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Podcast EP361: An Overview of the AI Infra Summit with Ed Nelson

Podcast EP361: An Overview of the AI Infra Summit with Ed Nelson
by Daniel Nenni on 08-17-2026 at 2:00 pm
Categories: AI, Events, Silicon Catalyst

Daniel is joined by Ed Nelson, Strategy Director and Co-Founder of AI Infra Summit. He co-leads the production team and specializes in product strategy and management, keynote speaker acquisition and VIP network development. Ed started the summit in 2018 and has spent nearly ten years as part of the team building AI Infra Summit… Read More

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Rise Design Automation at DAC 2026

Rise Design Automation at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 08-17-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Rise Design Automation

rise da dac2026

AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go from specification to a High Level Synthesis (HLS) model, to a RTL model. The reason for using a HLS model is to gain much more simulation… Read More

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ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-17-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, ChipAgents AI, EDA, Events

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

I believe this year’s DAC will be viewed as the time and place where EDA experienced a major shift. That is, the shift from the value of tools and methodology to the value of agentic design flows powered by highly trained agents. The design community will clearly need the tools and methodologies that have occupied DAC for years. But… Read More

Podcast EP360: IDA Ireland’s Role to Expand Ireland’s Footprint Across the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Anne-Marie Tierney

Podcast EP360: IDA Ireland’s Role to Expand Ireland’s Footprint Across the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Anne-Marie Tierney
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 2:00 pm
Categories: Semiconductor

Daniel is joined by Anne-Marie Tierney, Divisional Manager at IDA Ireland. Anne-Marie has 24 years’ experience in the global investment environment with IDA Ireland, working across several key roles in Ireland and abroad, positioning Ireland for high impact investments, with a specific interest in semiconductors. Prior … Read More

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A 0.42-Nanometer Breakthrough From TSMC Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon

A 0.42-Nanometer Breakthrough From TSMC Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: Semiconductor, TSMC

A 0.42 Nanometer Breakthrough Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon

Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and TSMC Corporate Research engineered a 0.42-nanometer aluminum-oxide interface that protects electron transport in monolayer MoS₂ transistors while enabling strong gate control.

Silicon transistors are approaching physical limits that make each new generation… Read More

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ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution

ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: Lithography
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ASML’s Path to Lithography Dominance—and the Coming Maskless Revolution

ASML’s dominance was not born from a single invention. It emerged from four decades of systems engineering, supplier orchestration, and repeated bets on lithographic transitions that competitors judged too expensive. Founded in 1984 as a Philips–ASM joint venture, the Dutch company first differentiated itself with modular… Read More

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Bronco AI Webinar: Full-Chip SoC Debug in 15 Minutes

Bronco AI Webinar: Full-Chip SoC Debug in 15 Minutes
by Daniel Nenni on 08-13-2026 at 2:00 pm
Categories: Bronco AI, EDA, Events

Bronco AI Webinar SemiWiki

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have always been a matter of engineer-hours and how well knowledge diffuses through the organization.

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Tuple Technologies at DAC 2026

Tuple Technologies at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 08-13-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: Events, Semiconductor Services, Tuple Technologies

Team TupleTech DAC26

At #DAC2026 I met with Vamshi Kothur at Tuple Technologies to see how their cloud infrastructure products help IC design teams get their chip designs to market more quickly without the overhead of big IT and CAD teams. Tuple was founded in 2017 and has grown to about 45 people, headquartered in New Jersey. The challenge of using complex… Read More

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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
Categories: AI, CEO Interviews, RISC-V

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

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Using Claude AI for Chip Design

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

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