Using Deep Data For Improved Reliability Testing


Reliability testing always has been a challenge for semiconductor companies, but it’s becoming much more difficult as devices continue to shrink, as they’re integrated together in advanced packages, and as they’re utilized under different conditions with life expectancy that varies by application and use case. Nir Sever, senior director of business development at proteanTecs, and Luca Mor... » read more

IoT Building Block: Touch Interface HMI


Many IoT devices have started to include touch screen interfaces as part of their UI to make the devices more intuitive and easier to use. A great interface can make customers really love and want to use your IoT product, but a poor HMI interface makes the device unusable damaging the brand value. Given this impact a touch interface can have on your IoT device, it made me wonder what are the... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 8


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=183 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Research Bits: Jan. 8


High mobility graphene Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Tianjin University created a functional semiconductor made from graphene that is compatible with conventional microelectronics processing methods. "We now have an extremely robust graphene semiconductor with 10 times the mobility of silicon, and which also has unique properties not available in silicon," said Walt... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Susan Rambo, Jesse Allen, and Liz Allan The U.S. government will provide about $162 million in federal incentives, under the CHIPS and Science Act, to help Microchip onshore its semiconductor supply chain. The move is aimed at securing a reliable domestic supply of MCUs and mature-node chips. “Today’s announcement will help propel semiconductor manufacturing projects in Colorado and O... » read more

Top500: Frontier Still On Top, Sunway Formally Reappears


New versions of the Top500 and Green500 lists have been released, and Frontier continues its reign at Number. 1. But a newcomer, Aurora, using Intel’s Sapphire Rapids, has entered at the Number 2 position with a “half-scale” system. Both machines are HPE Crays, with the former using AMD optimized third-gen EPYC 64C at 2.0GHz and AMD Instinct MI250X, while the latter uses Intel Xeon CPU... » read more

SRAM’s Role In Emerging Memories


Experts at the Table — Part 3: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about AI, the latest issues in SRAM, and the potential impact of new types of memory, with Tony Chan Carusone, CTO at Alphawave Semi; Steve Roddy, chief marketing officer at Quadric; and Jongsin Yun, memory technologist at Siemens EDA. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. Part one of this conversation can be ... » read more

Efficient LLM Inference With Limited Memory (Apple)


A technical paper titled “LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory” was published by researchers at Apple. Abstract: "Large language models (LLMs) are central to modern natural language processing, delivering exceptional performance in various tasks. However, their intensive computational and memory requirements present challenges, especially for device... » read more

Challenges And Innovations Of HW Security And Trust For Chiplet-Based 2.5D and 3D ICs


A technical paper titled “On hardware security and trust for chiplet-based 2.5D and 3D ICs: Challenges and Innovations” was published by researchers at STMicroelectronics Crolles (ST-CROLLES), Département Systèmes et Circuits Intégrés Numériques (DSCIN), Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés (TIMA), and Laboratoire Systèm... » read more

Design Space Simulator Of Distributed Multi-Chiplet Manycore Architectures For Comm-Intensive Applications


A technical paper titled “Muchisim: A Simulation Framework for Design Exploration of Multi-Chip Manycore Systems” was published by researchers at Princeton University. Abstract: "Current design-space exploration tools cannot accurately evaluate communication-intensive applications whose execution is data-dependent (e.g., graph analytics and sparse linear algebra) on scale-out manycore sys... » read more

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