Episodes
Dan is joined by Dr. Rodney Pelzel, he has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with deep expertise in semiconductor materials engineering and the epitaxial growth of compound semiconductors. Dr. Pelzel joined IQE as a Production Engineer in 2000 and is now head of R&D and is tasked with creating unique… Read More
Published 04/26/24
Published 04/26/24
Dan is joined by Robert Ruiz, product management director responsible for strategy and business growth of several verification products at Synopsys. Robert has held various marketing and technical positions for leading functional verification and test automation products at various companies including Synopsys, Novas… Read More
Published 04/19/24
Dan is joined by Bill DeVries, Vice President of Industry Transformation and Customer Success at Dassault Systémes. Bill is responsible for revenue growth and driving the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Additionally, Bill is the Senior Director of Academic and Education in North America, where he leads the 3DEXPERIENCE EDU… Read More
Published 04/17/24
Dan is joined by Randy Caplan, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with nearly 500 customers spanning almost every major market segment. Randy provides some background… Read More
Published 04/12/24
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines. Wally is a lot of things, CEO of Cornami, board member, advisor to many and friend to all. In this session, he is the Executive Sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data Report. Wally reviews the Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released for Q4 2023. Growth continues to be… Read More
Published 04/08/24
Dan is joined by Vikas Gupta, senior director of product management at GlobalFoundries focused on Silicon Photonics and ancillary technologies. Vikas has close to 30 years of semiconductor experience with TI, Xilinx, AMD, GlobalFoundries, POET Technologies, and back to GlobalFoundries. Vikas discusses the growing demands… Read More
Published 04/05/24
Dan is joined by Noam Brousard, who has over 20 years of diverse technology experience, spanning systems engineering, software development and hardware design. He currently serves as the vice president of Solutions Engineering at proteanTecs, where he helps customers implement on-chip monitoring solutions to address their… Read More
Published 03/29/24
Dan is joined by Frank Schirrmeister, vice president of solutions and business development at Arteris. He leads activities in the industry verticals including automotive and technology horizontals like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and safety. Before Arteris, Frank held senior leadership positions at Cadence… Read More
Published 03/22/24
Dan is joined by Matt Gutierrez. Matt joined Synopsys in 2000 and is currently Sr. Director of Marketing for Processor & Security IP and Tools. His current responsibilities include the worldwide marketing of ARC Processors and Subsystems, Security IP, and tools for the development of application-specific instruction … Read More
Published 03/15/24
Dan is joined by Mike O’Brien. Mike was recently the vice president of aerospace and government at Synopsys, He has 40 years of experience in the semiconductor, software and computer industries. In his 27 years in EDA and IP at Synopsys and Cadence, Mike helped build new lines of business including outsourced design services,… Read More
Published 03/08/24
Dan is joined by Jan Pantzar vice president of sales and marketing at VSORA, a provider of high-performance generative AI and ADAS chip solutions based in France. Mr. Pantzar gained extensive experience in the semiconductor, IP and software industries through building and managing organizations around the globe. Previous … Read More
Published 03/01/24
Dan is joined by Dr. Christophe Maleville, chief technology officer of Soitec’s Innovation. He joined Soitec in 1993 and was a driving force behind the company’s joint research activities with CEA-Leti. For several years, he led new SOI process development, oversaw SOI technology transfer from R&D to production and managed… Read More
Published 02/23/24
Dan is joined by Dr. Lawrence Pileggi, Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Larry is the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award recipient for distinguished contributions to Electronic System Design. His pioneering contributions include circuit simulation and optimization… Read More
Published 02/16/24
Dan is joined by Nick Ilyadis, vice president of product planning at Achronix. Prior to Achronix, Nick was vice president of portfolio and technology strategy at Marvell Semiconductor and vice president and group CTO at Broadcom. Nick has also held many engineering roles during his career, starting as a chip designer and moving… Read More
Published 02/09/24
Dan is joined by Tony Chan Carusone, Chief Technology Officer of Alphawave Semi. Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001 and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of the world’s leading… Read More
Published 02/02/24
Dan is joined by Paul Fischer. Paul is the director of Chip Mesoscale Processing in Intel’s Components Research. He and his team are currently working on Gallium Nitride for energy efficient power delivery and RF communications, and technologies for heterogeneous monolithic integration. Paul discusses the innovations… Read More
Published 01/26/24
Dan is joined by Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer at Arteris. He brings more than two decades of technology-based strategy, marketing and growth acceleration. Prior to joining Arteris, he served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Cadence, and through his leadership, the company’s… Read More
Published 01/19/24
Dan is joined by Randy Fish, Director of Product Line Management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) family at Synopsys. Randy has over 30 years of experience in the EDA, IP and semiconductor industries. In this broad view of SLM, Randy explains what is special about monitoring and optimizing embedded memories. It turns… Read More
Published 01/12/24
Dan is joined by Wally Rhines for a discussion of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the EDA companies in the world and compile it by product category and region where the sales occurred. It’s the most reliable data … Read More
Published 01/08/24
Dan is joined by 2023 recipient of the J.J. Ebers award, Dr. Mukta Farooq. This is the highest technical award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Mukta is the first woman to earn this prestigious award. Throughout her career Dr. Farooq has been a trailblazer. She was the first female to earn a Bachelors of Science in Metallurgical… Read More
Published 01/05/24
Dan is joined by podcast producer and collaborator Mike Gianfagna for Semiconductor Insiders episode 200. Dan and Mike look over the past two years (and 200 podcasts) to develop a top ten list of changes and innovation in the semiconductor industry. There is a lot of back-story detail on each topic in this far-reaching discussion.… Read More
Published 12/29/23
Dan is joined by Scott Best, technical director at Rambus. His research areas are memory architectures, 3D packaging, and security processors. Scott joined Rambus in 1998 and has served in many and varied technical roles. He has become one of the most prolific inventors in the company’s history. Over the course of his career at … Read More
Published 12/22/23
Dan is joined by Ritesh Jain. Ritesh is the senior vice president of engineering and operations for Lightmatter. Prior to joining Lightmatter, Ritesh was a vice president in Intel’s Data Center and AI group where he directed the hardware development across silicon packaging, power integrity, signal integrity, mechanical &… Read More
Published 12/15/23
Dan is joined by Jack Kang of SiFive. As a member of the founding team at SiFive, Jack oversees the Business Development, Customer Experience, and Corporate Marketing groups. He is responsible for strategic business initiatives and partnerships, technical pre-sales activities and post-sales support, and corporate messaging… Read More
Published 12/08/23