Chip Industry Week In Review


Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the tech world and U.S. stock market with claims it spent just $5.6 million on compute power for its AI model compared to its billion-dollar rivals in the U.S. The announcement raised questions about U.S. investment strategies in AI infrastructure and led to an initial $600 billion selloff of NVIDIA stock. Since its launch, DeepSeek reportedly was hit by malicio... » read more

Apple CPU Attacks: SLAP and FLOP (Georgia Tech, Ruhr University Bochum)


Two technical papers were published by researchers at Georgia Tech and Ruhr University Bochum detailing CPU side-channel attack vulnerabilities on Apple devices that could reveal confidential data. FLOP: Breaking the Apple M3 CPU via False Load Output Predictions"  Authors: Jason Kim, Jalen Chuang, Daniel Genkin and Yuval Yarom 2025. "We present FLOP, another speculative execution att... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 20


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=398 /] Find all technical papers here. » read more

Design-Space Analysis of M3D FPGA With BEOL Configuration Memories (Georgia Tech, UCLA)


A new technical paper titled "Monolithic 3D FPGAs Utilizing Back-End-of-Line Configuration Memories" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech and UCLA. Abstract "This work presents a novel monolithic 3D (M3D) FPGA architecture that leverages stackable back-end-of-line (BEOL) transistors to implement configuration memory and pass gates, significantly improving area, latency, and power ef... » read more

AI Accelerators for Homomorphic Encryption Workloads


A new technical paper titled "Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech, MIT, Google and Cornell University. Abstract: "Cloud-based services are making the outsourcing of sensitive client data increasingly common. Although homomorphic encryption (HE) offers strong privacy guarantee, it requires substantially more resources than compu... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 25


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=386 /] » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 29


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=375 /] More Reading Chip Industry Week In Review Intel’s EU court win; high-NA benchmarks and new maskless litho; SiC down, GaN up; Natcast’s plan; Xiaomi’s 3nm chip; semi tax credit rules; RISC-V; lithium mine; AI-edge expansion. Technical Paper Library home » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Europe's top court ruled in Intel's favor, voiding a $1.1 billion fine imposed by the European Union and dismissing charges of anti-competitive behavior. IBM released yield benchmarks for high-NA EUV, which serve as proof points that the newest advanced litho equipment will enable scaling beyond the 2nm process node. Also on the lithography front, Nikon is developing a maskless digital litho... » read more

Current and Emerging Heterogeneous Integration Technologies For High-Performance Systems (Georgia Tech)


A technical paper titled "Heterogeneous Integration Technologies for Artificial Intelligence Applications" was published by Georgia Tech. Abstract "The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has been enabled by semiconductor-based electronics. However, the conventional methods of transistor scaling are not enough to meet the exponential demand for computing power driven by AI. ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Arm joined forces with Korea's Samsung Foundry, ADTechnology, and Rebellions to create a CPU chiplet platform for AI training and inference. The new chiplet will be based on Samsung's 2nm gate-all-around technology. Intel and AMD, arch competitors for decades, formed an x86 ecosystem advisory group to collaborate on architectural interoperability and simplify software development. Samsung... » read more

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