Hardware-Based Confidential Computing (NIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

NIST has published a draft report, titled “Hardware Enabled Security: Hardware-Based Confidential Computing,” which presents an approach for managing machine identities for protection against malware and other security vulnerabilities. Comments are due April 10, 2023. Abstract "Organizations employ a growing volume of machine identities, often numbering in the thousands or millions per ... » read more

SpGEMM Targeting RISC-V Vector Processors (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
By Technical Paper Link - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Optimization of SpGEMM with Risc-V vector instructions" was published (preprint) by researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Abstract "The Sparse GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) C=A×B is a fundamental routine extensively used in domains like machine learning or graph analytics. Despite its relevance, the efficient execution of SpGEMM ... » read more

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Global semiconductor sales decreased 5.2% month-to-month in January, according to a new report by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). For the year, worldwide chip sales are down 18.5%, with the largest drop in sales by China at 31.6%, followed by the Asia Pacific region at 19.5%, and the Americas at 12.4%. Despite the contraction, companies are increasing investments in manufacturi... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Linda Christensen - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Rambus will begin selling Arm's CryptoCell embedded security platform and CryptoIsland root-of-trust cores, setting the stage for a much broader push by Rambus into security for a wide range of connected devices, and ultimately into security as a service. Under the terms of the deal, Rambus' customers will be able to license Arm IP directly from Rambus. For Arm's existing customers, there will ... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Arm is expected to list solely on a U.S. stock exchange when it goes public again later this year, forgoing the London Stock Exchange for now, the BBC reports. Global investment banks expect the offering to value the company between $30 billion and $70 billion, according to Bloomberg. Disaggregating chips into specialized processors, memories, and architectures is becoming necessary for cont... » read more

Virtual Process Game To Benchmark Performance of Humans And Computers For Design Of A Semiconductor Fabrication Process
By Technical Paper Link - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Human–machine collaboration for improving semiconductor process development" was published by researchers at Lam Research. Abstract: "One of the bottlenecks to building semiconductor chips is the increasing cost required to develop chemical plasma processes that form the transistors and memory storage cells These processes are still developed manually using h... » read more

Enabling New Server Architectures With The CXL Interconnect
By Lou Ternullo - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

The ever-growing demand for higher performance compute is motivating the exploration of new compute offload architectures for the data center. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are just one example of the increasingly complex and demanding workloads that are pushing data centers to move away from the classic server computing architecture. These more demanding workloads can be... » read more

100G Ethernet IP For Edge Computing
By Jerry Lotto - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

The presence of Ethernet in our lives has paved the way for the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Ethernet has connected everything around us and beyond, from smart homes and businesses, to industries, schools, and governments. This specification is even found in our vehicles, facilitating communication between internal devices. Ethernet has enabled high-performance computing data cent... » read more

Uneven Circuit Aging Becoming A Bigger Problem
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Circuit aging is emerging as a first-order design challenge as engineering teams look for new ways to improve reliability and ensure the functionality of chips throughout their expected lifetimes. The need for reliability is obvious in data centers and automobiles, where a chip failure could result in downtime or injury. It also is increasingly important in mobile and consumer electronics, w... » read more

IEDM: Backside Power Delivery
By Paul McLellan - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

One part of the short course that I attended at IEDM in December was about backside power delivery networks. It was presented by Gaspard Hiblot of imec and titled "Process Architectures Changes to Improve Power Delivery." The presentation is co-credited with Geert Hellings and Julien Ryckaert. I should preface this post with the fact that this presentation was 80 slides long and so I will only... » read more

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