Chip Industry Week In Review


Geopolitics U.S. lawmakers are urging tighter export controls on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) to China, warning existing loopholes threaten national security. "China is working to build domestic SME by exploiting access to U.S. and allied subcomponents required to produce tools," states the letter, which also says better coordination with allies is essential. The U.S.... » read more

Automotive Week In Review


Quick links: Automotive chips, Autonomous, EVs, Batteries, Policy, Research. Automotive chips  Mythic and Honda will jointly develop an automotive-grade AI SoC for Honda’s SDVs that leverages Mythic’s energy-efficient analog compute-in-memory technology. ST released a new MCU with AI acceleration for the automotive edge, integrating an embedded neural network accelerator. I... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan 6


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=510 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Channel-Last GAA NS Oxide FET (Stanford, TSMC, ETH Zurich et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Channel-last gate-all-around nanosheet oxide semiconductor transistors" was published by researchers at Stanford University, TSMC, ETH Zurich, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Polish Academy of Sciences. Abstract "As we move beyond the era of transistor miniaturization, back-end-of-line-compatible transistors that can be stacked monolithically in the t... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals: NVIDIA inked a $20B non-exclusive licensing deal with Groq for its inference technology. The startup's founder, Jonathan Ross, and some other employees will join NVIDIA to assist in scaling and advancing the technology. The non-exclusive licensing deal, versus an outright purchase, is a tool other companies have used to avoid antitrust regulation. Samsung Ventures made a strategic inv... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec 22


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=506 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here and in the most recent Chip Industry Week in Review. » read more

Data-Centric ML Compiler For PIM (U. of Toronto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ETH Zurich, Max Planck)


A new technical paper titled "A Tensor Compiler for Processing-In-Memory Architectures" was published by researchers at University of Toronto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ETH Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Abstract "Processing-In-Memory (PIM) devices integrated with high-performance Host processors (e.g., GPUs) can accelerate memory-intensive kernels in Ma... » 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

Scalable Fabrication of Nano-OLEDs Smaller Than The Defraction Limit (ETH Zurich, U. of Alberta, IISc)


A technical paper titled "Scalable nanopatterning of organic light-emitting diodes beyond the diffraction limit" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, University of Alberta, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Abstract: "Miniaturization of light-emitting diodes below the diffraction limit of the emission wavelength can enable super-r... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 2


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=497 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

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