In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Quadric stands out as a pioneering force in edge computing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Quadric is a technology company focused on developing high-performance, energy-efficient processors for AI workloads at the edge devices like smartphones, IoT … Read More
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By Kamal Khan
In today’s semiconductor industry, success hinges not only on innovation but also on discipline in managing complexity. Every system-on-chip (SoC) is built from hundreds of reusable IP blocks—standard cells, memories, interfaces, and analog components. These IPs are the foundation of the design. But if the foundation… Read More
U.S. Electronics Production Growing
U.S. electronics production has been on an accelerating growth trend over the last ten months. Three-month average change versus a year ago (3/12 change) has increased from 0.4% in October 2024 to 6.2% in August 2025. Japan’s 3/12 change has been positive since November 2024, but has been decelerating for most of 2025, reaching… Read More
Failure Prevention with Real-Time Health Monitoring: A proteanTecs Innovation
In the complex world of semiconductors, reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) have become paramount, especially as devices shrink to nanoscale geometries like 2nm. At the recent 2025 TSMC OIP Forum Noam Brousard, VP of Solutions Engineering at proteanTecs, presented “Failure Prevention with Real-Time… Read More
Podcast EP314: An Overview of Toshiba’s Strength in Power Electronics with Jake Canon
Daniel is joined by Jake Canon, senior business development engineer at Toshiba America Electronic Components. Jake is an enthusiastic contributor to the semiconductor industry and has been working closely with engineers to find new discrete power solutions for a wide variety of cutting-edge applications.
Dan explores the… Read More
Inference Acceleration from the Ground Up
VSORA, a pioneering high-tech company, has engineered a novel architecture designed specifically to meet the stringent demands of AI inference—both in datacenters and at the edge. With near-theoretical performance in latency, throughput, and energy efficiency, VSORA’s architecture breaks away from legacy designs optimized… Read More
AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Revolutionizing Semiconductor Design
The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the integration of AI into DRC workflows, as showcased in the Siemens EDA presentation at the 2025 TSMC OIP. Titled “AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization,” this initiative, led by Siemens EDA’s David Abercrombie alongside AMD’s… Read More
Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in Verification
GPUs have been proposed before to accelerate logic simulation but haven’t quite met the need yet. This is a new attempt based on emulating emulator flows. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series… Read More
CEO Interview with Wilfred Gomes of Mueon Corporation
Wilfred Gomes is the co-founder, CEO, and president of Mueon Corporation, a next-generation infrastructure startup rethinking how data centers are built for the AI era. The company’s flagship innovation, Cubelets™, modular, stackable units that unite compute, memory, power delivery and thermal management, replace the … Read More
Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart’s Cognitum Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient Intelligence
One of the more in interesting companies I met at the AI Infra Summit was a company known to me for some time. The most interesting part was the chip they are in the process of taping out; It is a high-performance, ultra-low-power AI processor purpose-built for edge computing. It is claimed to deliver “the processing muscle … Read More


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