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Adding Expertise to GenAI: An Insightful Study on Fine-Tuning

Adding Expertise to GenAI: An Insightful Study on Fine-Tuning
by Bernard Murphy on 11-12-2025 at 6:00 am

AI Model Tuner

I wrote earlier about how deep expertise, say for high-quality RTL design or verification, must be extracted from in-house know-how and datasets. In general, such methods start with one of many possible pre-trained models (GPT, Llama, Gemini, etc.). To this consultants or in-house teams add fine-tuning training, initially… Read More


EDA Has a Value Capture Problem — An Outsider’s View

EDA Has a Value Capture Problem — An Outsider’s View
by Admin on 11-11-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Liyue Yan (lyan1@bu.edu)

Fact 1: In the Computer History Museum, how many artifacts are about Electronic Design Automation (EDA)? Zero.

Fact 2: The average starting base salary for a software engineer at Netflix is $219K, and that number is $125K for Cadence; the starting base salary for a hardware engineer at Cadence is $119K… Read More


WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity

WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity
by Daniel Nenni on 11-11-2025 at 8:00 am

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In the race to power ever-larger AI models, raw compute is only half the battle. The real challenge lies in moving massive datasets between processors, accelerators, and memory at speeds that keep up with trillion-parameter workloads. Synopsys tackles this head-on with its webinar, How PCIe Multistream Architecture is EnablingRead More


A Six-Minute Journey to Secure Chip Design with Caspia

A Six-Minute Journey to Secure Chip Design with Caspia
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-11-2025 at 6:00 am

A Six Minute Journey to Secure Hardware Design with Caspia

Hardware-level chip security has become an important topic across the semiconductor ecosystem. Thanks to sophisticated AI-fueled attacks, the hardware root of trust and its firmware are now vulnerable. And unlike software security, an instantiated weakness cannot be patched. The implications of such vulnerabilities are… Read More


Lessons from the DeepChip Wars: What a Decade-old Debate Teaches Us About Tech Evolution

Lessons from the DeepChip Wars: What a Decade-old Debate Teaches Us About Tech Evolution
by Lauro Rizzatti on 11-10-2025 at 10:00 am

Lessons from the DeepChip wars Table

The competitive landscape of hardware-assisted verification (HAV) has evolved dramatically over the past decade. The strategic drivers that once defined the market have shifted in step with the rapidly changing dynamics of semiconductor design.

Design complexity has soared, with modern SoCs now integrating tens of billions… Read More


Think Quantum Computing is Hype? Mastercard Begs to Disagree

Think Quantum Computing is Hype? Mastercard Begs to Disagree
by Bernard Murphy on 11-10-2025 at 6:00 am

Just got an opportunity to write a blog on PQShield, and I’m delighted for several reasons. Happy to work with a company based in Oxford and happy to work on a quantum computing-related topic, which you’ll find I will be getting into more deeply over coming months. (Need a little relief from a constant stream of AI topics.) Also important,… Read More


CEO Interview with Roy Barnes of TPC

CEO Interview with Roy Barnes of TPC
by Daniel Nenni on 11-08-2025 at 10:00 am

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Roy Barnes is the group president of The Partner Companies (TPC), a specialty manufacturer, overseeing TPC’s photochemical etching companies: Elcon, E-Fab, Fotofab, Microphoto and PEI.

Roy is an experienced leader known for building strong teams, driving change and inspiring people to succeed. Throughout his career, he … Read More


CEO Interview with Mr. Shoichi Teshiba of Macnica ATD

CEO Interview with Mr. Shoichi Teshiba of Macnica ATD
by Daniel Nenni on 11-08-2025 at 6:00 am

Shoichi Teshiba

With over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing of semiconductors and electronic components, Mr. Shoichi Teshiba has worked across a broad range of industries including storage, servers, networking, consumer electronics, industrial equipment, and automotive. Combining deep insight into both domestic and global… Read More


Video EP11: Meeting the Challenges of Superconducting Quantum System Design with Mohamed Hassan

Video EP11: Meeting the Challenges of Superconducting Quantum System Design with Mohamed Hassan
by Daniel Nenni on 11-07-2025 at 10:00 am
In this episode of the Semiconductor Insiders video series,  Dan is joined by Mohamed Hassan, who leads the Quantum EDA segment at Keysight. Mohamed provides a broad overview of superconducting quantum system design. He discusses the challenges for this design style and how EDA requirements for quantum design differ from
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TSMC Kumamoto: Pioneering Japan’s Semiconductor Revival

TSMC Kumamoto: Pioneering Japan’s Semiconductor Revival
by Daniel Nenni on 11-07-2025 at 6:00 am

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In the lush landscapes of Kumamoto Prefecture, on Japan’s Kyushu Island, TSMC is etching a new chapter in global chip production. The TSMC Kumamoto facility, operationalized through its wholly-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), represents the Taiwanese giant’s bold foray… Read More