by Karl Freund | Feb 10, 2026 | In the News
The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...
by Karl Freund | Jul 11, 2025 | In the News
While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...
by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News
The US Semiconductor industry desperately needs to rebuild the country’s ability to produce the advanced chips that are the cornerstone of AI and every electronic device you can imagine. Most of those chips are built today in Taiwan by TSMC. Merely the thought of any...
by Karl Freund | Mar 14, 2025 | In the News
This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...
by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2025 | Video
Designing chips is hard, but validating them can be harder still. Synopsys has upgraded their Hardware-Assisted Validation platforms, and we spoke with Frank Schirrmeister Executive Director, Strategic Programs, System Solutions at Synopsys to understand what was...
