Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
Kamal Khan, Vice President North America Automotive/Semiconductor at Perforce. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to drive quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed across the technology lifecycle. Our global footprint spans more than 80 … Read More
In a DACtv session on July 9, 2025, Abhi Kolpekwar, Vice-President & General Manager at Siemens EDA, illuminated the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing the escalating challenges of semiconductor design verification. The presentation underscored the limitations of traditional methods… Read More
Matthew Addley is an Industry Strategist at Infor, specializing in the global manufacturing sector. With over 30 years of experience in driving business transformation through technology, he aligns industry needs with Infor’s product strategy through thought leadership, customer engagement, and market insight. Beginning… Read More
The semiconductor industry is undergoing an unprecedented inflection—not in its technology, but in its very structure. This transformation is happening at a time of phenomenal growth, presenting both opportunity and crisis. The ingredient most critical to meeting the growth demands, but which also poses the greatest risk,… Read More
We are in the semiconductor market phase where everybody disagrees on what is going on. The market is up; the market is down. Mobile phones are up…. oh no, now they are down. The PC market is up—oh no, we need to wait until we can get an AI PC. The inflation is high—the consumer is not buying.
For us in the industry, the 13-week financial … Read More
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am Toshio Nakama, the founder and CEO of S2C and a strong advocate of FPGA accelerated ASIC/SoC design methodology. I first started my career at Altera as an FAE and served in technical and sales management roles at Aptix Corporation. I co-founded S2C in Silicon Valley in 2003 … Read More
Mr. Venkata Sudhakar Simhadri is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track-record in the semiconductor industry. He was the Founder, President & CEO of Gigacom Semiconductor LLC & Founder / Director of Gigacom India (Both the Companies acquired by MosChip) and the driving force behind establishing IP licensing and … Read More
In today’s rapidly evolving semiconductor industry, the demand for high-quality and reliable semiconductors at a reasonable cost is increasing. This is why world-class yield management has become more and more important for fabless semiconductor companies and IDMs.
We always warn clients that even in the best of times, Joint Ventures (JVs) in China always end in tears. And we are far from the best of times right now. There is a major example of this playing out right now with Arm China.
Arm’s China JV is, to put it simply, a bit of a mess. The Board has fired the CEO, but he has refused to leave. And owing… Read More
Having spent the last 30 years in semiconductor manufacturing, eight years of this living and working in Asia, it is both exciting and unsettling to see renewed political interest in the revitalization of this industry in the United States. Gone are the days of ‘It doesn’t make any difference whether a country makes computer chips… Read More
