Chip Industry Week In Review


Arm uncorked its first internally developed CPU chip this week, aimed squarely at the agentic AI data center market. Arm CEO Rene Haas (pictured) emphasized the CPU's power efficiency and performance/watt compared to other AI processor architectures. "We are obsessed with efficiency, and if you think about one of the biggest appeals that Arm has had over the years, it is power profile," he ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=499 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here and in the most recent Chip Industry Week in Review.   » read more

Role of Elastomer Structure in Blending Strategy for Stretchable Semiconducting Thin Films (CAS, RIKEN)


A new technical report titled "Polymer semiconductor blends with remarkably stable semiconducting performance under large and cyclic mechanical deformation" was published by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. The paper states: "We report deformable blend thin films of polymer semiconductors with PDPPTT (p-type) and N2200 (n-type) as the ex... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=471 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Wafer-Scale Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Tantalate Films on Low-Loss Silicon Nitride Photonic ICs (EPFL, KIT, CAS, IPQ)


A new technical paper titled "Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications" was published by researchers at EPFL, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IPQ and KIT. Abstract "Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing incre... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 7


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=445 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Accelerator Architecture For In-Memory Computation of CNN Inferences Using Racetrack Memory


A new technical paper titled "Hardware-software co-exploration with racetrack memory based in-memory computing for CNN inference in embedded systems" was published by researchers at National University of Singapore, A*STAR, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Abstract "Deep neural networks generate and process large volumes of data, posing challe... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 17


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=440 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled a fully automated processor chip design system, claiming the potential to accelerate semiconductor development and replace human programmers. Micron Technology plans to expand its U.S. investments to approximately $150 billion in domestic memory manufacturing and $50 billion in R&D, which is $30 billion higher than previously reported. AMD laun... » read more

Fully Automated Hardware And Software Design Of Processor Chips (Chinese Academy Of Sciences)


A new technical paper titled "QiMeng: Fully Automated Hardware and Software Design for Processor Chip" was published by researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Abstract "Processor chip design technology serves as a key frontier driving breakthroughs in computer science and related fields. With the rapid advancement of information technology, conventional design paradigms face three majo... » read more

← Older posts