Podcast EP207: How Achronix is Enabling Multi-Die Design and a Chiplet Ecosystem with Nick Ilyadis

Podcast EP207: How Achronix is Enabling Multi-Die Design and a Chiplet Ecosystem with Nick Ilyadis
by Daniel Nenni on 02-09-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Nick Ilyadis, vice president of product planning at Achronix. Prior to Achronix, Nick was vice president of portfolio and technology strategy at Marvell Semiconductor and vice president and group CTO at Broadcom. Nick has also held many engineering roles during his career, starting as a chip designer and moving… Read More


Podcast EP206: An assessment of the Chiplet Ecosystem Movement with Alphawave’s Tony Chan Carusone

Podcast EP206: An assessment of the Chiplet Ecosystem Movement with Alphawave’s Tony Chan Carusone
by Daniel Nenni on 02-02-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Tony Chan Carusone, Chief Technology Officer of Alphawave Semi. Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001 and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of the world’s leading… Read More


Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer

Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer
by Daniel Nenni on 01-26-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Paul Fischer. Paul is the director of Chip Mesoscale Processing in Intel’s Components Research. He and his team are currently working on Gallium Nitride for energy efficient power delivery and RF communications, and technologies for heterogeneous monolithic integration.

Paul discusses the innovations… Read More


Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski

Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer at Arteris. He brings more than two decades of technology-based strategy, marketing and growth acceleration. Prior to joining Arteris, he served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Cadence, and through his leadership, the company’s… Read More


Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish

Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish
by Daniel Nenni on 01-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Randy Fish, Director of Product Line Management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) family at Synopsys. Randy has over 30 years of experience in the EDA, IP and semiconductor industries.

In this broad view of SLM, Randy explains what is special about monitoring and optimizing embedded memories. It turns… Read More


Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines

Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 01-08-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Wally Rhines for a discussion of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the EDA companies in the world and compile it by product category and region where the sales occurred. It’s the most reliable data … Read More


Podcast EP201: A Retrospective of Semiconductor Innovation with Dr. Mukta Farooq, and Advice for Future Innovators

Podcast EP201: A Retrospective of Semiconductor Innovation with Dr. Mukta Farooq, and Advice for Future Innovators
by Daniel Nenni on 01-05-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by 2023 recipient of the J.J. Ebers award, Dr. Mukta Farooq. This is the highest technical award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Mukta is the first woman to earn this prestigious award.

Throughout her career Dr. Farooq has been a trailblazer. She was the first female to earn a Bachelors of Science in Metallurgical… Read More


Podcast EP200: Dan and Mike’s Top Ten List For the Semiconductor Industry

Podcast EP200: Dan and Mike’s Top Ten List For the Semiconductor Industry
by Daniel Nenni on 12-29-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by podcast producer and collaborator Mike Gianfagna for Semiconductor Insiders episode 200. Dan and Mike look over the past two years (and 200 podcasts) to develop a top ten list of changes and innovation in the semiconductor industry. There is a lot of back-story detail on each topic in this far-reaching discussion.… Read More


Podcast EP199: How Rambus is Helping to Counter the Security Threats of Quantum Computing with Scott Best

Podcast EP199: How Rambus is Helping to Counter the Security Threats of Quantum Computing with Scott Best
by Daniel Nenni on 12-22-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Scott Best, technical director at Rambus. His research areas are memory architectures, 3D packaging, and security processors. Scott joined Rambus in 1998 and has served in many and varied technical roles. He has become one of the most prolific inventors in the company’s history. Over the course of his career at … Read More


Podcast EP198: How Lightmatter Creates the Foundation for the Next Moore’s Law with Ritesh Jain

Podcast EP198: How Lightmatter Creates the Foundation for the Next Moore’s Law with Ritesh Jain
by Daniel Nenni on 12-15-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Ritesh Jain. Ritesh is the senior vice president of engineering and operations for Lightmatter. Prior to joining Lightmatter, Ritesh was a vice president in Intel’s Data Center and AI group where he directed the hardware development across silicon packaging, power integrity, signal integrity, mechanical &… Read More