This article is an editorial synthesis of a fireside chat between Tom Caulfield, Executive Chairman of GlobalFoundries, and John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions that took place on December 3rd 2025, during the PDF Solutions Users Conference. John Kibarian led the conversation to get Tom Caulfield’s perspectives on leadership… Read More
When most people hear the term PDF, they immediately think of a PDF file, a universal, platform-independent way to share electronic documents.
There is, however, another PDF that many outside the semiconductor industry may not be familiar with. And this PDF actually predates the PDF file format. It is short for PDF Solutions, … Read More
The semiconductor industry is experiencing accelerated innovation; demand has never been higher, complexity never greater, and the opportunities never more exciting. But realizing this potential requires partnerships, shared secure scalable solutions, and a collective commitment to pushing boundaries.
In this two-day… Read More
Discover how proteanTecs is transforming health and performance monitoring across the semiconductor lifecycle to meet the growing demands of AI and Next-Gen SoCs.
Stop by DAC booth #1616 to experience our latest technologies in action, including interactive live demos and explore our full suite of solutions — designed to boost… Read More
PDF Solutions, Inc. will host an AI Executive Conference Thursday, December 12, in San Francisco featuring keynotes, presentations, panels and demonstrations offering insights into the power of AI to transform semiconductor design and manufacturing. The conference immediately follows the 70th Annual IEEE International… Read More
Dan is joined by John Kibarian, president, chief executive officer and co-founder of PDF Solutions. He has served as president since 1991 and CEO since 2000.
John explains the evolution of PDF Solutions from its beginnings in 1992 to the present day. John describes moving from TCAD tools for design teams to a yield optimization … Read More
For 20 years PDF Solutions have been working with fabs on yield enhancement. Today, they announced their Exensio Platform for big data manufacturing environments. They haven’t really been keeping it a secret and have been talking about it at events since late last year, but it has basically been in stealth mode for the last… Read More
At IEDM last week Coventor hosted a panel session as they do each year. The theme this year was surviving variation. The panel was hosted by someone whose name is familiar round here, Dan Nenni. The panel that Coventor had put together had people from all sorts of different slots in the design/supply chain for semiconductor. Unfortunately… Read More
I’m at the GSA Silicon Summit today, at the computer history museum. The first panel session this morning was about future process technology. It was moderated by Joe Sawicki of Mentor with a panel consisting of Rob Aitken from ARM, Paul Farrar of G450C, Peter Huang of TSMC, John Kibarian of PDF Solutions and someone from Applied… Read More
