Podcast EP142: The Drive Toward a More Sustainable Semiconductor Industry with EMD Electronic’s Anand Nambiar

Podcast EP142: The Drive Toward a More Sustainable Semiconductor Industry with EMD Electronic’s Anand Nambiar
by Daniel Nenni on 02-03-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Anand Nambiar, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Semiconductor Materials at EMD Electronics, the North American Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Anand has over 23 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry. His previous roles include Associate Director – Quality… Read More


Podcast EP141: The Role of Synopsys High-Speed SerDes for Future Ethernet Applications

Podcast EP141: The Role of Synopsys High-Speed SerDes for Future Ethernet Applications
by Daniel Nenni on 01-27-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Priyank Shukla, Staff Product Manager for the Synopsys High Speed SerDes IP portfolio. He has broad experience in analog, mixed-signal design with strong focus on high performance compute, mobile and automotive SoCs and he has a US patent on low power RTC design.

Dan explores the use of high-speed SerDes with Priyank.… Read More


Podcast EP140: Hyperstone’s Unique Position as a Supplier to the Industrial Market

Podcast EP140: Hyperstone’s Unique Position as a Supplier to the Industrial Market
by Daniel Nenni on 01-24-2023 at 6:00 am

Dan is joined by Steffen Allert. Since 2007, Steffen has been the Vice President of Sales for Hyperstone, a producer of Flash Memory Controllers for Industrial Embedded Storage Solutions. Steffen brings more than 20 years of sales and management experience in the semiconductor and electronics market.

Dan explores the unique … Read More


Podcast EP139: The Third Quarter ESDA Market Data Report with Dr. Walden Rhines

Podcast EP139: The Third Quarter ESDA Market Data Report with Dr. Walden Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2023 at 8:00 am

Dan discusses the recent Q3 2022 ESDA report with Wally Rhines, Executive Sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data report. While not tracking the record-breaking growth that has been seen over the past few quarters, growth is generally quite strong across the world. Dan explores the numbers with Wally, including some… Read More


Podcast EP138: The Impact of Using a Physically Aware NoC with Charlie Janac

Podcast EP138: The Impact of Using a Physically Aware NoC with Charlie Janac
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Charlie Janac, president and CEO of Arteris IP. Charlie’s career spans 20 years in multiple industries, including design automation, semiconductor capital equipment, nanotechnology, industrial polymers, and venture capital.

Charlie discusses the benefits of using network-on-chip, or NoC IP on several… Read More


Podcast EP137: The International Impact of Accellera’s Work

Podcast EP137: The International Impact of Accellera’s Work
by Daniel Nenni on 01-13-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Lu Dai who is currently a Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm. Previously he was Senior Director of Engineering, leading Qualcomm’s SoC design verification team and front-end methodologies and initiatives. Lu is Chair of Accellera Systems Initiative and serves on the Board of Directors at RISC-V… Read More


Podcast EP136: Semiconductor Industry Update with Malcolm Penn

Podcast EP136: Semiconductor Industry Update with Malcolm Penn
by Daniel Nenni on 01-11-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons. Malcolm is a contributor to SemiWiki and a frequent podcast guest.

Dan and Malcolm discuss what happened in the semi industry last year and what 2023 and 2024 will look like and why. The discussion is a preview to Malcolm’s upcoming Industry Update Webinar on January … Read More


Podcast EP135: Democratizing HPC & AI

Podcast EP135: Democratizing HPC & AI
by Daniel Nenni on 01-06-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Doug Norton, VP of Business Development for Inspire Semiconductor, an Austin-based high performance computing chip design company.  He is also the President of the Society of HPC Professionals, a vendor neutral, non-profit organization educating and connecting the High Performance Computing user community.… Read More


Podcast EP134: A New Year’s Perspective with Daniel Nenni and Mike Gianfagna

Podcast EP134: A New Year’s Perspective with Daniel Nenni and Mike Gianfagna
by Daniel Nenni on 12-30-2022 at 6:00 am

Dan is joined by his podcast partner and producer Mike Gianfagna. Dan and Mike review the hot topics that trended on SemiWiki over the past year.

Included are discussions about how the semiconductor industry is changing, touching on Moore’s law, chiplets. and government intervention.The forces that are changing semis are… Read More


Podcast EP133: OpenLight and Their Revolutionary Approach to Photonics

Podcast EP133: OpenLight and Their Revolutionary Approach to Photonics
by Daniel Nenni on 12-23-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Thomas Mader, Tom is the Chief Operating Officer of OpenLight, a newly formed independent company by investments from Synopsys and Juniper Networks. Dr. Mader’s experience spans 27 years across the photonics and consumer electronics industries. Prior to the formation of OpenLight, he led the same team within… Read More