Building AI Without Guardrails


Key Takeaways: AI governance is broadly recognized as essential, but today it remains fragmented, largely aspirational, and lacking enforceable mechanisms for accountability, runtime assurance, and global interoperability. Because AI innovation is advancing too quickly for governments or standards bodies to keep pace, practical AI governance is most likely to emerge first from high‑ri... » read more

2.5D + 3D = “3.5D”!


The semiconductor industry is no longer defined solely by transistor scaling. As Moore's law decelerates, advanced packaging has become the primary lever for achieving system-level performance gains. Within this landscape, the equation 2.5D + 3D = 3.5D—defying the instincts of basic math and physics—captures a pivotal architectural evolution: one that balances performance, manufacturabilit... » read more

What Is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) In Data Centers?


In 2024, data centers consumed around 415 terawatt hours (TWh), or about 1.5% of global electricity, says the International Energy Agency. As the backbone of the digital economy, data centers are estimated to consume 2-3% of the world’s electricity by 2030. To manage this consumption, industry leaders have relied on a single metric: Power usage effectiveness (PUE). What is power usage ... » read more

Beyond the Clinic: A Blueprint For Developing Reliable, Edge AI-Enabled Medical Devices


In a quiet farmhouse in rural Utah, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, a pregnant mother wakes up and waits for a kick that doesn’t come. In this part of the country—one of the many "medical deserts" where 30% of counties lack a single gynecologist—the nearest hospital is a 500-mile journey. Usually, this moment of silence leads to a desperate phone call to an HMO where a nurse asks... » read more

Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly


Key Takeaways Humanoid robots are rapidly expanding beyond factories and logistics toward broader, general-purpose roles (including in-home assistance), driven by advances in AI and sensing. Compared with vision and language, touch (haptics) and hearing/voice in real environments remain the hardest — and most commercially important — sensing challenges, requiring fast sensor fusion ... » read more

Designing GPUs For Developers: A Conversation With Godot


Godot has rapidly established itself as one of the most important graphics engines in today’s ecosystem. Free, open source, and increasingly capable across 2D, 3D, mobile, desktop, and beyond, it represents a philosophy that resonates strongly with modern developers. In this conversation, Clay John—who leads Godot’s rendering team—shares how Godot thinks about performance, iteration,... » read more

Next-Gen Batteries Require Impedance Data And Active Balancing


Key Takeaways Electric vehicles and energy storage systems using LFP batteries require more sophisticated diagnostic methods because they exhibit very flat cell voltages across various charge levels, making it harder to estimate usable energy. Battery management systems are leveraging new components, AI/ML, digital twins, and other techniques to get more accurate, real-time data, includ... » read more

Enabling A Critical Phase in SoC Development


High speed execution of an SoC model on an FPGA-based prototyping system is essential—both to permit development and verification of the full software stack and to understand hardware/software interactions—before silicon is available. But for SoC designs that include high-speed, voluminous I/O, it is equally essential that the prototype be exercised with large amounts of real-world I/O o... » read more

Power And Sensing – Selection Guide 2026


The semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformation. This transformation is driven by the critical role semiconductors play in decarbonization and digitalization and their ability to enable innovation across fields at an unprecedented scale. Recent advancements in AI, autonomous driving, humanoid robots, and our increasingly connected lifestyles are just a few examples of the rapid change... » read more

Securing AI at the Silicon Level: Solutions for a Smarter, Safer Future


This white paper explains how Synopsys Security IP embeds hardware‑rooted protection into AI SoCs and chiplets to secure their data and models. It highlights growing AI attack vectors across edge and data‑center environments and shows how technologies like PUF, tRoot HSM, interface security, and PQC create long‑term, silicon‑level trust. Why read this whitepaper: Learn how sili... » read more

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