19 Feb 2026 Rob Aslett
Professor Vidya Chhabria Receives Si2 Pinnacle Award
Si2 is pleased to announce that Professor Vidya Chhabria from Arizona State University has been selected as the co-winner of the Si2 Q1 2026 Pinnacle Award, presented quarterly to volunteers who...
19 Feb 2026 Rob Aslett
Professor Ioannis Savidis Receives Si2 Pinnacle Award
Si2 is pleased to announce that Professor Ioannis Savidis from Drexel University has been selected as a co-winner of the Si2 Q1 2026 Pinnacle Award, presented quarterly to volunteers who...
13 Feb 2026 Rob Aslett
Si2 Welcomes TSMC’s Aveek Sarkar to the Board of Directors
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb 3, 2026 -- The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is pleased to announce that Aveek Sarkar has been elected to the Si2 Board of Directors. Aveek is...
5 Jan 2026 Rob Aslett
NXP’s Viraphol Chaiyakul joins Si2 Board
We are happy to announce that Viraphol Chaiyakul from NXP has been elected to the Si2 Board of Directors. Viraphol is currently Senior Director of Engineering at NXP, where he...
8 Dec 2025 Rob Aslett
Leon Stok of IBM Elected Chair of Si2 Board
AUSTIN, Texas – December 2, 2025 – The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced that Dr. Leon Stok, Vice President of Electronic Design Automation at IBM, has been elected Chair of...
24 Nov 2025 Rob Aslett
LLM Benchmarking Workshop Slated for Dec. 9th
On December 9, 2025, the Si2 LLM Benchmarking Coalition (LBC) is holding a hybrid in-person/virtual workshop in Sunnyvale, CA. Leaders from 16 semiconductor design and EDA companies and 8 academic/research...
21 Nov 2025 Rob Aslett
ICMC 2026 Announces Call for Papers
The 2026 International Compact Modeling Conference (ICMC), co-sponsored by IEEE EDS, will be held in Long Beach CA on July 30-31, 2026. The conference has recently issued a call for...
10 Oct 2025 Rob Aslett
Si2 Names NVIDIA, Synopsys Technologists to Lead New LLM Benchmarking Coalition
AUSTIN, Texas, October 8 – The Silicon Integration Initiative today announced the chair and vice chair of the Si2 Large Language Model Benchmarking Coalition (LBC), a collaborative industry initiative and...
4 Sep 2025 Rob Aslett
Si2 Publishes its 2025 Annual Report
The Silicon Integration Initiative announced today that it has published The Si2 2025 Annual Report that spans September 2024 through September 2025. The report can be viewed using the link...
2 Sep 2025 Rob Aslett
ICMC Organizers Receive Annual Si2 Power of Partnerships Award
The Silicon Integration Initiative has announced recipients of the 2025 Si2 Power of Partnerships Award, presented annually to recognize Si2 member teams that make substantial contributions to the field of...