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The New Era of Silicon: Collaboration Over Competition with PDF Solutions CEO John Kibarian

We all know that the semiconductor industry has always been fiercely competitive, but what if the key to its next great leap isn’t competition, but collaboration? My podcast guest, John Kibarian, President and CEO of PDF Solutions, believes that for the industry to keep pace with demand and complexity, a new model of cooperation is essential. In this week’s Fish Fry, we’re going beyond traditional partnerships to explore what genuine, industry-wide collaboration looks like, how it fundamentally differs from past approaches, and what massive shift the industry must make to embrace this change. 

 

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Fish Fry Executive Interviews

David Mayman, CEO – Mayman Aerospace 

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys

Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software

Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix

Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon

Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific

Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas

Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices

Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter

Mark Papermaster, CTO – AMD

David Fried, CTO – Coventor

Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell

David Dutton, CEO – Silvaco

Bob Niemiec, CEO – TwistThink

Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies

Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT

Dan Fox, CTO – Local Motors

Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots

Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix

Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP

Alan Grau, CEO — Icon Labs

Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic

Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

David Su, CEO – Atomic Technologies

Mung Chiang, EVP and Dean of Engineering College – Purdue University

Clay Johnson, CEO – CacheQ

Andy Hock, Vice President, Product – Cerebras Systems

Dan Goehl, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer – UltraSense Systems

Charlie Green, Chief Operating & Technical Officer – Powercast

Mike Johnson, Co-Founder and CTO – SEOPS

Peter Himes, CSO – 4DS Memory

Shahram Mossayebi,  Founder and CEO – Crypto Quantique

Ritu Favre, President – Emerson Test and Measurement 

Larry Richenstein, Founder and CEO – WePower

David Pearah, CEO – SpiderOak

Giovanni Garcea, President – AnDAPT

Bill Lamie, CEO – PX5 RTOS and RTOSX

Dermot O’Shea – Taoglas 

Dr. Masha Petrova – Nullspace

Mark Gorenson – EMASS

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