Chip Industry Week In Review


Notable deals Cadence and Intel Foundry inked a multi-year agreement to advance design technology co-optimization and create PDKs for Intel Foundry's 14A process. Nvidia and SK hynix announced a multi-year partnership to co-develop memory technology for AI infrastructure and physical AI. Teradyne unveiled an integrated test cell solution with TEL that supports known-good device scree... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations DTCO of NOR-Type IGZO FeFETs for 3D Heterogeneous AI Memories: A Read-Centric Perspective 🔗 imec, KU Leuven ZK-Flex: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs 🔗 KAIST Thermal- and Aging-Aware Rowhamme... » read more

Flexible AI-MCU For Fast Inference of Transformer Models At The Ultra-Low-Power Edge (ETH Zurich, U. Bologna)


Researchers from ETH Zurich and University of Bologna have released “CHIMERA: A Flexible and Scalable 3.1 TOPS/W AI-MCU with Transformer Accelerator and 563 Gb/s Shared-L2 Memory Subsystem with QoS Guarantees”. Abstract “We present Chimera, a flexible and scalable Microcontroller Unit (MCU) designed to accelerate real-time inference of rapidly evolving transformer-based models a... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Global The U.S. created a licensing path for Nvidia H200 shipments in January and has since approved sales to 10 Chinese companies, but so far no shipments have been confirmed, reports Reuters. With a looming end-of-year expiration, SIA, SEMI, and other business groups are urging Congress to extend the US semiconductor tax credit and expand it to cover semiconductor design and other act... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Advanced nodes and capacity The US Commerce Dept. told IC equipment makers to stop shipments to Hua Hong Group, China's No. 2 chipmaker, in order to protect America's lead, according to Reuters. Global AI competition is causing wafer and packaging shortages, but capacity increases are expected to come online later this year and in 2027 to ease the crunch, according to TrendForce. Leadi... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Acquisitions and business pivots Teradyne acquired Israel-based TestInsight, a semiconductor test provider with pattern conversion, validation, and virtual test capabilities. Credo plans to acquire DustPhotonics, a developer of silicon photonics PICs for optical transceivers. Molex plans to acquire Teramount, a provider of detachable, passive-alignment fiber-to-chip connectivity solu... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals IBM and Arm are collaborating on a new dual‑architecture hardware aimed at enterprise AI and data-intensive workloads, using virtualization to boost reliability, security, scalability, and software compatibility. The goal, according to an IBM spokesperson, is to deliver side-by-side deployments of S390x-Linux and Arm-Linux virtual machines in a single kernel-based hypervisor. Nv... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 31


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations DiscoRD: An Experimental Methodology for Quickly Discovering the Reliable Read Disturbance Threshold of Real DRAM Chips 🔗 ETH Zurich, Rutgers University Performance Analysis of Edge and In-Sensor AI Processors: A Comparative Review 🔗 Univ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 24


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations NL2GDS: LLM-aided interface for Open Source Chip Design 🔗 University of Bristol, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory An Integrated Failure and Threat Mode and Effect Analysis (FTMEA) Framework with Quantified Cross-Domain Correlation Factors for Automot... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


War impacts The Iran War's toll on the chip industry is widening. Over 95% of Taiwan's energy is imported, causing the country to secure alternative sources. Korea is also heavily dependent on energy imports from the Middle East. Shortages of key materials are cropping up everywhere. Helium from Qatar, the second largest producer behind the U.S., is constrained by hostilities in the Per... » read more

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