Semiconductor Engineering

As models evolve faster than silicon cycles, chip architects must balance flexible compute, data movement, and defense-in-depth security. By Ann Mutschler. https://lnkd.in/gQAUx7mC #EdgeAI #edge #NPUs #edgesecurity Rob Fisher Imagination Technologies Eduardo Montañez Infineon Technologies George Wall Cadence Niranjan Sitapure, PhD Siemens Digital Industries Software Paul Karazuba Rambus Graham Gobieski Efficient Computer Sylvain Guilley Secure-IC Cadence Dana Neustadter Synopsys Inc

Semiconductor Engineering's 115-page eBook, Photonics Fundamentals for Electronics Engineers, explores the technologies pushing optical data movement from racks toward packages and closer to where data is processed — and what engineers need to know as that shift accelerates. By Bryon Moyer. https://lnkd.in/ghRiU78c #photonics #siliconphotonics #datacenters #optics #lasers #photonicpackaging #CPO #photonictest #semiconductor #opticalcomputing Ayar Labs Vishal C. Siemens Digital Industries Software Tom Daspit Mina Esmaeelpour Missouri University of Science and Technology Hamed Gholami Derami, Ph.D. Brewer Science Gilles Lamant Cadence Julio Marcos Keysight Technologies Julien Muller Synopsys Inc JIGESH PATEL Adam Reid Sander Roosendaal Ahsan Uddin Advantest Aftkhar A. yieldWerx Semiconductor

Multi-Agent AI Systems Must Work Like An Orchestra Without A Conductor https://lnkd.in/dXiaVMqT A mixture of expert agentic AI systems can focus on their tasks with or without a commanding general, but challenges remain in drawing boundaries between human and AI effort. Final in 3-part series. By Liz Allan. With Matt Graham, senior group director of verification software product management at Cadence; Harrison B., head of business development and strategic partnerships at ChipAgents; Alexander Petr, senior director and portfolio manager at Keysight Technologies EDA; Sathishkumar Balasubramanian, head of product for EDA AI at Siemens Digital Industries Software EDA; and Anand Thiruvengadam, executive director and head of AI product management at Synopsys Inc.  https://lnkd.in/dXiaVMqT #AgenticAI #EDA #chipdesign #semiconductor #orchestration #verification #LLMs

All 5 of Semiconductor Engineering’s September newsletters are now available, covering the latest developments across the semiconductor industry: https://lnkd.in/gBSmeftb • Systems & Design • Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials • Low Power-High Performance • Test, Measurement & Analytics • Auto, Security and AI This month’s coverage includes AI agents in chip design, multi-die assemblies at 2nm and below, AI data center power and cooling, 1kW chip validation, hardware security, physical AI, advanced packaging, photonics, and more. #semiconductor #chipdesign #semiconductormanufacturing #semiconductortest #automotivetech #cybersecurity #lowpowerdesign #HPC #photonics

As AI chips move to stacked, chiplet-based architectures, EDA vendors are reworking mature tools for cross-domain analysis, faster exploration, and agentic AI assistance. By Liz Allan. https://lnkd.in/g368dn2X #semiconductor #3DIC #EDA #chipdesign #AgenticAI #verification Vinci Hardik Kabaria Henry Sheng Synopsys Inc Nilesh Kamdar Keysight Technologies Michal Siwinski Arteris Lalitha Immaneni Intel Broadcom A.J. Tufano Venu Sanaka Qualcomm Cadence Insaf Meliane Arteris Jeff Dyck Siemens Digital Industries Software Solaiman Rahim Ph.D ChipAgents Architect Labs Dan Ganousis Badru Agarwala Rise Design Automation Ji Hwan Lee ITDA semiconductor Co., Ltd. Intel Foundry Artour Levin Microsoft Suitera LLC

AI may accelerate semiconductor design, but users still need formal proof, semantic continuity, and auditable workflows to trust automation. By Ann Mutschler. https://lnkd.in/gG_vzZaX #semiconductor #EDA #chipdesign #verification #AgenticAI Andy Nightingale Arteris Chris Mueth Keysight Technologies Ashish Darbari Axiomise Solaiman Rahim Ph.D ChipAgents Paul G. Cadence Ankur Gupta Siemens Digital Industries Software Thomas Andersen Synopsys Inc Satish Radhakrishnan, Ph.D Vinci Mo Faisal Movellus Inc.

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library https://lnkd.in/g2bB63tM #semiconductor #BEOL #interconnects #DRC #chiplets #3DIC #LLMs #EDA #neuromorphic Purdue University Anushka Mukherjee, Kang He Kaushik Roy New York University Afsara Khan Austin Rovinski Peking University Zifeng Huang, Tianyu Jia, Runsheng Wang University of Michigan Haoran Jin, Zhiheng Zhang, Barry Lyu, Kangqi Zhang University of Technology Sydney, ShanghaiTech University, Technical University of Munich Kuiye Ding, The University of Edinburgh Cristian Sestito, Themis Prodromakis Heidelberg University Johannes Schemmel

Latest: AI agents move deeper into chip design; China doubles down on AI compute and memory; chip supply chains tighten for equipment and critical materials; TSMC partners accelerate; ICs head to space; optics advances, neural super resolution, auto PQC; Purdue-UIUC workforce training and more. https://lnkd.in/grJbajDU #semiconductor #EDA #AgenticAI #chipdesign #semiconductormanufacturing Cadence Alibaba Group Imagination Technologies ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. Yangtze Memory Technologies Samsung Semiconductor GUC imec Yukai Chen Semiconductor Industry Association ASML TSMC Siemens Digital Industries Software Synopsys Inc AIChip Corporation ETH Zürich Shao-Wei Lo Carnegie Mellon University Infleqtion Cognex Corporation PicoJool Inc. Arm SEALSQ John Papapolymerou SMART Photonics Teradyne proteanTecs SUJAI SHIVAKUMAR, Ph.D. EdgeCortix Brewer Science ASM ChipAgents eMemory Qualcomm Coherent Corp. Georgia Institute of Technology Annabelle Theobald Dileep Singh Kushwaha Vidya Neerkundar Sara Congia

Specialization and orchestration are becoming more important as the role of AI agents in chip design widens, but coordination, control, and trust remain challenging. By Ed Sperling. https://lnkd.in/gB3YbJR2 #AgenticAi #chipdesign #EDA #semiconductor #AIagents #SLMs Mo Faisal Movellus Inc. William Yang Wang Matt Graham Cadence Prith Banerjee Synopsys Inc Niels Fache Keysight Technologies Ankur Gupta Siemens Digital Industries Software Saurabh Gayen Baya Systems Michal Siwinski Arteris Walden C. ( Wally ) Rhines Silvaco Inc Saurabh Gayen Baya Systems

Through better manufacturing screening, DFT for systems and fleet monitors, this major scourge on data center hardware is gradually being tamed. By Laura Peters. https://lnkd.in/gjuBAbVm #semiconductor #semiconductortest #SDE #SilentDataErrors #DFT #SDC #ATE #SilentDataCorruption Google Meta John Carulli Advantest Nilanjan Mukherjee Siemens Digital Industries Software Noam Brousard proteanTecs Chen He, Ph.D. NXP Semiconductors Intel Manu S. Jyotika Athavale Synopsys Inc Harish D Dixit, Sriram Sankar David Lerner