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

Overview: Ultra Ethernet’s Design and Architectural Advancements (ETH Zurich, Broadcom, HPE et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Ultra Ethernet's Design Principles and Architectural Innovations" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and Cisco. Abstract "The recently released Ultra Ethernet (UE) 1.0 specification defines a transformative High-Performance Ethernet standard for future Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: August 19


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=465 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Low-Latency Interconnect for Close-Coupled On-Chip Communication With Error Correction Code Protection (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "relOBI: A Reliable Low-latency Interconnect for Tightly-Coupled On-chip Communication" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Excerpt "On-chip communication is a critical element of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), allowing processor cores to interact with memory and peripherals. Interconnects require special care in radiation-heavy environments, as any soft... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 22


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=456 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Analysis of RISC-V CPU Fuzzers via Automatic Bug Injection (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "Encarsia: Evaluating CPU Fuzzers via Automatic Bug Injection" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract "Hardware fuzzing has recently gained momentum with many discovered bugs in open-source RISC-V CPU designs. Comparing the effectiveness of different hardware fuzzers, however, remains a challenge: each fuzzer optimizes for a different metric and ... » read more

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