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Lonergan Partners recently released its annual compilation of companies, people and insights: The Silicon Valley 150. 2021 was an incredible year for tech, but just about everything in Silicon Valley seemed to set records, regardless of the industry: Rev­enues: up 25% from last year’s rank­ing, to $1.56 Tril­lion - a new high Net income: up 42% from last year’s rank­ing, to $342 Bil­lion - also a record high Mar­ket cap: up 8% from March 31 of last year, to $10.6 Tril­lion, despite the head­quar­ters moves of new­ly Texas-based Tes­la, Ora­cle, and HPE, as well as the down­ward pres­sure on stocks from recent glob­al eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal events — this is a record high for the LSV150 There were also an incredible 17 newly public companies. While eight companies moved their Read More

Submitted by Cadence Embracing diversity and fostering inclusion are key tenets of Cadence’s One-Team culture. Women at Cadence have played a special role in our 33-year history to shape the future of technology and have been supported strongly by management. Over the last several years, our President, Anirudh Devgan, sponsors our Women in Technology group and our Chief Revenue Officer, Neil Zaman, sponsors our Women of Worldwide Field Operations group. These initiatives, along with our over-arching Women@Cadence program, help provide support, mentorship, networking, and other career opportunities for women across different roles and locations. Through these efforts, many of our Read More

By Azita Yazdani, P.E. | Founder and CEO, Exergy Systems, Inc. In recent months, we saw much talk about the demand for chips and the chip shortages experienced due to COVID-19 by the various segments such as the automotive industry. The demand is more significant than ever and expects to grow further due to new AI/IoT and other trends, requiring pressures on the semiconductor industry to produce more chips for various new services and devices. Furthermore, this translates to exponential growth in more production pressures on existing fabs and their capacities and capabilities. Many companies are planning new production capacity Read More

By Mariya Braylovska | R&D Director, Custom Design Manufacturing Group, Synopsys Woman engineers are no big deal. Does this shock you? To understand my perspective, historical grounding in Soviet history will help. I was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union. Over 100 years ago, Imperial Russia had a largely rural and illiterate society. After the Russian revolution in the early 20th century, only 2% of engineers were women. My grandmother was one of those women. Then, by the late 1960s, at least 41% of engineers were women. My mother was one of those women. Read More

By Julie Lata | Program Manager for Global Community Affairs, Applied Materials | Oct 11, 2021 October 11 was International Day of the Girl. A day to celebrate the contributions of girls around the world and to look introspectively at what we can each do to better support girls in their quests for greatness. At Applied Materials, we are entering our fourth year of the Applied Materials Foundation’s Generation GirlTM initiative, a U.S. program focused on inspiring girls to pursue their dreams and equipping them with the academic and socioemotional support they need to succeed. A unique component of this work is Read More

By Tamara Heath-Underbrink | Vice President of Americas Regional Sales and Distribution, Infineon Technologies Tamara Heath-Underbrink is currently a Vice President of Americas at Infineon Technologies, a top 10 global semiconductor company. Her career journey has not been easy, with challenges along the way, but the story is  enlightening for young professional seeking a career in the semiconductor industry. She encourages young women, as well as men, who plan to work in STEAM to always accept a challenge and work for a company that makes a difference to tomorrow’s generation. How it all started Tamara’s story goes back to her Read More

IP Traceability whitepaper overview: To be trusted by applications in the cloud, data generated by IoT devices needs to be tagged by identifiers tracking the device and the IP that generated this data. Data that can be traced back to the device that created it cannot be trusted. Given the fragmentation of the IoT industry, it is imperative for the actors in the supply chain to adopt the initiatives standardizing the identity of devices and their blocks of IP. The document outlines the evolution in the technologies to bind a block of IP with a unique identifier. It describes the Read More