Morning Brief

Sunday, August 30, 2026

AI News

trunk/7e1c35ebdb7015a89ecdb99030893a767550eef1: [CUDA] Add non-overlapping fast path for avg_pool2d backward (#191086) PyTorch Release
trunk/10a2f3aa6abef3a84ad0ba37007fbce4d4681a6b: [TokenSwitch] Add symmetric-memory zero-copy dispatch/combine (#187785) PyTorch Release
trunk/748dc51db9dd19a621b6dda3d88b48dfe5e8274d PyTorch Release
ciflow/trunk/195085 PyTorch Release
ciflow/trunk/194670 PyTorch Release

AI in VLSI

Agentrys Raises $24.5 Million As Agentic Chip Design Platform Tops 90% On NVIDIA Benchmark - Pulse 2.0 AI-in-Chip News
Anthropic reportedly explored a $7 billion acquisition of AI chip startup MatX - KuCoin AI-in-Chip News
Anthropic Pursues Advanced AI Training Chips: Revealed $7 Billion Planned Acquisition of AI Chip Startup MatX - 36Kr AI-in-Chip News
Anthropic Eyes MatX Chip Deal as AI Lab Pushes Into Custom Hardware - International Business Times, Singapore Edition AI-in-Chip News
Semifive accelerates Korea’s AI chip design with turnkey ASIC platform - CHOSUNBIZ - Chosunbiz AI-in-Chip News

Silicon

Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta) SemiEngineering
Rowhammer Backdoor Injection Attack During Inference (Northeastern) SemiEngineering
Ferroelectric Tuning Reduces Optical-Interconnect Stalls In LLM Training (Georgia Tech) SemiEngineering
Generative Design Optimizes Liquid-Cooling Channels For 2.5D And 3D Packages (UM-Dearborn) SemiEngineering
Sapphire Surface Modification Enables Wafer-Scale 2D Semiconductor Growth (Peking U., CAS et al.) SemiEngineering

EDA

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit GP8403 I2C DAC with 12V Booster #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit - Adafruit EDA Conferences
At Hot Chips, a chip that speaks both mainframe and AI - IBM EDA Conferences

VLSI Industry

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