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 | Dec 8, 2025 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this mega-catchup recap episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about some of the top headlines from September through November of 2025. Topics that...
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...
