Verification Horizons
Why First-Silicon Success Is Getting Harder for System Companies
September 03, 2025
First-silicon success is getting harder.
Everyone wants their own chip. Few are hitting first-silicon success.
That’s the paradox shaping today’s semiconductor landscape.
In the 2024 Siemens EDA / Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, which I authored, we found that only 14% of ASIC/SoC projects achieved first-silicon success — the lowest figure in more than twenty years of tracking this data.
