Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 20 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Texas Instruments will invest more than $60 billion to build and expand seven semiconductor fabs in Texas and Utah, supporting more than 60,000 U.S. jobs. Chinese automakers — including SAIC Motor, Changan, Great Wall Motor, BYD, Li Auto and Geely — are aiming to launch new models with 100% homemade chips, some as early as 2026, reports Nikkei Asia. Marvell introduced 2nm custom SRAM ... » read more

Power Delivery Challenges For AI Chips

By Gregory Haley - 19 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads grow larger and more complex, the various processing elements being developed to process all that data are demanding unprecedented levels of power. But delivering this power efficiently and reliably, without degrading signal integrity or introducing thermal bottlenecks, has created some of the toughest design and manufacturing challenges in semiconducto... » read more

Reaction Mechanisms in a Chemically Amplified EUV Photoresist (imec, KU Leuven)

By Technical Paper Link - 18 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Unraveling the Reaction Mechanisms in a Chemically Amplified EUV Photoresist from a Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach" was published by researchers at imec and KU Leuven. "Our combined experimental and theoretical approach shows that EUV photoemission can simultaneously resolve chemical dynamics and the production of primary and secondary electrons,... » read more

Research Bits: June 17

By Jesse Allen - 17 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Superlattice castellated FETs Researchers from the University of Bristol and Northrop Grumman Mission Systems discovered a latch-effect in gallium nitride (GaN) that could lead to improved radio frequency device performance, crucial for enabling 6G devices. “We have piloted a device technology, working with collaborators, called superlattice castellated field effect transistors (SLCFETs),... » read more

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

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 9

By Linda Christensen - 09 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=438 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 06 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Qualcomm announced plans to buy Alphawave Semi for ~$2.4 billion in a deal expected to close in Q1 2026. Qualcomm plans to leverage Alphawave Semi's connectivity products, including chiplets, to develop high-performance, low-power solutions for AI inferencing and customized CPUs in data centers. Qualcomm's traditional targets were mobile phones and edge computing. [Updated 6/9.] Global semic... » read more

Integration of High-Density Polymer Waveguides With Silicon Photonics for CPO (imec, Ghent)

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

A technical paper titled "Low-Loss Integration of High-Density Polymer Waveguides with Silicon Photonics for Co-Packaged Optics" was published by researchers at imec and Ghent University. Abstract "Co-Packaged Optics applications require scalable and high-yield optical interfacing solutions to silicon photonic chiplets, offering low-loss, broadband, and polarization-independent optical coup... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 30 May, 2025 - Comments: 1

The U.S. Commerce Department is tightening controls on EDA software sold to China by imposing additional license requirements. EDA companies are assessing the impact. Details on how broad the restrictions will be are still pending. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will require Synopsys and Ansys to divest key software assets — including optical, photonic, and RTL power analysis tool... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 28

By Linda Christensen - 28 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=434 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

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