What’s Next For Through-Silicon Vias


From large TSVs for MEMS to nanoTSVs for backside power delivery, cost-effective process flows for these interconnects are essential for making 2.5D and 3D packages more feasible. Through-silicon vias (TSVs) enable shorter interconnect lengths, which reduces chip power consumption and latency to carry signals faster from one device to another or within a device. Advanced packaging technology... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is ramping up R&D for next-gen EUV and plasma-based particle sources, aiming to increase the EUV laser source power by an order of magnitude while also making it more energy-efficient. Specifically, the goal is to replace today's CO2-based laser with a solid-state laser, using a thulium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride medium to increase the laser's powe... » read more

Auto Ecosystem Begins Shift To Software-First


Experts at the Table: The automotive ecosystem is in the midst of an intense evolution as OEMs and tiered providers grapple with how to deal with legacy technology while incorporating ever-increasing levels of autonomy, electrification, and software-defined vehicle concepts. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss these and other related issues with Wayne Lyons, senior director for the au... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Updated for 12/20 government fundings and 12/23 for China trade investigation announcements. President Biden announced a trade investigation into "China's unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector."  The announcement stated "PRC semiconductors often enter the U.S. market as a component of finished goods. This Section 301 investigation will examine a broad range of the PRC’s non-m... » read more

Strain, Stress In Advanced Packages Drives New Design Approaches


Thermal and mechanical stresses are creating significant challenges in heterogeneous chiplet assemblies, increasing the time and cost required to work through all the possible physical effects, dependencies, and interactions, and driving demand for new tools. Unlike in the past, when various components were crammed into a planar SoC on a relatively thick substrate, the new substrates are bei... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 18


Siemens’ Michael Munsey predicts that the convergence of AI, advanced packaging, and rise of software-defined products aren’t just incremental changes but will represent a fundamental shift in how we think about semiconductor design and manufacturing. Cadence's Veena Parthan points to hex-core voxels as a significant leap forward for the CFD meshing process that blends the best of struct... » read more

Chiplet Interconnects Add Power And Signal Integrity Issues


The flexibility and scalability offered by chiplets make them an increasingly attractive choice over planar SoCs, but the rollout of increasingly heterogeneous assemblies adds a variety of new challenges around the processing and movement of data. Nearly all of the chiplets in use today were designed in-house by large systems companies and IDMs. Going forward, third-party chiplets will begin... » read more

Ghostbusting With Simulation: Solving Engineering Challenges In Automotive Radar Development


Probably the biggest trick to the adoption of full autonomy in the automotive space is learning how to safely achieve a level of perception that matches that of a human driver. Carmakers are rising to the challenge with a combination of advanced camera, radar, and lidar sensing technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence that makes self-driving possible. This includes the adva... » read more

Why Chips Fail, And What To Do About It


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss reliability of chips in the context of safety- and mission-critical systems, as well as increasing utilization due to an explosion in AI data, with Steve Pateras, vice president of marketing and business development at Synopsys; Noam Brousard, vice president of solutions engineering at proteanTecs; Harry Foster, chief verificat... » read more

Automotive Design: How AI Is Transforming The Art Of Simulation


The automotive sector is about to experience a major wave of innovation as artificial intelligence (AI) is applied to design simulation, according to experts. The technology makes it possible to reduce the time needed to run the analyses for crash-test simulations — one of the most data-heavy exercises in automotive design — from several days to minutes. Read more here to learn about a p... » read more

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