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Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea

Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
by Jonah McLeod on 04-08-2026 at 12:00 pm

Intel Terafab SemiWiki

Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
Why do professional executives running major corporations frame a major moment in their company’s history with a tweet? Jerry Sanders, who passed away just last December, spent his career yelling “real men have fabs!” Now Intel has fabs–and… Read More


Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs

Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 04-08-2026 at 8:00 am

Agentic AI Requires More CPUs

Agentic AI workloads are reshaping the compute requirements of modern data center infrastructure by shifting performance bottlenecks from GPU-centric inference to CPU-heavy orchestration and workflow management. Traditional AI inference pipelines relied primarily on GPUs performing a single forward pass, where input… Read More


Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center

Musk’s Orbital Compute Vision: TERAFAB and the End of the Terrestrial Data Center
by Jonah McLeod on 03-27-2026 at 6:00 am

Terafab Elon Musk 2026

At the TERAFAB launch event in Austin on March 21, Elon Musk made a prediction that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago—and may still: roughly 80 percent of AI compute will eventually move off-planet.

The argument is straightforward once you accept his premises. Earth-based data centers face three hard constraints—land,… Read More


Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era

Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era
by Daniel Nenni on 03-26-2026 at 10:00 am

Silicon Insurance Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin

As semiconductor technology advances into increasingly complex and expensive process nodes, the economic and technical risks associated with ASIC design have grown dramatically. At advanced nodes such as Intel 18A, the cost of a single design error can escalate into tens of millions of dollars, compounded by months of delay.… Read More


Captain America: Can Elon Musk Save America’s Chip Manufacturing Industry?

Captain America: Can Elon Musk Save America’s Chip Manufacturing Industry?
by Jonah McLeod on 03-20-2026 at 6:00 am

Elon Musk Lip Bu Tan Wafer Deal

Intel has posted three consecutive years of falling revenue and an $18.76 billion loss in 2024 alone—and the U.S. government has handed it tens of billions of dollars to fix the problem. The government money isn’t fixing the real issue, which isn’t technical. It’s cultural. Intel got slow, political, and risk-averse—the… Read More


TSMC Technology Symposium 2026: Advancing the Future of Semiconductor Innovation

TSMC Technology Symposium 2026: Advancing the Future of Semiconductor Innovation
by Daniel Nenni on 03-16-2026 at 10:00 am

TSMC Technology Symposium 2026

One of my favorite times of the year is coming (sailing season) and my favorite event of the year is coming as the company I most respect will host the best international semiconductor networking event starting here in Silicon Valley.

The 32nd annual TSMC Technology Symposium represents one of the most influential events in the … Read More


Tesla and Samsung Relationship Update

Tesla and Samsung Relationship Update
by Daniel Nenni on 03-15-2026 at 8:00 am

Elon Musk Lip Bu Tan Wafer Deal

The majority of my 40+ year career has been spent managing the relationship between leading-edge semiconductor design and manufacture, working with just about every commercial foundry and top customer in one way or another. It’s my thing—it fascinates me. I’m also a fan of disruption, and the latest disruptions the semiconductor… Read More


Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement
by Mark Webb on 03-11-2026 at 8:00 am

Intel Foundry How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

How do you get a shortage while not growing???

Intel Announced earnings in January. Then David Zinsner presented updates on business this week. David is open when talking and always shares 2-3 things he probably should not share. Often he shares things some of us know, but we cannot present because it is not public. Then he makes it… Read More


Advanced Architectures for Hybrid III-V/Silicon Quantum Cascade Lasers

Advanced Architectures for Hybrid III-V/Silicon Quantum Cascade Lasers
by Daniel Nenni on 03-10-2026 at 8:00 am

CAE INL 2025

Mid-infrared (MIR) photonic integrated circuits are emerging as a key technology for applications ranging from environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics to defense and industrial process control. The MIR spectral region, often referred to as the molecular “fingerprint” region, exhibits strong absorption features… Read More


Operationalizing Secure Semiconductor Collaboration: Safely, Globally, and at Scale

Operationalizing Secure Semiconductor Collaboration: Safely, Globally, and at Scale
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-09-2026 at 6:00 am

Collaboration Framework

Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most complex industrial activities in existence. As device geometries shrink and systems become more interconnected, software has become as critical as process technology itself. Modern fabs depend on extensive automation, real-time analytics, and deep integration between tools,… Read More