 reinforcing its position as a leader in domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, SkyWater specializes in advanced innovation engineering and high volume manufacturing of differentiated… Read More
TSMC’s Push for Energy-Efficient AI: Innovations in Logic and Packaging
In his keynote at the TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum Dr. LC Lu, TSMC Senior Fellow and Vice President, Research & Development / Design & Technology Platform, highlighted the exponential rise in power demand driven by AI proliferation. AI is embedding itself everywhere, from hyperscale data centers to edge devices, fueling… Read More
Semiconductor Equipment Spending Healthy
Global spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $33.07 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2025, according to SEMI and SEAJ. 2Q 2025 spending was up 23% from 2Q 2024. China had the largest spending at $11.36 billion, 34% of the total. However, China spending in 2Q 2025 was down 7% from 2Q 2024. Taiwan had the second largest… Read More
Yuning Liang’s Painstaking Push to Make the RISC-V PC a Reality
At Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 11, 2025, Yuning Liang, DeepComputing Founder and CEO walked onto the stage with a mischievous smile and a challenge. “What’s the hardest product to make?” he asked rhetorically. “A laptop. It’s bloody hard… but we did it. You can swap the motherboard, you can upgrade, you can’t… Read More
Arm Lumex Pushes Further into Standalone GenAI on Mobile
When I first heard about GenAI on mobile platforms – from Arm, Qualcomm and others – I confess I was skeptical. Surely there wouldn’t be enough capacity or performance to deliver more than a proof of concept? But Arm, and I’m sure others, have been working hard to demonstrate this is more than a party trick. It doesn’t hurt that foundation… Read More
Soitec’s “Engineering the Future” Event at Semicon West 2025
As part of the broader Semicon West ecosystem in Phoenix, Arizona, Soitec, a global leader in engineered substrates for semiconductors, hosts an exclusive, invitation-style event titled Engineering the Future: Soitec Substrates Powering Technology Megatrends on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 2:30 PM to 6:00 PM MST.
Held… Read More
The Impact of AI on Semiconductor Startups
At the AI Infra Summit 2025 was a panel conversation that captured the semiconductor industry’s anxieties and hopes. The session, titled “The Impact of AI on Semiconductor Startups,” examined how artificial intelligence is transforming not just what chips can do, but how we design them.
The backdrop is stark. Developing a leading-edge… Read More
Yes Intel Should Go Private
Lip-Bu Tan started as Intel CEO on March 18th of this year and some very impressive changes have already taken place. Intel started the year with more than 100,000 employees and will finish the year with around 75,000. Reporting structures have been flattened and the Intel culture is being transformed back into an innovation driven… Read More
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Unleashes Best-in-Class Performance, AI Experiences, and Power Efficiency for the Next Generation of Mobile Devices
In a bold move to dominate the premium mobile chipset market, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9500 on September 22, 2025, from Shenzhen, China. This flagship SoC promises to elevate 5G smartphones with unparalleled performance, on-device AI capabilities, and energy efficiency, positioning MediaTek as the undisputed leader… Read More


Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center