Welcome to the 33rd iteration of the IEEE Hot Interconnects symposium. HotI’2026 will be held virtually.
2026 Conference Theme
Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Scale-Across: Do they really differ?
Complex high-capacity training and disaggregated inference workloads are being scaled-across multiple sites, blurring the lines between… Read More
Stephen Russell: Senior Technical Fellow, TechInsights
Every April, Earth Day prompts a flurry of corporate sustainability pledges and green-tinted press releases. But for the semiconductor industry in 2026, the conversation has moved well past pledges. Carbon accountability is now a procurement requirement, a regulatory… Read More
The expansion of semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, particularly with TSMC’s multi-fab campus in Phoenix, Arizona, has created a significant need for skilled technical workers. To meet this demand, TSMC has partnered with educational institutions, including Grand Canyon University (GCU), to launch… Read More
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is a premier event that focuses on the design and automation of electronic systems. It is an annual conference that has been held since 1964, making it one of the longest-running and most established events in the field of electronic design automation (EDA).
DAC offers outstanding training,… Read More
Dan is joined by Priyank Shukla of Synopsys and Kent Lusted of Intel.
Priyank Shukla is a Sr. Staff Product Manager for the Synopsys High-Speed SerDes IP portfolio. He has broad experience in analog, mixed-signal design with strong focus on high performance compute, mobile and automotive SoCs.
Kent Lusted is a Principal Engineer… Read More
Dan is joined by Rob Oshana, general chair of this year’s DAC. Rob is vice president of software engineering R&D for the Edge Processing business line at NXP. He serves on multiple industry advisory boards and is a recognized international speaker. He has published numerous books and articles on software engineering… Read More
The premier verification conference and exhibition is coming up and of course Accellera plays an important role. This year DVCON will again be virtual, which is unfortunate, but I must say as a long time attendee this year’s program really stands out. In fact, there is a new addition that is worth mentioning, it’s the… Read More
I’ve written before about how the automotive industry adheres to functional safety (FS) as defined in the ISO 26262 standard, along with other SemiWiki bloggers. That standard certainly defines the What part of FS, however it doesn’t mandate how you meet the standard, what tools you should be using, file formats … Read More
We live in an age of abundant information. There is a tremendous exchange of ideas crisscrossing the world enabling new innovative type of products to pop up daily. Therefore, in this era there is a greater need to understand competitive intelligence. Corporate companies today are interested in what other competitors are brewing… Read More