Chip Industry Week In Review


Chinese firms imported almost $26 billion worth of chipmaking machinery, according to fresh trade data released by China’s General Administration of Customs this week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry continued to show signs of improvement in Q2 2024 with significant growth of IC sales, stabilizing capital expenditure, and an increase in install... » read more

Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers Pose SW Security Threat By Breaking Cryptographic Implementations


A technical paper titled “GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers” was presented at the August 2024 USENIX Security Symposium by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, University of Washington, and Carnegie Mellon U... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 30


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library, including a best paper award winner at ISCA. [table id=246 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Co-optimizing HW Architecture, Memory Footprint, Device Placement And Per-Chip Operator Scheduling (Georgia Tech, Microsoft)


A technical paper titled “Integrated Hardware Architecture and Device Placement Search” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research. Abstract: "Distributed execution of deep learning training involves a dynamic interplay between hardware accelerator architecture and device placement strategy. This is the first work to explore the co-optimization ... » read more

A Design And Benchmarking Study Of CAM At 7nm In The Context Of Similarity Search Applications (Georgia Tech)


A technical paper titled “Cross-layer Modeling and Design of Content Addressable Memories in Advanced Technology Nodes for Similarity Search” was published by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Abstract: "In this paper we present a comprehensive design and benchmarking study of Content Addressable Memory (CAM) at the 7nm technology node in the context of similarity search... » read more

Research Bits: April 16


Tunable thermal conductivity in memristors Researchers from the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) and Forschungszentrum Juelich discovered that oxide-based memristive devices can demonstrate tunable thermal conductivity. Alongside the memristor's electrical resistive switching, a thermal resistive switching effect also occurs at the metal-oxide inte... » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 11


Ferroelectric nanosheets Engineers from the University of Sydney, RMIT University, University of New South Wales, and University of Technology Sydney created a liquid metal alloy of tin, zirconium, and hafnium. The alloy has a thin oxide layer crust that enables it to be used to harvest ultra-thin tin oxide nanosheets doped with hafnium zirconium oxide, which could then be 2D printed on a subs... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 5


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=201 /] » read more

Impact of Scaling and BEOL Technology Solutions At The 7nm Node On MRAM


A technical paper titled “Impact of Technology Scaling and Back-End-of-the-Line Technology Solutions on Magnetic Random-Access Memories” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. Abstract: "While magnetic random-access memories (MRAMs) are promising because of their nonvolatility, relatively fast speeds, and high endurance, there are major challenges in adopting the... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 6


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=187 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

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