Dr. Sunghyun Park earned his B.S. from KAIST and his Ph.D. from MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). He built his career across Intel, Samsung Research, and SpaceX as a semiconductor design engineer, before serving as Vice President at Morgan Stanley in New York — a rare combination of… Read More
Daniel is joined by Mark Ren, founder and CEO of Agentrys. Mark has 26 years of EDA and AI R&D experience spanning IBM Research and NVIDIA Research, driving design automation innovations that power modern chip design. He received the IBM Corporate Award for contributions to the design closure for high-performance microprocessors.… Read More
The reported move of Amit Gupta, Jeff Dyck, and Ryan Silk from Siemens EDA to Synopsys matters because this is more than a routine transfer of experienced executives and engineers. Together, the three represent a concentrated body of expertise in applying artificial intelligence to semiconductor design—one of the most strategically… Read More
Artificial intelligence performance is increasingly constrained by memory rather than arithmetic throughput. Scaling laws show that model quality improves when parameter count, training data, and compute grow together, but this balance fails when processors cannot obtain operands quickly enough. Contemporary accelerators… Read More
As artificial intelligence systems become larger and more demanding, memory is becoming one of the most important constraints in server design. Modern AI workloads do not only require powerful GPUs and accelerators; they also require enormous amounts of data to move quickly and efficiently between memory and compute engines.… Read More
Purple was in fashion at the 2026 Design Automation Conference, where Synopsys reinforced its position at the forefront of AI-powered engineering. Under the conference’s “Chips to Systems” theme, the company showcased intelligent, end-to-end technologies designed to help the semiconductor industry manage unprecedented… Read More
Software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are connected computing platforms that rely on advanced processors, artificial intelligence (AI), over the air (OTA) software updates, cloud services, and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. Every electronic … Read More
I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design.
From my perspective, Defacto’s technology is designed to improve productivity and design quality by enabling … Read More
In a keynote at the 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) on July 8, 2025, William Chappell, Vice President of Mission Systems at Microsoft, reflected on the intertwined evolution of AI and semiconductor design. Drawing from his DARPA experience, Chappell traced AI’s progression from 2016 onward, highlighting its… Read More
The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the data center landscape, pushing the boundaries of compute, connectivity, and memory technologies. The exponential growth in AI workloads—training large language models (LLMs), deploying real-time inference, and scaling distributed applications—has … Read More
