Podcast EP358: How Custom Silicon Development Allowed Cisco to Fuel New Innovation for Its Customers

Daniel is joined by Mark Ren, founder and CEO of Agentrys. Mark has 26 years of EDA and AI R&D experience spanning IBM Research and NVIDIA Research, driving design automation innovations that power modern chip design. He received the IBM Corporate Award for contributions to the design closure for high-performance microprocessors.… Read More

Daniel is joined by Dr. Germain Fenger, Senior Director of Product Management at Synopsys where he leads advanced mask solutions and computational lithography technologies. With a background spanning semiconductor manufacturing, lithography research, engineering, and product leadership, Germain has held roles at imec,… Read More

Daniel is joined by Moshe Tanach, co-founder and CEO of NeuReality. Prior to founding the company, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Marvell and Intel, where he led complex wireless and networking products from architecture through mass production. He also served as AVP of R&D at DesignArt Networks (later acquired… Read More

Daniel is joined by Dr. Cedric Huyghebaert, CTO of Black Semiconductor. Cedric is one of the world’s leading experts in the development and integration of 2D materials, particularly graphene, into industrial semiconductor manufacturing. With a PhD in Physics from KU Leuven and over 25 years at imec, Cedric built and led… Read More

Daniel is joined by Ed Nelson, Strategy Director and Co-Founder of AI Infra Summit. He co-leads the production team and specializes in product strategy and management, keynote speaker acquisition and VIP network development. Ed started the summit in 2018 and has spent nearly ten years as part of the team building AI Infra Summit… Read More

Daniel is joined by Anne-Marie Tierney, Divisional Manager at IDA Ireland. Anne-Marie has 24 years’ experience in the global investment environment with IDA Ireland, working across several key roles in Ireland and abroad, positioning Ireland for high impact investments, with a specific interest in semiconductors. Prior … Read More

Daniel is joined by David Kravitz, Senior Principal Engineer at SiFive, the pioneer of the RISC- V computing revolution. A veteran silicon architect with decades of experience designing high-performance processors ranging from VAX and Alpha to MIPS and ARM, David led the team behind some of the most critical breakthroughs in… Read More

Daniel is joined by Nick Kucharewski Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cisco’s silicon development organization. In this role he is responsible for the end-to-end strategy, cross-functional execution, organization alignment, and product roadmap for Silicon One, Cisco’s uniquely scalable and programmable … Read More

Daniel is joined by David Liberman, a Los Angeles-based futurist, serial entrepreneur, investor, and former Director of Products at Snap, as well as the co-creator of the Gonka protocol. Gonka is a decentralized protocol that connects people who need computing power for AI with operators who provide GPU hardware. Its goal is … Read More

Daniel is joined by Andrew Levy, Vice President of Business Development, IP & ASIC at Alphacore. Andrew leads strategic growth initiatives, customer engagement, technology commercialization, and business development activities for the company’s semiconductor IP, ASIC design services, and advanced microelectronics… Read More