Podcast EP277: How Arteris FlexGen Smart NoC IP Democratizes Advanced Chip Design with Rick Bye

Podcast EP277: How Arteris FlexGen Smart NoC IP Democratizes Advanced Chip Design with Rick Bye
by Daniel Nenni on 03-07-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Rick Bye, director of product management and marketing at Arteris with responsibility for the FlexNoC family of non-coherent Network-on-Chip IP products. Rick joined Arteris from Arm where he was a senior product manager in the Client Line of Business, responsible for a demonstration SoC and compression IP. … Read More


Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano

Podcast EP276: How Alphawave Semi is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Systems with Letizia Giuliano
by Daniel Nenni on 02-28-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Letizia Giuliano, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management at Alphawave Semi. She specializes in architecting cutting-edge solutions for high-speed connectivity and chiplet design architecture. Prior to her role at Alphawave Semi, Letizia held the position of Product Line Manager at Intel, where… Read More


Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand

Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Sebastien Clamagirand, Global Senior Vice President of Automotive System Engineering and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors. Sebastien focuses on system solutions for vehicle architectures that support the shift to software-defined vehicles. Under his leadership, NXP delivers pre-integrated, scalable … Read More


Podcast EP274: How Axiomise Makes Formal Predictable and Normal with Dr. Ashish Darbari

Podcast EP274: How Axiomise Makes Formal Predictable and Normal with Dr. Ashish Darbari
by Daniel Nenni on 02-14-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Ashish Darbari, CEO of Axiomise. Axiomise was founded in 2017 by Dr. Darbari, who has spent over two decades in the industry and top research labs increasing formal verification adoption. At Axiomise, they believe the only way to make formal methods mainstream for all semiconductor design verification is to… Read More


Podcast EP273: An Overview of the RISC-V Market and CAST’s unique Abilities to Grow the Market with Evan Price

Podcast EP273: An Overview of the RISC-V Market and CAST’s unique Abilities to Grow the Market with Evan Price
by Daniel Nenni on 02-07-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Evan Price, Product Manager for embedded processors at CAST. Evan has had a diverse and successful 15-year career developing, then leading as project manager and director, with a variety of semiconductor-based products. Evan joined CAST in 2024 and provides technical support as well as handling product marketing… Read More


Video EP1: A Discussion of Meeting the Challenges to Implement Gen AI in Semiconductor Design with Vishal Moondhra

Video EP1: A Discussion of Meeting the Challenges to Implement Gen AI in Semiconductor Design with Vishal Moondhra
by Daniel Nenni on 02-05-2025 at 10:00 am

In this inaugural episode of the new Semiconductor Insiders video series, Dan is joined by Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions Engineering at Perforce Helix IPLM. Dan explores the risks and challenges of using Gen AI in the semiconductor industry with Vishal. Liability, traceability, cost, and quality are discussed. The challenges… Read More


Podcast EP272: An Overview How AI is Changing Semiconductor and System Design with Dr. Sailesh Kumar

Podcast EP272: An Overview How AI is Changing Semiconductor and System Design with Dr. Sailesh Kumar
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel Nenni is joined by Dr. Sailesh Kumar, CEO of Baya Systems. With over two decades of experience, Sailesh is a seasoned expert in SoC, fabric, I/O, memory architecture, and algorithms. Previously, Sailesh founded NetSpeed Systems and served as its Chief Technology Officer until its successful acquisition by Intel. Sailesh… Read More


Podcast EP271: A Tour of SiLC’s LiDAR Technology and Its Broad Impact with Mehdi Asghari

Podcast EP271: A Tour of SiLC’s LiDAR Technology and Its Broad Impact with Mehdi Asghari
by Daniel Nenni on 01-24-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by SiLC Technologies CEO Mehdi Asghari. Mehdi is one of the early pioneers of the silicon photonics industry with over 25 years of commercialization experience in this space. SiLC is his third Silicon Photonics start-up focusing on advanced imaging solutions. His previous startups, Kotura and Bookham, both enabled… Read More


Podcast EP269: A Broad View of Semiconductor Market Dynamics with Rajiv Khemani

Podcast EP269: A Broad View of Semiconductor Market Dynamics with Rajiv Khemani
by Daniel Nenni on 01-10-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Rajiv Khemani, a serial entrepreneur and an industry leader with 25 years of experience in building and scaling businesses. He is currently co-founder & CEO of Auradine. He is also an investor and board member in the data infrastructure, AI and software/platforms space. Previously, Rajiv was co-founder &… Read More


Podcast EP268: A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story

Podcast EP268: A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story
by Daniel Nenni on 12-27-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined Dr. Douglas Sparks, CEO of M2N Technologies LLC, a consulting firm specializing in semiconductors, MEMS and sensors, including their supply chains. He has just published a new book, A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story. Doug was the CTO of Hanking Electronics which built a high-volume… Read More