Playing to Your Company’s Strength to be Strategic, Differentiated, Competitive
Michiel Ligthart | President and COO | Verific Design Automation Conventional career advice favors “playing to your strength,” guidance executives at Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Tesla may have missed. Instead, they are charging ahead in the chip development business, a new market segment for all of them. What Read More
Industry’s first debut of PUF-USIM chip
Written by Teddy Kyung Lee | CSO | ICTK Holdings 1. Introduction Recently the world-first product of PUF-USIM card is commercially debuted by the telecom giant, LG Uplus from Korea, and the security solution company, ICTK Holdings [1] (Figure 1). The PUF-USIM is the perfect combination of two technologies Read More
Edge AI Computing Advancements Driving Autonomous Vehicle Potential
Written by Manouchehr Rafie, Ph.D. | CEO | Gryfalcon Large numbers of sensors, massive amounts of data, ever-increasing computing power, real-time operation and security concerns required for autonomous vehicles are driving the core of computation from the cloud to the edge of the network. Autonomous vehicles are constantly sensing and Read More
Autonomous Vehicles and AI Chip Innovation
Written by Manouchehr Rafie, Ph.D. | CEO | Gryfalcon Autonomous Vehicles and AI Chip Innovation Convergence of Edge Computing, Machine Vision and 5G-Connected Vehicles Today’s societies are becoming ever more multimedia-centric, data-dependent, and automated. Autonomous systems are hitting our roads, oceans, and air space. Automation, analysis, and intelligence are moving Read More
A Systematic Approach to Verification & Validation Using Hardware-Assisted Verification
Jean-Marie Brunet | Senior Director of Marketing, Product Management and Product Engineering | Siemens EDA A Systematic Approach to Verification and Validation Using Hardware-Assisted Verification Success in the semiconductor industry today is defined by software performance. Meeting hardware (IC) specs is now only one of four mandatory criteria to meet the Read More
On Deck for the Semiconductor Industry: Managing the Conflicts of Global Disruption vs Time To Market
Written by Srini Chinamilli | CEO | Tessolve On Deck for the Semiconductor Industry: Managing the Conflicts of Global Disruption vs Time To Market The Covid-19 pandemic caused havoc with the world economy as it ravaged the world population. While the semiconductor industry survived reasonably well, the industry was not Read More
An Explosion of Design through the Open-Source Silicon Success
Written by Lucio Lanza | Managing Partner | Lanza techVentures Many industry pundits contend the Internet of Things (IoT) has all the makings of becoming the next driver of semiconductor industry growth fueled by trillions (yes, trillions!) of smart, connected sensors. These sensors will be able to analyze data at Read More
CBDC Wallets and the Security Requirements
Written by Teddy Kyung Lee | CTO | ICTK 1. CBDC is different from Cryptocurrency CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) is a digital currency issued and controlled by Central bank. It is “paperless” fiat money in digital form. The CBDC is not the same as Cryptocurrency. They are both digital currencies, but not Read More
New etch resistant coating, cleaning and refurbishment services
Written by Paul Cuddyer | Director of Sales | Technetics | paul.cuddyer@technetics.com Abstract Technetics Group’s novel thin film coatings provide a fully dense, non-porous, etch resistant uniform coating that can be used to extend the life of process chamber components, reduce particle levels within a chamber, or “cap and seal” Electrostatic Read More
Market Trends and Hardware Assisted Verification
Executive Interview with Ravi Subramanian, SVP & GM of the IC Verification Solutions, Siemens EDA In this interview with Ravi Subramanian, he identifies the latest semiconductor trends, as well as what’s driving those trends, how they are affecting chip design and functional verification and why he is bullish on hardware-assisted Read More
CEO Interview – Gopi Sirineni, Axiado Corporation
Gopi Sirineni | CEO | Axiado Corporation Gopi Sirineni is the thrill-seeking CEO of Axiado, an A.I.-driven cybersecurity processor company headquartered in Silicon Valley. As evidenced by his successful career in high tech, Sirineni is constantly seeking innovation and chasing to forge new markets. He can grow ambitious projects into successes Read More
CEO Interview – Scott White, PragmatIC Semiconductor
Scott White | CEO | PragmatIC Semiconductor Scott White, CEO at PragmatIC Semiconductor, has often been referred to as a serial entrepreneur. Not surprising really since in addition to PragmatIC, a pioneering flexible electronics company headquartered in Cambridge, UK, he has built and sold five other technology businesses, living and Read More
CEO Interview – Roy Jewell, Palma Ceia
Roy Jewell | Founder and CEO | Palma Ceia SemiDesign Life often comes full circle. The same can be said of careers. And that’s been the case for Roy Jewell, founder and CEO of Palma Ceia SemiDesign, an up-and-coming startup to watch. He began his professional life at one of Read More
CEO Interview – Amin Shokrollahi, Kandou
Amin Shokrollahi | Founder and CEO | Kandou Amin Shokrollahi is CEO and founder of Kandou from Lausanne, Switzerland, one of our newest members and a company developing high-speed, energy efficient, chip-to-chip link solutions. In other words, Kandou keeps consumers connected. A featured speaker at the recent GSA Entrepreneurial Conference, Read More
CEO Interviews – Tim Ramsdale, Agile Analog
Third-party analog IP: why the market functions poorly for customers and suppliers – and how to fix it Tim Ramsdale | CEO | Agile Analog GSA Forum has been in virtual conversation with Tim Ramsdale, CEO of Agile Analog, a Cambridge, UK-based supplier of analog IP which Read More
CEO Interviews – Pim Tuyls, Intrinsic ID
Pim Tuyls | CEO and Founder | Intrinsic ID Summary With rise of the internet of things (IoT), IoT-related security issues have also risen. Several high-profile breaches of IoT devices has made it clear that security needs to be embedded in chip hardware, protecting each endpoint. To make Read More
CEO Interviews – Dr. Ron Black, Imagination Technologies
Dr. Ron Black CEO, Imagination Technologies You’ve been with Imagination for just over three months, what is your vision for Imagination going forward? Imagination is an iconic company that led the way in low-power, high-performance graphics and parlayed a great customer experience in that area into a broader IP supplier Read More
CEO Interview – Paul Boudre, Chief Executive Officer, Soitec
Why does Soitec have a unique position in the industry? Over the last few years, Soitec has built an organization capable of elevating itself in the value chain, learning what the end customer road map is and working with our customers’ customers to enable options and technical solutions. We are Read More
CEO Interview – Russ Garcia, CEO of Menlo Micro
Where did the idea of the Digital Micro Switch technology come from? Our lineage of innovation & entrepreneurship starts with the "Wizard of Menlo Park" himself, Thomas A. Edison. Born out of a decade-long effort at General Electric's Global Research Center, Menlo Micro is bringing to the market a series Read More
CEO Interview – Dr. Naveen Rao, Nervana Systems
Dr. Naveen Rao CEO & Co-founder, Nervana Systems I’d like to start with an introduction of yourself and your educational and professional background. I’ve been thinking about artificial intelligence for a long time. I used to read a lot of Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. It worked out in my favor that Read More
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2021 Editorial Calendar
| Q1 2021 | Q2 2021 | Q3 2021 | Q4 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Deadline | December 25, 2020 | March 26 | June 26 | September 25 |
| Article Deadline | January 22 | April 23 | July 23 | October 22 |
| Publication | February 5 | May 7 | August 6 | November 5 |