Students Win Chip Design Contest with Smart Barrier-Free Toll System
A team of five university students from Malaysia took first place at the inaugural ChampionChip eXperience design contest, held during the Selangor AI & Semiconductor Summit (AiSEM). The group designed the electronic “brain” for a barrier-free toll lane capable of making instantaneous, tamper-proof decisions. The winning project, named LaneX, was created by Team No Jam—composed […]
Brazil–Malaysia Initiative Highlights the Growing Importance of Semiconductor Talent Development
The semiconductor industry is entering a new phase of global expansion, where talent development is becoming just as important as manufacturing capacity. In this context, a new collaboration between Brazil and Malaysia demonstrates how international partnerships can help accelerate innovation and prepare the next generation of chip designers. Presented during SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026, the […]
AI2 – Semiconductor as a Service
The AI2 Platform will enable the “Semiconductor as a Service” model, a first in Brazil and worldwide! It will enable the provision of semiconductors as cloud-based services in a standardized and interoperable manner. This initiative, led by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI), is led by the von Braun Advanced Research Center and […]
Von Braun Labs at DAC 2025
A novel approach to chip design optimization using quantum computers was presented at the DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference 2025 in San Francisco – the premier event for the chip design tools ecosystem. We demonstrated the exciting potential where quantum computing meets EDA, revealing a 10x performance improvement in standard cell placement algorithms compared […]
