Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 7


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=480 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here » read more

New Spectre Branch Target Injection, Spectre-BTI, Attack Primitives On CPUs (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract “Virtualization is a cornerstone of modern cloud infrastructures, providing the required isolation to customers. This isolation, however, is threatened by speculative execution attacks which the CPU vendors att... » read more

Security Technical Paper Roundup: Sept. 30


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at the August 2025 USENIX Security Symposium. The organization provides open access research, and the presentation slides and papers are free to the public. Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses, embedded security, fuzzing, fault injection, rowhammer, and more. Here are some highlights with associated links: [ta... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Amkor, TSMC, and Cadence partnered with Tesoro VC, which will serve as the lead operator of a new Global AI + Semiconductor Startup Hub and a Global Design Center in Phoenix, Arizona, aimed at chip innovation, startup growth, and advanced manufacturing. Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel common stock at a purchase price of $23.28 per share and the companies will collaborate on AI infrastru... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=477 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Compromising Spectre v2 HW Mitigations By Exploiting BPRC (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "Branch Privilege Injection: Compromising Spectre v2 Hardware Mitigations by Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Presented at USENIX Security Symposium in August 2025. Abstract "Modern branch predictors prevent Spectre v2 attacks by associating predictions with the privilege domain they should be restricted to... » 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

Tools, Models and System Support for PIM Architectures, With DRAM-Focus (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "New Tools, Programming Models, and System Support for Processing-in-Memory Architectures" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract "Our goal in this dissertation is to provide tools, programming models, and system support for PIM architectures (with a focus on DRAM-based solutions), to ease the adoption of PIM in current and future systems. To this ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: August 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=467 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


The EU’s tariffs on semiconductors will not exceed 15%, according to Trump’s latest trade deal. In addition, the EU committed to purchasing at least $40 billion worth of U.S. AI chips as well as other investments. [FAQ is here.] Lifelines for Intel: Intel inked a deal to sell the U.S. government a 10% non-voting equity stake in its business, worth $8.9 billion. The stake will be fun... » read more

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