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NVIDIA Releases PersonaPlex: Full-Duplex Conversational AI Model with Customizable Voice and Role
On January 15, 2026, NVIDIA announced PersonaPlex, a 7-billion-parameter full-duplex speech-to-speech conversational AI model that supports simultaneous listening and speaking. The model builds on the Moshi architecture from Kyutai. It uses a single integrated system to process user audio
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Toshiba Adopts Siemens EDA Tools for 3D IC, AI Simulation, and Power Optimization in Analog and Power Semiconductors
Siemens announced that Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has introduced Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software to enhance its power devices and analog semiconductor development capabilities. Toshiba has introduced Siemens’ EDA tools and begun tr
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Exascale Microelectronics Simulation Suite MicroEleX Offers Four GPU-Accelerated Codes for Ferroelectrics, Quantum Transport, Electrodynamics and Micromagnetics
The MicroEleX software package, developed under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, offers a collection of open-source, GPU-scalable simulation tools built on the AMReX adaptive mesh refinement framework for semiconductor and microelectronics applications. The
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Analog Devices Releases CodeFusion Studio 2.0 with AI Workflow Support and Zephyr Framework
Analog Devices has launched CodeFusion Studio 2.0, an upgrade to its open source embedded development platform based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. The platform introduces end-to-end AI workflow support with bring-your-own-model capability, model compatibility checks, performance profil
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Silicon Labs Launches Simplicity Ecosystem for IoT Development with AI SDK Planned for 2026
Silicon Labs announced the Simplicity Ecosystem, a suite of modular software tools for embedded IoT development, anchored by Simplicity Studio 6 and including the Simplicity AI SDK framework with AI augmentation set for release in 2026. The ecosystem unifies installation, configuration, de
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Cadence and NVIDIA Collaborate on AI Power Analysis for Billion-Gate Designs
Cadence announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to advance power analysis for pre-silicon AI designs using the Cadence Palladium Z3 Enterprise Emulation Platform and the new Cadence Dynamic Power Analysis (DPA) App. The technology enables hardware-accelerated dynamic power analysis of billion
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Ansys Integrates NVIDIA Omniverse for Enhanced AI and Digital Twin Simulations
Ansys, a part of Synopsys, has entered an agreement with NVIDIA to license, sell, and support NVIDIA Omniverse technology within Ansys simulation solutions. The integration, starting with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and autonomous solutions, enables seamless data preparation, interoperabil
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Cognichip emerges from stealth with $33M seed funding for Artificial Chip Intelligence
Cognichip, a company developing Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI) for semiconductor design, announced its emergence from stealth with $33 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lux Capital and Mayfield, with participation from FPV and Candou Ventures. Founded by Faraj Aalaei, who previous
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Large wafer AI semiconductor chip expert Cerebras launches Qwen3-32B on its AI inference platform
Cerebras announced the launch of Qwen3-32B, an open-weight model developed by Alibaba, now available on the Cerebras Inference Platform. The model performs comparably to closed models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek R1 and is accessible for the first time on Cerebras with real-time responsiveness.
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Indian startup Ziroh Labs CPU-fying Gen-AI LLMs as an alternative to expensive GPU processor chips
Year 2017 founded Indian startup Ziroh Labs with around 50+ developers is enabling popular Gen-AI LLMs to run on near-ubiquitous CPUs instead GPUs to help developers use available CPUs with demand and cost of GPUs skyrocketing. The other advantages and features include, these can be deployed eith
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EDA software and IP industry grew by 11% to $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024
ESD Alliance of SEMI reported from its latest findings that the Electronic System Design (ESD) industry which basically consists of EDA software and IP businesses grew its revenue by 11% to $4,927.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 from the $4440.9 million reported in the fourth
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Leonardo integrates wind river VxWorks RTOS for advanced multi-core RF safety systems in aerospace and defense
At Aerospace Tech Week, Wind River, announced that Leonardo, a prominent player in the aerospace, defense, and security sector, has chosen the VxWorks RTOS to drive software-defined advancements in its cutting-edge safety-related radio frequency system on multicore processor architectures.<
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