Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 25 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

Intel reported flat year-over year revenue for Q2, exceeding Wall Street's pessimistic expectations. In a message to employees, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company will: Cut about 15% of its staff, ending the year with about 75,000 employees, down from a high of nearly 132,000 in 2022; Scrap projects in Poland and Germany, consolidate other sites in central America and Southeast Asia, and s... » read more

Research Bits: June 3

By Jesse Allen - 03 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Imaging power electronics Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Harvard University, and Hitachi used diamond quantum sensors to analyze the magnetization response of soft magnetic materials used in power electronics. The method can simultaneously image both the amplitude and phase of AC stray fields over a wide frequency range up to 2.3 MHz. It uses a diamond quantum sensor with ... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Dec 11

By Liz Allan - 11 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=174 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Lego-Like Photonics Chip With Expanded RF Bandwidth And Advanced Filter Control

By Technical Paper Link - 05 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit” was published by researchers at University of Sydney and Australian National University. Abstract: "Microwave photonics (MWP) has unlocked a new paradigm for Radio Frequency (RF) signal processing by harnessing the inherent broadband and tu... » read more

Research Bits: April 5

By Jesse Allen - 05 Apr, 2022 - Comments: 0

Creating qubits in bulk Researchers from Intel and QuTech, an institute of the Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), built a qubit using standard semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The qubit is based on the spin of single electrons that are captured in a silicon nanoscale device, which resembles conventional transistors. ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 3

By Jesse Allen - 03 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 0

Optical device integration Researchers from the University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, and the Australian National University propose a way to place multiple micron-scale optical devices made from different materials close together on a single silicon chip. “The development of electronics that are based on silicon transistors has enabled increasingly more powerful and flexible ... » read more

Motional narrowing, ballistic transport, and trapping of room-temperature exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor

By Technical Paper Link - 10 Dec, 2021 - Comments: 0

Abstract "Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals (TMDCs) hold great promise for semiconductor optoelectronics because their bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) are stable at room temperature and interact strongly with light. When TMDCs are embedded in an optical microcavity, excitons can hybridise with cavity photons to form exciton polaritons, which inherit useful properties from... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 30

By Jesse Allen - 30 Nov, 2021 - Comments: 0

Universal decoding algorithm Researchers at MIT, Boston University, and Maynooth University built a silicon chip that is able to decode any error-correcting code, regardless of its structure, with maximum accuracy, using a universal decoding algorithm called Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND). Encoded data traveling over a network is susceptible to noise, which disrupts the sig... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Aug. 17

By Mark LaPedus - 17 Aug, 2021 - Comments: 0

Scaling qubits Australia is a hotbed of R&D activity, especially in the field of quantum computing. For example, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has demonstrated a possible way to control millions of qubits in a silicon quantum chip. Researchers from UNSW Sydney have devised a new three-dimensional dielectric resonator, a technology that could deliver controlled... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: June 1

By Jesse Allen - 01 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Stronger PUFs Researchers from Ohio State University and Potomac Research propose a new version of physical unclonable functions, or PUFs, that could be used to create secure ID cards, to track goods in supply chains, and as part of authentication applications. "There's a wealth of information in even the smallest differences found on computers chips that we can exploit to create PUFs," sai... » read more

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