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OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Why AI-Powered Chip Design Matters

Source: https://semiwiki.com/eda/synopsys/374301-openai-and-synopsys-announce-gpt-synopsys-why-ai-powered-chip-design-matters/ Wow, OpenAI and Synopsys just announced a multiyear partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized artificial intelligence model for semiconductor design. The agreement combines OpenAI’s frontier models with Synopsys’ electronic design automation software and engineering expertise. Its ambition is to help engineers develop

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Why the energy sector must plan for post-quantum cyber security now

Source: https://semiwiki.com/security/pqshield/373971-why-the-energy-sector-must-plan-for-post-quantum-cyber-security-now/ In a September 2026 World Economic Forum article, Ali El Kaafarani argues that energy companies should begin preparing their systems for post-quantum cryptography now. The reason is practical: power infrastructure lasts for decades, while replacing its security can take years. Equipment purchased today

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TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Broadcom’s View of ASICs and Ecosystems

Source: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/374145-tsmc-oip-ecosystem-forum-2026-broadcoms-view-of-asics-and-ecosystems/ I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a world-changing product to

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The Pivotal Moments That Gave Rise to Silicon Valley

Source: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/374246-the-pivotal-moments-that-gave-rise-to-silicon-valley/ The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry by Sunil Mehta 현대 반도체 산업을 형성하는 데 기여한 잘 알려지지 않은 결정과 돌파구—그리고 로버트 노이스(Robert Noyce)의 놀라운 역할 저자: 수닐 메타(

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Quantum Equivalence Checking. Innovation in Verification

Source: https://semiwiki.com/eda/372999-quantum-equivalence-checking-innovation-in-verification/ Can quantum computing have any relevance to EDA? This month’s paper suggests it might have a role someday, in accelerating one of the most fundamental of EDA algorithms: SAT. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO

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Why Advanced Chip Packaging Is Becoming a Design Problem

Source: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/374150-why-advanced-chip-packaging-is-becoming-a-design-problem/ As chipmakers put more computing power into a single system, the challenge extends beyond making individual chips faster. They must connect multiple chips, memory stacks, power supplies, and sometimes optical components in a compact package. In the 2026 TSMC OIP Forum talk “Addressing

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Siemens and TSMC push AI deeper into chip design

Source: https://semiwiki.com/eda/siemens-eda/374000-siemens-and-tsmc-push-ai-deeper-into-chip-design/ Siemens and TSMC are expanding their collaboration on semiconductor design tools, with a focus on AI assisted workflows, advanced chip packaging and support for newer manufacturing processes. Their announcement centers on an AI agent intended to find and fix design rule violations: errors

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Agentic AI Can Reach GDS. What Must It Prove Before Engineers Trust It for Tapeout?

Source: https://semiwiki.com/eda/agentrys/373853-agentic-ai-can-reach-gds-what-must-it-prove-before-engineers-trust-it-for-tapeout/ Agentic AI is beginning to move semiconductor engineering beyond copilots and isolated task automation. From Agentrys’ public material and recent discussion, its architecture points toward a broader engineering flow: Specification → RTL → verification → synthesis / physical design → PPA optimization → physical verification → sign-off-clean GDS 에이전틱 AI(

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LLM-assisted schematic test-report analysis and root-cause investigation

Source: https://semiwiki.com/artificial-intelligence/373932-llm-assisted-schematic-test-report-analysis-and-root-cause-investigation/ By Piyush Bag Intro: In this AI era, building data centers has become crucial not just for hyperscalers, but for many companies as well, as they build the infrastructure for AI. At a high level, a data center includes compute, storage, networking, and other

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Synopsys Synopsys Announces AgentEngineer Solutions and Autopilot Platform for Autonomous Engineering

Source: https://semiwiki.com/artificial-intelligence/374114-synopsys-announces-agentengineer-solutions-and-autopilot-platform-for-autonomous-engineering/ Synopsys today announced its AgentEngineerTM solutions portfolio and AutopilotTM Platform, advancing a fundamental paradigm shift in electronic design automation (EDA): moving beyond AI copilots toward autonomous engineering agents. Following a recent technical briefing with Thomas Andersen, Vice President of AI and Machine Learning at

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Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means

Source: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/373986-designing-chips-for-the-ai-era-what-tsmcs-roadmap-means/ About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of R&

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Tokens Per Watt Over Peak Performance: Retrofitting Heterogeneous Silicon for Production Inference

Source: https://semiwiki.com/artificial-intelligence/373916-tokens-per-watt-over-peak-performance-retrofitting-heterogeneous-silicon-for-production-inference/ 👉 This is Part 2 of an editorial series on the evolving economics of AI inference. If you missed Part 1, where I broke down the shift toward full-system integration, the lessons from the AI Infra Summit, and the “no forks” open-source philosophy, you can