Webinar: Defacto is Boosting Front-end SoC Design With AI-Powered EDA tools

Webinar: Defacto is Boosting Front-end SoC Design With AI-Powered EDA tools
by Admin on 06-26-2026 at 11:14 am

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As SoC design complexity grows and design windows shrink, EDA tools must evolve beyond traditional workflows. AI is the catalyst!

This webinar explores what the next generation of EDA tools and design platforms should look like when built with AI in the middle. We’ll… Read More


Semidynamics Brings Its Full Inference Stack to ISC HPC 2026 — And Why It Matters

Semidynamics Brings Its Full Inference Stack to ISC HPC 2026 — And Why It Matters
by Daniel Nenni on 06-23-2026 at 2:00 pm

Semidynamics Brings Its Full Inference Stack to ISC HPC 2026

AI inference is quickly becoming the real battleground for next-generation computing. Training still gets the headlines, but inference is where AI becomes a business, a service, and an infrastructure problem. Every chatbot response, agentic workflow, code assistant, scientific model, and enterprise copilot depends on … Read More


Alchip Accelerates on AI ASIC Demand

Alchip Accelerates on AI ASIC Demand
by Daniel Nenni on 06-04-2026 at 8:00 am

Alchip Accelerates on AI ASIC Demand

Alchip Technologies reported improved financial results for the first quarter, reflecting continued momentum in advanced artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and custom ASIC demand. The company cited stronger customer engagement in leading-edge semiconductor designs and accelerating tape-out… Read More


TSMC Pioneers a New Era in AI-Powered Trade Secret Management, Achieving Intelligent Innovation

TSMC Pioneers a New Era in AI-Powered Trade Secret Management, Achieving Intelligent Innovation
by Daniel Nenni on 06-02-2026 at 6:00 am

TSMC Pioneers a New Era in AI Powered Trade Secret Management

As semiconductor manufacturing becomes increasingly knowledge-intensive, protecting intellectual property and trade secrets has emerged as a strategic imperative. The world’s leading foundry, TSMC is advancing beyond conventional information security practices by integrating artificial intelligence into… Read More


Library Characterization gets a Boost from AI

Library Characterization gets a Boost from AI
by Daniel Payne on 05-25-2026 at 8:00 am

solido characterizer

The semiconductor industry creates increasingly complex SoC and chiplets using lots of IP and all of that IP needs to be characterized at the cell level. As we design with 3nm and 2nm nodes, the sheer volume of data required for accurate static timing analysis (STA) is greatly increasing. Modern design flows rely on characterized… Read More


imec IC-Link and TSMC 3DFabric Alliance Expansion Signals New Era of System-Level Scaling

imec IC-Link and TSMC 3DFabric Alliance Expansion Signals New Era of System-Level Scaling
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2026 at 6:00 am

TSMC 3DFabric Alliance Expansion Signals New Era of System Level Scaling

imec announced that IC-Link by imec has joined the TSMC 3DFabric Alliance, a strategically important move that reflects the semiconductor industry’s transition from traditional monolithic scaling toward heterogeneous integration, chiplet architectures, and advanced packaging-driven system optimization. The partnership… Read More


From the Selfie to Samantha: The Next Trillion-Dollar Behavior

From the Selfie to Samantha: The Next Trillion-Dollar Behavior
by Jonah McLeod on 05-18-2026 at 8:00 am

Yuning Jonah

At CES 2026, Samsung called it a “companion.” Lenovo called it “ambient intelligence.” OpenAI spent $6.4 billion on a screenless device designed to be a continuous presence in your pocket. Meta acquired Limitless, the AI pendant that had been tracking everything its wearers said and heard. Every major consumer electronics company… Read More


Dr. L.C. Lu on TSMC Advanced Technology Design Solutions

Dr. L.C. Lu on TSMC Advanced Technology Design Solutions
by Daniel Nenni on 05-01-2026 at 6:00 am

L.C. Lu TSMC Senior Fellow and Vice President, Research and Development Design & Technology Platform (1)

L.C. leads efforts in design enablement, ensuring that the company can meet the diverse and evolving requirements of its global customer base. Prior to this, he headed the Design and Technology Platform organization starting in 2018.

Since joining TSMC in 2000, Dr. Lu has held multiple leadership positions in design services.… Read More