Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 13 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled a fully automated processor chip design system, claiming the potential to accelerate semiconductor development and replace human programmers. Micron Technology plans to expand its U.S. investments to approximately $150 billion in domestic memory manufacturing and $50 billion in R&D, which is $30 billion higher than previously reported. AMD laun... » read more

RISC-V’s Increasing Influence

By Brian Bailey - 12 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 2

The industry is increasingly talking about benefits brought by the RISC-V architecture, but is it even the right starting point? While it may not be perfect, it may provide the flexibility necessary to move forward gradually. Computer architectures and software have followed in the footsteps of processors developed 80 years ago. They aimed to solve sequential, scalar arithmetic problems usin... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 23 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

Podcast: imec's roadmap and a one-on-one interview with the European research house's chief strategy officer. China's Xiaomi debuted an in-house-designed 10-core mobile SoC built on a 3nm process. The company did not identify the foundry. It also announced plans to invest 50 billion yuan (~$7B) over the next decade to develop high-end smartphone chips, as part of a 200 billion yuan (~$28B) c... » read more

Identifying Sources Of Silent Data Corruption

By Laura Peters - 08 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

Silent data errors are raising concerns in large data centers, where they can propagate through systems and wreak havoc on long-duration programs like AI training runs. SDEs, also called silent data corruption, are technically rare. But with many thousands of servers, which contain millions of processors running at high utilization rates, these damaging events become common in large fleets. ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 6

By Linda Christensen - 06 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=427 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Inference Framework For Deployment Challenges of Large Generative Models On GPUs (Google)

By Technical Paper Link - 03 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Scaling On-Device GPU Inference for Large Generative Models" was published by researchers at Google and Meta Platforms. Abstract "Driven by the advancements in generative AI, large machine learning models have revolutionized domains such as image processing, audio synthesis, and speech recognition. While server-based deployments remain the locus of peak perform... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 11 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

Don't have time to read this? Check out Semiconductor Engineering's Inside Chips podcast. The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating TSMC for potential export control violations involving Huawei chips, reports Reuters. The probe follows TechInsights' teardown of a Huawei AI accelerator chip last year. The foundry, meanwhile, maintains it has not shipped any chips to Huawei since 2020... » read more

Startup Funding: Q1 2025

By Jesse Allen - 02 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

The first quarter of 2025 saw six companies raise at least $100 million in investment. Of those, three went to quantum hardware companies, with major investment into neutral atom, superconducting, and hybrid quantum control approaches. AI chips and enabling technology were another big winner in the quarter, with companies developing optical communications tech for chips and data center infra... » read more

Big Changes Ahead For Interposers And Substrates

By Gregory Haley - 24 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 1

Interposers and substrates are undergoing a profound transformation from intermediaries to engineered platforms responsible for power distribution, thermal management, high-density interconnects, and signal integrity in the most advanced computing systems. This shift is being driven by AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and next-generation communications, where the need for heterogeneous ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 21 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor industry energy consumption grew 125% between 2015 and 2023, while direct greenhouse gas emissions rose 23% in the same period, according to the Europe think tank Interface, which analyzed corporate social responsibility reports from 28 global chip manufacturers. CSIS' new report "Understanding U.S. Allies’ Current Legal Authority to Implement AI and Semiconductor Export Cont... » read more

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