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Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 23 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Chinese firms imported almost $26 billion worth of chipmaking machinery, according to fresh trade data released by China’s General Administration of Customs this week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry continued to show signs of improvement in Q2 2024 with significant growth of IC sales, stabilizing capital expenditure, and an increase in install... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 21
By Jesse Allen - 21 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Reela Samuel explores the critical role of PCIe 6.0 equalization in maintaining signal integrity and solutions to mitigate verification challenges, such as creating checkers to verify all symbols of TS0, ensuring the correct functioning of scrambling, and monitoring phase and LTSSM state transitions. Siemens' John McMillan introduces an advanced packaging flow for Intel's Embedded ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 16 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

The U.S. Department of Commerce and Texas Instruments (TI) signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to provide up to $1.6 billion in CHIPS Act funding towards TI’s investment of over $18 billion for three 300mm semiconductor wafer fabs under construction in Texas and Utah. TI also expects to get about $6 billion to $8 billion from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Investmen... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Dimitry Pavlovsky highlights two new features in the AMBA CHI protocol Issue G update that enhance security of the Arm architecture: Memory Encryption Contexts, which allows data in each Realm in the memory to be encrypted with a different encryption key, and Device Assignment, which introduces hardware provisions to support fully coherent caches in partially trusted remote coherent d... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 09 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Three Fraunhofer Institutes (IIS/EAS, IZM, and ENAS) launched the Chiplet Center of Excellence, a research initiative to support the commercial introduction of chiplet technology. The center initially will focus on automotive electronics, developing workflows and methods for electronics design, demonstrator construction, and the evaluation of reliability. The UCIe Consortium published the Un... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 7
By Jesse Allen - 07 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 1

Synopsys' Jyotika Athavale and Randy Fish investigate the problem of silent data corruption caused by difficult-to-detect hardware defects that cause unnoticed errors in the data being processed and is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as computing scales massively at a rapid pace with the demands of AI. Siemens' Keith Felton suggests adopting physical design reuse circuits to provid... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review
By The SE Staff - 02 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology proposed a new EUV litho technology using only four reflective mirrors and a new method of illumination optics that it claims will use 1/10 the power and cost half as much as existing EUV technology from ASML. Applied Materials may not receive expected U.S. funding to build a $4 billion research facility in Sunnyvale, CA, due to internal government... » read more

Blog Review: July 31
By Jesse Allen - 31 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Jasmine Makhija explains how to boost the performance of CXL 3.0 by using NOP (No Operation) Insertion Hints in latency-optimized 256B Flit Mode, which enables the system to quickly revert to the low-latency path after temporarily switching to a higher-latency path due to error correction needs. Synopsys' Robert Fey finds that by automatically and dynamically linking requirements a... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 26 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

The U.S. Department of Commerce and Amkor Technology signed a deal to provide up to $400 million in funding, under the CHIPS and Science Act, to build a previously announced end-to-end advanced packaging plant. The combined funding is expected to total about $2 billion. The new facility will add some 2,000 jobs in Peoria, Arizona. The SK hynix Board approved its Yongin Semiconductor Cluster... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 22
By Linda Christensen - 22 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=245 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

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