VSORA’s Sandra Rivera on the Inference Era: Demand Is Real, But Not Everyone Survives

VSORA’s Sandra Rivera on the Inference Era: Demand Is Real, But Not Everyone Survives
by Lauro Rizzatti on 10-13-2026 at 8:00 am

Sandra Rivera SemiWiki

Sandra Rivera, Chair of VSORA, joined Bloomberg’s The Close in July for an interview on the current state of AI. What follows is a summary of that conversation.

When a Silicon Valley veteran who once ran Intel’s Data Center and AI Group, and now chairs a French inference-chip challenger, sits down with a tech journalist from Bloomberg,… Read More


Intel’s Open Software Blueprint: Why Production AI Needs More Than GPUs

Intel’s Open Software Blueprint: Why Production AI Needs More Than GPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 10-13-2026 at 6:00 am

Open software unites chips and AI

Intel’s strategic argument about enterprise AI is that the value of a model depends on the system that surrounds it. In an article by executives Bill Pearson and Anil Nanduri, the company positions open software as the connective tissue linking CPUs, GPUs, data, and business applications. The message is straightforward: accelerator… Read More


The Pivotal Moments That Gave Rise to Silicon Valley

The Pivotal Moments That Gave Rise to Silicon Valley
by Admin on 09-30-2026 at 10:00 am

IMAGE 1 Robert Noyce with microscope

The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry

by Sunil Mehta

When people tell the story of how Silicon Valley came into being, they usually begin with a familiar sequence of events.

The transistor was invented at Bell Labs. William Shockley… Read More


Why ASML Is Racing to Build 110 EUV Machines

Why ASML Is Racing to Build 110 EUV Machines
by Daniel Nenni on 09-23-2026 at 6:00 am

Why ASML Is Racing to Build 110 EUV Machines

ASML is exploring how to produce more than 110 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in 2028, reflecting the extraordinary investment flowing into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment company expects to manufacture at least 80 EUV systems in 2027 and is considering another production… Read More


TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity to Double by 2028—and Rivals Will Still Win Orders

TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity to Double by 2028—and Rivals Will Still Win Orders
by Daniel Nenni on 09-18-2026 at 8:00 am

TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity to Double by 2028—and Rivals Will Still Win Orders

TSMC reportedly plans to double its Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate capacity from approximately 130,000 300mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2026 to 260,000 by 2028. The estimate is not formal company guidance and should be treated as a supply-chain projection. Nevertheless, the direction is consistent with TSMC’s… Read More


Intel 18A-P Pushes RibbonFET and Backside Power Beyond the First Generation

Intel 18A-P Pushes RibbonFET and Backside Power Beyond the First Generation
by Daniel Nenni on 09-02-2026 at 10:00 am

Intel 18A P Extends Intel 18A with Significant Power and Performance Gains

Intel Foundry has a blog on LinkedIn that is worth a look. The blogs are by trusted Intel Foundry technical experts and are filled with content. I will cherry pick write a bit about them but be sure and subscribe to this, absolutely.

Intel 18A-P is not a new process node in the conventional sense. It is a performance-enhanced derivative… Read More


Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects

Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects
by Daniel Nenni on 08-31-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel’s 14A Is Winning the Race Against Defects

Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process is showing unusually strong early progress, with defect density falling faster than the company expected. The improvement gives Intel a technical boost as it attempts to restore confidence in its manufacturing operation, win foundry customers and demonstrate that years… 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


Intel Diamond Rapids: Building Xeon Up, Out, and Through Silicon

Intel Diamond Rapids: Building Xeon Up, Out, and Through Silicon
by Admin on 08-26-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel Diamond Rapids Hot Chips 2026

Akhilesh Kumar & Krishnakanth Sistla, Intel

Diamond Rapids is Intel’s next-generation Xeon processor, designed around the proposition that hyperscale performance increasingly depends on moving, processing, and protecting data as efficiently as executing instructions. The architecture replaces the conventional… Read More


Intel Wildcat Lake: Right-Sizing Silicon Without Sinking Performance

Intel Wildcat Lake: Right-Sizing Silicon Without Sinking Performance
by Admin on 08-25-2026 at 2:00 pm

Intel Wildcat Hot Chips 2026

Lance Hacking, Intel

Intel Core Series 3, code-named Wildcat Lake, is a mainstream client system-on-chip derived from the Panther Lake-based Core Ultra Series 3 architecture. Its design objective is not maximum feature density, but broad deployment of current-generation CPU, graphics, AI, memory, security, and connectivity… Read More