Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test

By Gregory Haley - 14 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

SEMICON West returned in force this week, with a focus on AI and deep learning in semiconductor manufacturing, security, heterogenous ICs, and the march toward a $1 trillion chip market. Lam Research President and CEO, Tim Archer, opened with the keynote presentation. Fig. 1: SEMICON West panel: AI’s influence on growth, China-U.S. trade war, and the importance of climate policy were... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By SE Staff - 14 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

DAC and SEMICON WEST rebounded this year, focusing on everything from security to chiplets and smart manufacturing. Panel at DAC conference: Left to right, ARM’s Brian Fuller (moderator), Joe Costello (Metrics, Kwikbit, Arrikto, Acromove), and Wally Rhines (Cornami). Source: Semiconductor Engineering/Ann Mutschler EDA and IP remain strong, approaching $4 billion in Q1, according to ... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing

By Liz Allan - 14 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

Google was hit with a class action suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleging data scraping from millions of users without consent and violation of copyright laws to train and develop its AI products. Last month, the same law firm filed a suit against OpenAI for ChatGPT. Despite calling for a pause on development of advanced AI in March, Elon Musk launched xAI, a new company focu... » read more

Hardware-Efficient Approach To Defend Against Fault Attacks

By Technical Paper Link - 13 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Fault Attacks on Access Control in Processors: Threat, Formal Analysis and Microarchitectural Mitigation" was published by researchers at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. Abstract: "Process isolation is a key component of the security architecture in any hardware/software system. However, even when implemented correctly and comprehensively at the software (SW) le... » read more

Antenna For Nanoscale Light Source By Placing The TMD Outside The Tunnelling Pathway

By Technical Paper Link - 13 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Exciton-assisted electron tunnelling in van der Waals heterostructures" was published by researchers at ETH Zürich, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, National Institute for Materials Science, University of Basel, and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA). Abstract:... » read more

Chip Industry Needs More Trust, Not Zero Trust

By SE Staff - 13 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

CISOs from Intel, TSMC, ASML, Applied Materials, and Lam Research unanimously called for the semiconductor industry to pull together to share information and develop cybersecurity protocols as a community at the Securing the Future for Semiconductor Manufacturing forum at SEMICON West. Chief information security officers (CISO) detailed their company’s method for dealing with cybersecurity... » read more

Challenges Of Heterogeneous Integration

By Ed Sperling - 13 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

Heterogeneous integration opens the door to an almost unlimited number of features in a single package, but it also adds system-level challenges into a small space filled with a whole spectrum of possible interactions. Mike Kelly, vice president of chiplets/FCBGA integration at Amkor Technology, talks about a variety of issues ranging from uneven aging, warpage, and different mechanical stresse... » read more

DAC/Semicon West Wednesday

By The SE Staff - 13 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 1

Trade restrictions against China were a regular topic of discussion at both DAC and Semicon West this week. Five Chinese startups exhibited prominently at this week's Design Automation Conference, in the wake of increasingly restrictive trade regulations that limit the sale of U.S. and European EDA tools used to develop advanced semiconductors. Most attendees interviewed said privately th... » read more

DAC/Semicon West Addresses Top Issues, Trends For Chips

By The SE Staff - 12 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023 and Semicon West returned in full force this week, drawing in more attendees and sponsor companies than since before the pandemic. At times, booth traffic was four to five deep, blocking aisles, and standing room only was common at presentations. Hot topics included generative AI and the underlying semiconductor technology, data security, reliabili... » read more

Research Bits: July 12

By Jesse Allen - 12 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

Predicting crystal orientation Researchers from Nagoya University and RIKEN trained an AI on optical photographs of polycrystalline silicon and used it to predict crystal orientation during manufacturing. They found that the AI successfully predicted the grain orientation distribution. “The time required for this measurement was about 1.5 hours for taking optical photographs, training the... » read more

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