Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 28


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=486 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Photonics as a Carbon-Sustainable Solution for Next-Gen AI Hardware (Boston Univ., NY CREATES, Lightmatter, Cornell Tech)


A new technical paper titled "Photonics for sustainable AI" was published by researchers at Boston University, NY CREATES, Lightmatter and Cornell Tech. Abstract "The rising computational demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving a rapid surge in carbon emissions from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Traditional CMOS-based computing is reaching its scali... » read more

Energy Analysis: 2D and 3D Architectures with Systolic Arrays and CIM (Cornell)


A new technical paper titled "Energy-/Carbon-Aware Evaluation and Optimization of 3D IC Architecture with Digital Compute-in-Memory Designs" was published by researchers at Cornell University. "In this paper, we investigate digital CIM (DCIM) macros and various 3D architectures to find the opportunity of increased energy efficiency compared to 2D structures. Moreover, we also investigated th... » read more