8 Aug 2026 Rob Aslett
Si2 Welcomes Normal Computing’s Thomas Ahle to Si2 Board
ROUND ROCK, Texas, August 8, 2026 — The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is pleased to announce that Thomas Ahle is a newly elected member of Si2 Board of Directors for...
8 Aug 2026 Rob Aslett
Si2 2026-2027 Board of Directors Elected
ROUND ROCK, AUGUST 8, 2026 – The election of the 2026-2027 Si2 Board of Directors recently completed. Thirteen members of the 2025-2026 Board were re-elected and one new member of...
8 Aug 2026 Rob Aslett
Leon Stok of IBM Reelected Si2 Board Chair
ROUND ROCK, AUGUST 8, 2026 – Leon Stok, vice president of Electronic Design Automation at IBM, has been reelected as board chair of the Silicon Integration Initiative for 2026-2027. Dr....
21 Jul 2026 Rachel Berke
Introducing the LBC-bench Leaderboard: A New Public Benchmark for LLMs in Chip Design
Today, the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is announcing the launch of LBC-bench, a public, open-source leaderboard that tracks how large language models and AI agents perform on semiconductor design and...
23 Jun 2026 Rachel Berke
Summary and key improvements in CVDP1.1.0
The Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) is an open-source benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on RTL (Register Transfer Level) coding and verification tasks. Initial release in June of...
22 Jun 2026 Rachel Berke
Si2 LLM Benchmarking Coalition Workshop: Aligning Agentic Benchmarking and Verification Methods with Real-World EDA Workflows
Join us in Santa Clara, CA for the Second Si2 LLM Benchmarking Coalition Workshop: Aligning Agentic Benchmarking and Verification Methods with Real-World EDA Workflows Semiconductor design and manufacturing companies are building agentic flows/systems on the promise...
8 Jun 2026 Rachel Berke
Introducing Si2 AI for EDA Ontology
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) AI/ML Schema/Ontology Working Group is introducing a public release of their AI for EDA Ontology. The goal of this public release of the Si2 AI/ML Schema Ontology Repository is...
3 Jun 2026 Rachel Berke
Sriram Sivasubramanian Agrees to Serve as Co-Chair of the OpenAccess Coalition
Sriram Sivasubramanian (NVIDIA) has agreed to serve as Co-Chair of the OpenAccess Coalition. The Coalition Chair, Ramond Rodriguez (Intel) has been working with out a co-chair for a short time....
3 Jun 2026 Rachel Berke
Si2 Names Synopsys R&D Scientist to LBC Leadership
The Silicon Integration Initiative today announced the new Vice Chair of the Si2 Large Language Model Benchmarking Coalition (LBC), a collaborative industry initiative and standards body advancing AI for silicon...
20 May 2026 Rachel Berke
Mark Rossman Receives Si2 Pinnacle Award
Just a few years ago Mark Rossman became the Architect for the OpenAccess Coalition Change Team. With support from Adam Matheny (co-Architect) they have moved the team forward through three data model...
