Podcast EP330: An Overview of DVCon U.S. 2026 with Xiaolin Chen

Daniel is joined by Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, a Senior Fellow and Chief I/O architect in the Data Platforms and Artificial Intelligence Group at Intel. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of International Academy of AI Sciences. He is a leading expert on I/O subsystem and interface… Read More

Daniel is joined by Dr. Chene Tradonsky, a physicist and the CTO and co-founder of LightSolver, where he leads the development of a proprietary physics-based computing system built on coupled laser dynamics to accelerate compute-heavy simulations and other computationally demanding workloads. Before moving into physics,… Read More

Daniel is joined by Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, the global industry association serving the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. Throughout his career, Manocha has been a champion of industry collaboration as a critical means of advancing technology for societal and economic prosperity.… Read More

Daniel is joined by Linley Gwennap, technology analyst and author of the new book “How AI Really Works: The Models, Chips, and Companies Powering a Revolution.” Linley was the long-time editor of Microprocessor Report and chaired the popular Linley Processor Conferences. Dan explores what impact AI is having on the market and… Read More

Daniel is joined by Dr. Christophe Maleville, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Executive Vice-President 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… Read More

Daniel is joined by Xiaolin Chen, Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Formal Solutions at Synopsys. She has over 20 years of experience applying formal technology in verification and partnering with customers to identify opportunities where formal methods are best suited to solve complex verification challenges.… Read More

Daniel is joined by Mark Kuemerle, Vice President of Technology, Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell. Mark is responsible for defining leading-edge ASIC offerings and architects system-level solutions. Before joining Marvell, Mark was a Fellow in Integrated Systems Architecture at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and has held multiple engineering… Read More

Daniel is joined by Dr. Bernard Murphy, a friend and fellow blogger on SemiWiki. Dan explores some key milestones in Bernard’s journey in semiconductors and EDA, beginning with a focus on nuclear physics. Bernard explains how he developed an interest in AI technology and applications. In this broad and informative discussion,… Read More

Daniel is joined by Wally Rhines, CEO of Silvaco, about the Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. Wally is the industry coordinator for the EDA data collection program called EDMD. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the electronic design automation companies … Read More

Daniel is joined by Jorn Smeets, Managing Director for North America at PhotonDelta, an industry accelerator for photonic chip technology. Based in Silicon Valley, his mission is to advance the photonic chip industry by fostering collaboration between European and North American entities. Dan explores the focus of PhotonDelta… Read More