Semi Doped

By Vikram Sekar and Austin Lyons

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Episodes: 56

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The business and technology of semiconductors. Alpha for engineers and investors alike.


Episode Date
Why Marvell Wants Lumentum: Vertical Integration in AI Optics With Cignal AI
Oct 30, 2026
How Intel Took EMIB From Science Fiction to High Volume: Intel Foundry's Ravi Mahajan
Oct 28, 2026
RF Over Plastic Is a Third Option Between Copper and Optics: Point2's Sean Park
Oct 23, 2026
MicroVCSELs vs MicroLEDs, a MicroExplainer
Oct 20, 2026
AI Inference Is a Data Movement Problem: Microsoft's Saurabh Dighe on Maia 300
Oct 15, 2026
Synopsys’s Amazon Deal and GPT-Synopsys: Ravi Subramanian
Oct 08, 2026
Every Muse User Gets 2 CPUs and 8GB in Meta's Cloud. Your Phone Already Has That
Oct 01, 2026
Flash Hit Its Physical Limit. ReRAM Is the Replacement: WeeBit Nano's Ilan Sever
Sep 29, 2026
Qualcomm's Durga Malladi: HBC vs HBM, Dragonfly AI 250, and Winning on TCO
Sep 24, 2026
Pacing AI Means More Compute, Not Less
Sep 18, 2026
TSMC Will Buy High NA After All: ASML's New 6x12-Inch Mask
Sep 14, 2026
OpenAI’s Jalapeño! Feeling Hot Hot Hot!
Aug 27, 2026
Grok Bots and How CPUs are used in Agentic AI
Aug 24, 2026
Tensordyne's R K Anand: HPE Juniper Fabric, Logarithmic Math, MoE Inference, Air Cooling, 3nm
Aug 18, 2026
NEWS TAKE: China's Optical Ban, Volta's $10B Anthropic Deal, AMD's Earnings
Aug 11, 2026
GlobalFoundries Thomas Barber: CPO, Silicon Photonics, 300mm, SiGe, OCI, NRZ
Aug 07, 2026
How Retimers Built an $80B Company: The Story of Astera Labs
Aug 01, 2026
News Take: Hyperscaler CDS, SK Hynix Earnings, China's DUV
Jul 29, 2026
Datacenter Interconnects: Copper vs. Optics, Nvidia's 78-Layer PCB, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)
Jul 25, 2026
PicoJool's Al Yuen: The Case for GaAs VCSELs in Scale-Up Interconnects
Jul 16, 2026
WEKA's Val Bercovici: KV Cache, DeepSeek V4, HBF, SLC vs QLC NAND, CXL, NVLink, Tokenomics
Jul 10, 2026
Micron's Record Profits, Apple's CXMT Plea: AI is Eating All the Memory
Jul 03, 2026
Qualcomm's HBC Memory, Alphawave, Modular, and more
Jun 29, 2026
Advanced Packaging, TSMC CoWoS, Intel EMIB
Jun 19, 2026
Computex Mania 2026: Optics and Power
Jun 12, 2026
Huawei's Tau Scaling Law: Is the "EUV Killer" Real?
May 29, 2026
Lithography Masterclass
May 22, 2026
Cerebras IPO
May 15, 2026
Gimlet's Cross-Vendor Inference Cloud
May 12, 2026
Power as the Next Physics Wall for AI
May 08, 2026
CapEx is just Memory Tax Now, Deepseek V4 NAND impact
May 04, 2026
Masterclass on Google's TPU v8 Networking
Apr 24, 2026
Meta VP Matt Steiner on Ads Infra, GPUs, MTIA, and LLM-Written Kernels
Apr 20, 2026
Credo + Dust Photonics, XPO, Nuvacore
Apr 17, 2026
Is Intel Finally Back with a $300B market cap? OpenClaw can Dream?
Apr 10, 2026
Reiner Pope (MatX): Designing AI Chips From First Principles for LLMs
Apr 09, 2026
$300M for 70K Viewers | Intel x Elon, OpenAI x TBPN, Citrini's Strait of Hormuz Stunt
Apr 07, 2026
NVIDIA's Marvell Strategy, Is Memory Different This Time?, Intel's Ireland Fab
Apr 03, 2026
ARM AGI CPU has entered the chat, TurboQuant thrashes memory stocks
Mar 27, 2026
MicroLEDs Ain’t Dead, Micron Snags Vera Rubin
Mar 20, 2026
Quick Takes: Nvidia Keynote at GTC
Mar 17, 2026
Meta's Inference Accelerator & Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI)
Mar 13, 2026
The Great Optics-Copper Crossroads
Mar 07, 2026
Optical Supply Chain: What would you buy?
Feb 27, 2026
Optical Networking Supercycle - ALL the Tech You NEED to know
Feb 20, 2026
Memory Mayhem & AI Capex Madness
Feb 13, 2026
The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn
Feb 10, 2026
A New Era of Context Memory with Val Bercovici from WEKA
Feb 06, 2026
OpenClaw Makes AI Agents and CPUs Get Real
Feb 03, 2026
An Interview with Microsoft's Saurabh Dighe About Maia 200
Jan 28, 2026
Can Pre-GPT AI Accelerators Handle Long Context Workloads?
Jan 26, 2026
An Interview with Innoviz CEO Omer Keilaf about current LiDAR market dynamics
Jan 22, 2026
LiDAR, Explained: How It Works and Why It Matters
Jan 19, 2026
Nvidia CES 2026
Jan 12, 2026
Insights from IEDM 2025
Jan 08, 2026
Nvidia "Acquires" Groq
Jan 05, 2026