PDF Solutions CONNECT 2026 Trip Report

PDF Solutions Vitals Santa Clara–based PDF Solutions is a semiconductor data, analytics, and connectivity company, founded in 1991. Today, its business rests on three pillars, all feeding a single data layer: The company reports about 350 customers spanning fabs, fabless, OSATs and equipment OEMs, i.e., it sits in the middle and broker data across the … Read more

The Wafer Is the New Battleground: Soitec CPO René Jonker on Building AI from the Substrate Up

Ask an engineer where AI performance comes from and you will hear about process nodes, dataflow, HBM stacks and interconnect fabrics. Rarely about the wafer. Yet a Grenoble company that most people outside the industry have never heard of has quietly built its business on a simple idea: if you engineer the right properties into … Read more