The worldwide TSMC 2025 Technology Symposium recently kicked off with the first event in Santa Clara, California. These events typically focus on TSMC’s process technology and vast ecosystem. These items were certainly a focus for this year’s event as well. But there is now an additional item that shares the spotlight – packaging… Read More
Webinar – IP Design Considerations for Real-Time Edge AI SystemsIt is well-known that semiconductor growth is driven…Read More
WEBINAR: Design and Stability Analysis of GaN Power Amplifiers using Advanced Simulation ToolsWhy should high frequency circuit designers consider stability…Read More
Visualizing hidden parasitic effects in advanced IC design By Omar Elabd As semiconductor designs move below…Read More
Statically Verifying RTL Connectivity with SynopsysMany years ago, not long after we first…Read More
Assertion IP (AIP) for Improved Design VerificationOver the years design reuse methodology created a…Read MoreTSMC 2025 Technical Symposium Briefing
At the pre-conference briefing, Dr. Kevin Zhang gave quite a few of us media types an overview of what will be highlighted at the 2025 TSMC Technical Symposium here in Silicon Valley. Since most of the semiconductor media are not local this was a very nice thing to do. I will be at the conference and will write more tomorrow after the … Read More
Perspectives from Cadence on Data Center Challenges and Trends
From my vantage point in the EDA foxhole it can be easy to forget that Cadence also has interests in much broader technology domains. One of these is in data center modeling and optimization, through their Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform. This is an area in which they already have significant track record collaborating with… Read More
Semiconductor Tariff Impact
President Donald Trump has initially excluded semiconductors from his latest round of U.S. tariffs. However, he could put tariffs on semiconductors in the future. If tariffs are placed on semiconductors imported to the U.S., how would that affect U.S.-based semiconductor companies? The chart below shows U.S. semiconductor… Read More
Designing and Simulating Next Generation Data Centers and AI Factories
At NVIDIA’s recent GTC conference, a Cadence-NVIDIA joint session provided insights into how AI-powered innovation is reshaping the future of data center infrastructure. Led by Kourosh Nemati, Senior Data Center Cooling and Infrastructure Engineer from NVIDIA and Sherman Ikemoto, Sales Development Group Director from … Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Michael Förtsch of Q.ANT
Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, is a physicist and innovator driving advancements in photonic computing and sensing technologies. With a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, he leads Q.ANT’s development of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) technology, delivering groundbreaking energy efficiency … Read More
Verifying Leakage Across Power Domains
IC designs need to operate reliably under varying conditions and avoid inefficiencies like leakage across power domains. But how do you verify that connections between IP blocks has been done properly? This is where reliability verification, Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) tools and dynamic simulations all come into play particularly… Read More
How Cadence is Building the Physical Infrastructure of the AI Era
At the 2025 NVIDIA GTC Conference, CEO Jensen Huang delivered a sweeping keynote that painted the future of computing in bold strokes: a world powered by AI factories, built on accelerated computing, and driven by agentic, embodied AI capable of interacting with the physical world. He introduced the concept of Physical AI—intelligence… Read More
TSMC’s Innovations in Physical Design for Semiconductor Scaling
In a 2017 ISPD presentation, TSMC Fellow LC Lu outlined critical challenges and innovations in physical design to sustain power, speed, and area scaling trends in semiconductors. As Moore’s Law faces economic hurdles, process-design co-optimization emerges as key to extending it. Lu emphasized application-optimized… Read More
Podcast EP284: Current Capabilities and Future Focus at Intel Foundry Services with Kevin O’Buckley
Dan is joined by Kevin O’Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for driving continued growth for Intel Foundry and its differentiated systems foundry offerings, which go beyond traditional wafer fabrication to include packaging, chiplet… Read More


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