What Happens on Silicon Before Software Ever Gets a Say From an IC design perspective, the system’s behavior is largely pre-decided at the moment the silicon is taped out. Firmware and boot flows are often framed as software problems, but in practice they are extensions of architectural intent already frozen into the SoC. Reset topology, […]

The SoC Inflection: How System-on-Chip Design Evolves After 2026 By 2026, system-on-chip design reaches a structural inflection point. The challenge is no longer how many functions can be pulled onto a single die, but how coherently complexity can be distributed without collapsing under verification cost, power density, and design latency. The classical SoC playbook—larger monoliths […]

When the Curve Flattens: Semiconductor Technologies Approaching Their 2026 Inflection By 2026, several semiconductor technologies will reach a point where incremental gains no longer justify exponential complexity. This is not a collapse, but a maturing of curves that have been aggressively bent over the last decade. What follows is a period of optimization, selective investment, […]

AI Is Not One Stack, But Two Interlocking Realities Artificial intelligence is often spoken about as a single technological wave, but in practice it unfolds across two very different layers of innovation. One is rooted in physics, manufacturing constraints, and capital intensity. The other lives in systems integration, organizational behavior, and operational discipline. Both are […]