# When AI Gets a Body: Physical AI, Humanoids and the Future of Silicon

- Show: [EE Times Current](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current)
- Published: 2026-06-05
- Length: 41m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon
- Listen: https://podcast.show/aspencore/episode/153914105/

## Summary

Hezi Saar, Executive Director of Product Marketing at Synopsys, discusses the rise of Physical AI, focusing on the semiconductor demands of humanoid robots and autonomous systems. He explains the shift from cloud-only AI to hybrid inference architectures that balance latency, privacy, and cost, highlighting the 'memory wall' bottleneck in edge devices. Saar also details how open standards like MIPI CSE 2.0 and multi-die packaging are critical for reducing risk and enabling secure, scalable physical AI hardware.

## Chapters

- [0:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=3) Introduction and Market Growth
- [4:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=243) Defining Physical AI and Hybrid Inference
- [9:11](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=551) Market Opportunity and Humanoid Economics
- [12:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=776) Evolution to Vision-Language-Action Models
- [16:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=966) Design Constraints: Performance, Power, and Latency
- [24:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=1473) Addressing the Memory Wall and Data Movement
- [29:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=1742) Physical AI SoC Requirements and Standards
- [36:52](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2026-06-05-when-ai-gets-a-body-physical-ai-humanoids-and-the-future-of-silicon#t=2212) Industry Call to Action and Standardization

## Topics

- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Sensors & measurement in products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sensors)
- [Security & privacy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/security-and-privacy)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Synopsys (company)
- MIPI Alliance (company)
- CSE 2.0 (other)
- UFS (other)
- PCIe (other)
- Jetson (product)
- DDR (other)
- LPDDR (other)
- KV cache (other)
- RAG (other)
- NPU (other)
- SOC (other)
- GPU (other)
- CPU (other)
- LLM (other)
- VLM (other)
- VLA (other)
- AMR (other)
- EU Cyber Resilience Act (other)

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