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Jean-Marie Brunet, senior director of marketing at Mentor, a Siemens Business, served as moderator for a well-attended and lively DVCon U.S. panel discussion on the hot topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

The hour-long session featured panelists Raymond Nijssen, vice president and chief technologist at Achronix; Rob Aitken, fellow and director of technology from Arm; Alex Starr, senior fellow at AMD; Ty Garibay, Mythic’s vice president of hardware engineering; and Saad Godil, director of applied deep-learning research at Nvidia.

What follows is Part 1 of a four-part mini-series based on the panel transcript. It covers Brunet’s first question about how AI is reshaping the semiconductor industry — specifically, chip design verification and panelists’ impressions.