WEBINAR: The Convergence of Edge Accelerators

WEBINAR: The Convergence of Edge Accelerators
by Daniel Nenni on 10-08-2026 at 8:00 am

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The rapid growth of AI at the edge is forcing SoC architects to rethink traditional processor designs. Dedicated NPUs deliver impressive performance for today’s models, but evolving AI workloads, increasing system complexity and growing pressure on power and silicon budgets are exposing the limitations of fixed-function… Read More


Siemens CTO update on Calibre at DAC 2026

Siemens CTO update on Calibre at DAC 2026
by Daniel Payne on 10-05-2026 at 10:00 am

Juan Rey

At DAC 2026 I had the opportunity to speak with Juan Rey, CTO Siemens EDA about the Calibre product used for IC physical verification, circuit verification, 3D IC and DFM optimization. Juan has been involved with Calibre since 2001, served on the Board of Directors of Silicon Integration Initiative (SI2), on the Executive Technology… Read More


TSMC’s AI Design Kit: Bringing Agentic AI Into Chip Design

TSMC’s AI Design Kit: Bringing Agentic AI Into Chip Design
by Daniel Nenni on 10-01-2026 at 10:00 am

TSMC’s AI Design Kit Bringing Agentic AI Into Chip Design

TSMC is introducing an AI Design Kit, or ADK, to help artificial intelligence tools make better use of its semiconductor manufacturing knowledge. The idea is to give AI agents that run chip-design workflows a technology-specific foundation, so they can adjust designs toward performance, power and area targets with less manual… Read More


Synopsys Announces AgentEngineer Solutions and Autopilot Platform for Autonomous Engineering

Synopsys Announces AgentEngineer Solutions and Autopilot Platform for Autonomous Engineering
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-28-2026 at 6:00 am

updated from ai assisants to autonomous engineering

Synopsys today announced its AgentEngineerTM solutions portfolio and AutopilotTM Platform, advancing a fundamental paradigm shift in electronic design automation (EDA): moving beyond AI copilots toward autonomous engineering agents. Following a recent technical briefing with Thomas Andersen, Vice President of AI and… Read More


Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference

Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-24-2026 at 2:00 pm

Image for Article 2 SemiWiki Tokens per Watt or per Dollar

👉 This is Part 2 of an editorial series on the evolving economics of AI inference. If you missed Part 1, where I broke down the shift toward full-system integration, the lessons from the AI Infra Summit, and the “no forks” open-source philosophy, you can read it HERE: Beyond the Accelerator: Why Silicon Challengers … Read More


WEBINAR: Porting, Analysing & Optimising AI Models onto Edge GPUs

WEBINAR: Porting, Analysing & Optimising AI Models onto Edge GPUs
by Admin on 09-21-2026 at 9:59 pm

Running AI models efficiently at the edge is about more than hardware TOPS. In this session, we’ll walk through the end-to-end process of porting, analysing and optimising modern AI models for edge GPUs, using Qwen 3.5 as a practical example. Learn how to take a model from framework to deployment, identify performance bottlenecks,… Read More


Webinar: LPO: Inside the First Standards-Compliant 112G Optical PHY

Webinar: LPO: Inside the First Standards-Compliant 112G Optical PHY
by Admin on 09-21-2026 at 9:27 pm

Featured Speaker:

  • Kant Deshpande, Architect, Technical Product Management, Synopsys

As AI/ML clusters scale toward 800G, 1.6T, and beyond, the optical DSP/retimer functions inside conventional transceivers (FRO) are becoming a significant bottleneck — adding power, latency, and cost to every link at a time when interconnects… Read More