Editorial: Renewed Excellence for 2025–2026

I am happy and honored to have been reappointed as Editor in Chief (EiC) for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI) for another two-year term. As I continue my efforts to improve the quality of the journal, I am grateful for the renewed trust placed in me by the three IEEE sponsoring societies (CASS, SSCS and CS) and by the VLSI community at large. Contrary to a feared slowdown due to increased difficulties with scaling, the field of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has actually grown at an increasingly fast rate as it provides the hardware backbone for the insatiable AI applications which are taking over the world. The H100/200 GPUs, which are essential for AI training, are the largest “conventional” integrated circuits (IC) with 80 billion transistors, while the wafer-scale WSE2/3, which can provide significant improvements in AI inference, are absolute behemoths with 4 trillion transistors! Mr. Moore can be proud there in heaven for what our industry is able to deliver!