In early January 2026, Weebit Nano Ltd. (ASX: WBT) released a comprehensive report detailing its performance against the 2025 commercial and technical targets the company had set at its 2024 Annual General Meeting. The announcement highlighted significant progress in both business development and technology qualification,… Read More
Designing the Future: AI-Driven Multi-Die Innovation in the Era of Agentic EngineeringAt the 2026 Chiplet Summit, Synopsys presented a…Read More
An Agentic Formal Verifier. Innovation in VerificationIn a break from our academic-centric picks, here…Read More
Reimagining Compute in the Age of Dispersed IntelligenceAt the 2025 RISC-V Summit, amid debates over…Read More
Siemens to Deliver Industry-Leading PCB Test Engineering SolutionsSiemens has strengthened its position in EDA and…Read More
Agentic EDA Panel Review Suggests Promise and Near-Term GuidanceNetApp recently hosted a webinar on Agentic AI…Read More2026 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Quadric, where I have spent the past four years helping scale the company’s market presence and customer engagement. Quadric is a pure-play IP licensing company that has been operating for more than seven years. We specialize in a truly unique,… Read More
Hierarchical Device Planning as an Enabler of System Technology Co-Optimization
AI, hyperscale data centers, and data-intensive workloads are driving unprecedented demands for performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. As the economic returns of traditional transistor scaling diminish, advanced IC packaging and heterogeneous integration have become the primary levers for system-level scaling.… Read More
SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion
In a strategic move that could reshape the future of AI data center design, SiFive, a leading developer of RISC-V processor IP and compute subsystems, has announced plans to integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its high-performance data center platforms. This collaboration bridges the open-architecture… Read More
2026 Outlook with Dave Hwang of Alchip
Dr. Dave Hwang joined Alchip in 2021 as General Manager of Alchip’s North America Business Unit. He also serves as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Prior to join Alchip, Dave served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Global Unichip and in a variety of management and technical roles at TSMC.
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… Read MoreAgentic at the Edge in Automotive and Industry
It might seem from popular debate around AI and agentic that everything in this field is purely digital, initiated through text or voice prompts, often cloud-based or on-prem. But that view misses so much. AI is already an everyday experience at the edge, for voice-based control, in object detection and safety-triggered braking… Read More
TSMC’s CoWoS® Sustainability Drive: Turning Waste into Wealth
In a significant example of how high-tech manufacturing can embrace environmental stewardship without compromising operational excellence, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has launched a sustainability initiative within its advanced packaging operations that both reduces waste and generates meaningful… Read More
Podcast EP328:A Brief History of Chip Design and AI with Dr. Bernard Murphy
Daniel is joined by Dr. Bernard Murphy, a friend and fellow blogger on SemiWiki.
Dan explores some key milestones in Bernard’s journey in semiconductors and EDA, beginning with a focus on nuclear physics. Bernard explains how he developed an interest in AI technology and applications. In this broad and informative discussion,… Read More
Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges: Duty Cycle
As process nodes advance, circuit behavior becomes progressively more challenging to analyze and predict. Few systems reflect this challenge more clearly than the clock network. These large, complex networks no longer behave as ideal digital signals. Instead, they operate as distributed electrical systems shaped by non-linear… Read More
2026 Outlook with Krishna Anne of Agile Analog
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I have worked in the global semiconductor industry for over 30 years, with major semiconductor companies such as Rambus, AMD and Broadcom, as well as with start-ups such as SCI Semiconductor and DataTrails. I started my career as a digital circuit designer, then moved into marketing,… Read More


Advancing Automotive Memory: Development of an 8nm 128Mb Embedded STT-MRAM with Sub-ppm Reliability