Blog Review: Sept. 16

Siemens’ Harry Foster finds that first-silicon success has fallen sharply, with only 5% of IC/ASIC respondents to the latest functional verification study reporting first-silicon success in 2026, compared with 14.4% in 2024. Synopsys’ Thomas Andersen argues that as chip development faces an engineering capacity crunch, implementing AI across the entire flow becomes necessary to sustain the pace of innovation. Cadence’s P. Saisrinivas introduces how to calculate minimum clock time period using co