The $9.5 Billion Design IP Market: Shifting Boundaries, Arm’s Monopoly, and the RISC-V Response

The $9.5 Billion Design IP Market: Shifting Boundaries, Arm’s Monopoly, and the RISC-V Response
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-04-2026 at 6:00 am

2025 Design IP Sub Categories Market Share Pie Chart

While semiconductor design intellectual property (IP) is a $9.45 billion market, it acts as the absolute architectural bottleneck for the entire global semiconductor value chain. The choices made at the IP layer today dictate the cost, power, and security of a downstream technology economy rapidly marching toward a trillion… Read More


Webinar: Securing Software-Defined Vehicles with an Arm-Based Root of Trust

Webinar: Securing Software-Defined Vehicles with an Arm-Based Root of Trust
by Admin on 09-03-2026 at 1:43 am

As the automotive industry transitions to software-defined vehicles, security must evolve from a collection of isolated protections into a trusted foundation for the entire vehicle. Over-the-air updates, centralized compute architectures, vehicle connectivity, and increasingly autonomous functions are placing unprecedented… Read More


CEO Interview with Phillip Stanley-Marbell of Signaloid

CEO Interview with Phillip Stanley-Marbell of Signaloid
by Daniel Nenni on 08-28-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Phillip Stanley-Marbell is the founder and CEO of Signaloid. Up until September 2025, he was a full Professor (Chair of Physical Computation) in the Electrical Engineering Division of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he led the Physical Computation Laboratory. He completed his PhD at Carnegie… Read More


Security by Design: Arteris Expands Its Partnership with Arm

Security by Design: Arteris Expands Its Partnership with Arm
by Daniel Nenni on 07-28-2026 at 6:00 am

Arm Arteris Cycuity Announcement 071026

Arteris has expanded its partnership with Arm to deploy Cycuity Radix hardware security assurance technology across additional next-generation Arm central processing unit (CPU) programs. The expansion follows five years of collaboration and successful use of Cycuity Radix on select Arm CPU designs, and it moves hardware… Read More


When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives

When a Platform Provider Becomes a Competitor: Why Arm’s Silicon Strategy Changes the Incentives
by Admin on 04-12-2026 at 12:00 pm

RISC V Now Andes Conference

Marc Evans, Director of Business Development & Marketing, Andes Technology USA

I work at a RISC-V IP company, and I genuinely root for Arm — probably more than most people in my position would admit. Not because I’m confused about who competes with whom, but because Arm’s best move for their shareholders is also… Read More


Arteris Highlights a Path to Scalable Multi-Die Systems at the Chiplet Summit

Arteris Highlights a Path to Scalable Multi-Die Systems at the Chiplet Summit
by Mike Gianfagna on 03-23-2026 at 6:00 am

Arteris Highlights a Path to Scalable Multi Die Systems at the Chiplet Summit

At the recent Chiplet Summit, presentations, discussions and general participation could be broken down into a few broad categories. There were presentations of actual chiplet designs, either as building blocks or end products. There were presentations regarding design tools and methodologies to support and accelerate … Read More


Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement
by Mark Webb on 03-11-2026 at 8:00 am

Intel Foundry How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

How do you get a shortage while not growing???

Intel Announced earnings in January. Then David Zinsner presented updates on business this week. David is open when talking and always shares 2-3 things he probably should not share. Often he shares things some of us know, but we cannot present because it is not public. Then he makes it… Read More


Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions CHERI Alliance

Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions CHERI Alliance
by Daniel Nenni on 03-09-2026 at 8:00 am

CHERI Alliance Overview 2026

The CHERI Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the global adoption of CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), a technology designed to improve computer security at the hardware level. Established as an independent entity, the Alliance brings together industry leaders, researchers,… Read More


Keynote: On-Package Chiplet Innovations with UCIe

Keynote: On-Package Chiplet Innovations with UCIe
by Daniel Nenni on 03-08-2026 at 4:00 pm

Chiplet Summit Keynote UCIe 2026

In the rapidly evolving landscape of semiconductor technology, the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) emerges as a groundbreaking open standard designed to revolutionize on-package chiplet integrations. Presented by Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Chair of the UCIe Consortium and Intel Senior Fellow, at the ChipletRead More


Two Open RISC-V Projects Chart Divergent Paths to High Performance

Two Open RISC-V Projects Chart Divergent Paths to High Performance
by Jonah McLeod on 02-16-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Up to now the RISC-V community has been developing open-source processor implementations to a stage where they can appeal to system designers looking for alternatives to proprietary Arm and x86 cores. Toward this end, two projects have emerged as particularly significant examples of where RISC-V is heading. One is Ara, a vector… Read More