As architects push toward advanced nodes and increasingly demanding workloads, modern silicon design has entered an era of unprecedented complexity. A single design respin can cost millions of dollars and delay market entry. Against this backdrop, designs must be balanced for performance, bandwidth, power efficiency, security… Read More
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2026 Outlook with Krishna Anne of Agile Analog
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I have worked in the global semiconductor industry for over 30 years, with major semiconductor companies such as Rambus, AMD and Broadcom, as well as with start-ups such as SCI Semiconductor and DataTrails. I started my career as a digital circuit designer, then moved into marketing,… Read More
Executive Interview with Koji Motomori, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development at Numem
Koji Motomori is a seasoned business leader and technologist with 30+ years of experience in semiconductors, AI, embedded systems, data centers, mobile, and memory solutions, backed by an engineering background. Over 26 years at Intel, he drove strategic growth initiatives, securing $2B+ in contracts with OEMs and partners.… Read More
Scaling AI Infrastructure with Next-Gen Interconnects
At the recent IPSoC Conference in Silicon Valley, Aparna Tarde gave a talk on the importance of Next-Gen Interconnects to scale AI infrastructure. Aparna is a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Synopsys. A synthesis of the salient points from her talk follows.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally… Read More
The Growing Importance of PVT Monitoring for Silicon Lifecycle Management
In an era defined by complex chip architectures, ever-shrinking technology nodes and very demanding applications, Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) has become a foundational strategy for optimizing performance, reliability, and efficiency across the lifespan of a semiconductor device. Central to effective SLM are Process,… Read More
Tis the Season to be kWh Wasteful!
As the world gears up for the upcoming holiday shopping season, the technology needed by online retailers to meet demands will bring with it many unintended negative byproducts: increased inefficiency, waste and pollution, to name a few. Online sales are expected to grow by 12 percent in the holiday season, on top of an already … Read More
