Chip Industry Week In Review


By Susan Rambo, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan SRC unfurled its Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging (MAPT) industry-wide 3D semiconductor roadmap, addressing such topics as advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, energy efficiency, security, the related foundational ecosystem, and more. The guidance is the collective effort of 300 individuals ... » read more

Chip Industry Talent Shortage Drives Academic Partnerships


Universities around the world are forming partnerships with semiconductor companies and governments to help fill open and future positions, to keep curricula current and relevant, and to update and expand skills for working engineers. Talent shortages repeatedly have been cited as the number one challenge for the chip industry. Behind those concerns are several key drivers, and many more dom... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: June 20


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=112 /] » read more

SB MOSFET-Based Ultra-Low Power Real-Time Neurons for Neuromorphic Computing (Indian Institute of Technology)


A technical paper titled “Schottky Barrier MOSFET Enabled Ultra-Low Power Real-Time Neuron for Neuromorphic Computing” was published by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Abstract: "Energy-efficient real-time synapses and neurons are essential to enable large-scale neuromorphic computing. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate the Schottky-Barrier MOSFE... » read more