Chip Industry Week in Review


Government funding/defunding NIST is terminating funding for the SMART USA Institute, a CHIPS Act research center focused on digital twins, prompting congressional concern that the decision disrupts active awards and weakens U.S. semiconductor R&D commitments. Korea Zinc was awarded $210M in CHIPS Act funding towards a new $6.6B Tennessee advanced smelter and minerals processing facility,... » read more

Analysis of EM Side Channel Attacks On Smartphones (Fraunhofer AISEC, BSI, TUM)


A new technical paper titled "Breaking ECDSA with Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks: Challenges and Practicality on Modern Smartphones" was published by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), German Federal Office for Information Security, and TU Munich. Abstract "Smartphones handle sensitive tasks such as messaging and payment and may soon sup... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 28


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=83 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us ... » read more

Security-Aware Compiler-Assisted Countermeasure to Mitigate Fault Attacks on RISC-V


A new technical paper titled "CompaSeC: A Compiler-Assisted Security Countermeasure to Address Instruction Skip Fault Attacks on RISC-V" was published by researchers at TU Munich and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC). Abstract "Fault-injection attacks are a risk for any computing system executing security-relevant tasks, such as a secure boot process. While ha... » read more