Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined by product manager Valentin Boyer, walked through how the company is bringing AI directly into… Read More
New Audio SoCs Combine Bluetooth HDT with Dual-RF TechnologyCeva and Actions Technology have expanded their longstanding…Read More
Mach42 Delivers a Different Take on AI in the Design Flow at DAC 2026I believe DAC 2026 will be remembered as…Read More
The AI Genie Is Out of the Bottle and Won’t Go BackThis week, Meta became the fourth major AI…Read MoreTemperature Does Not Only Age Hardware — It Moves the System
Temperature is often treated as a reliability clock.
Increase the temperature, accelerate the failure mechanism, and estimate the equivalent field life.
That approach can be useful—but only when the dominant failure mechanism is known, its thermal activation behavior is understood, and the same mechanism remains active … Read More
Siemens and NVIDIA tout Agentic AI
Siemens has EDA tools and flows, NVIDIA has AI infrastructure, so what happens when these two companies collaborate? I’m at DAC 2026 and all the buzz this year is Agentic AI, so an came out on Sunday evening about how semiconductor and PCB design flows are being improved by this teamwork. Amit Gupta from Siemens and Timothy Costa from… Read More
Agentrys Launches Agentic Design Automation at DAC 2026
There were many new agentic design flows introduced at DAC this year. Some from mainstream providers and others from new startups. The increased level of activity around this technology was good to see. Most of the approaches presented at the conference were targeting specific parts of the flow. Verification and debug were popular… Read More
NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA
NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers connect reasoning… Read More
Synopsys and Intel Foundry Enable System-Level Design on Intel 14A
Synopsys and Intel Foundry are expanding their collaboration to accelerate customer adoption of Intel 14A, connecting advanced process technology with production-ready electronic design automation, silicon intellectual property, multiphysics analysis, and multi-die integration. Announced at the 2026 DAC Chips to … Read More
DAC 2026: How Undo Makes AI for Chip Design Work Better
DAC was abuzz this year with new AI-fueled approaches to chip design and debug. New tools powered by deeply trained models opened substantial possibilities to deliver higher quality designs much faster, potentially with less resources. Every new technology has its risks. For AI-driven chip design some of those risks center … Read More
ChipAgent Raises $134Million and Why it Matters
In my 45 years experience in the semiconductor industry, 43 of that in EDA and IP, I have never seen such a meteoric rise of an EDA company. I do remember money being raised for EDA in the early days but never have I seen such a customer success in such a short amount of time.
I first met ChipAgents at DVCon Silicon Valley in 2025. It was an … Read More
CEO Interview with Brendan Emery of iQ Sense
Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories.
Together with Co-Founder and CTO Madhu Jambunathan,… Read More
CEO Interview with David Reeder from Entegris
David Reeder became president and CEO of Entegris in 2025, with more than 20 years of semiconductor expertise across IDMs, fabless, foundry, systems, and component companies. Most recently, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer at Chewy where he successfully oversaw all financial functions. Prior to that, Dave was Chief Financial… Read More


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