What Engineers Are Reading And Watching

By Brian Bailey - 26 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

By Brian Bailey And Ed Sperling An important indicator of where the chip industry is heading is what engineers are reading and what videos they are watching. While some subjects remain on top, such as the level of interest in the latest manufacturing technologies, other areas come and go. The stories with the biggest traffic numbers are almost identical to last year. Readers want to know wh... » read more

The Next New Memories

By Mark LaPedus - 15 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 2

Several next-generation memory types are ramping up after years of R&D, but there are still more new memories in the research pipeline. Today, several next-generation memories, such as MRAM, phase-change memory (PCM) and ReRAM, are shipping to one degree or another. Some of the next new memories are extensions of these technologies. Others are based on entirely new technologies or involve ar... » read more

Will In-Memory Processing Work?

By Brian Bailey - 16 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 1

The cost associated with moving data in and out of memory is becoming prohibitive, both in terms of performance and power, and it is being made worse by the data locality in algorithms, which limits the effectiveness of cache. The result is the first serious assault on the von Neumann architecture, which for a computer was simple, scalable and modular. It separated the notion of a computatio... » read more

Enabling Practical Processing in and near Memory for Data-Intensive Computing

By Technical Paper Link - 23 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

Source: ETH Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University Talk at DAC 2019. Technical Paper link » read more

Power, Reliability And Security In Packaging

By Ed Sperling - 19 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss advanced packaging with Ajay Lalwani, vice president of global manufacturing operations at eSilicon; Vic Kulkarni, vice president and chief strategist in the office of the CTO at ANSYS; Calvin Cheung, vice president of engineering at ASE; Walter Ng, vice president of business management at UMC; and Tien Shiah, senior manager for memory at Samsun... » read more

HBM2 Vs. GDDR6: Tradeoffs In DRAM

By Ed Sperling - 13 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about new DRAM options and considerations with Frank Ferro, senior director of product management at Rambus; Marc Greenberg, group director for product marketing at Cadence; Graham Allan, senior product marketing manager for DDR PHYs at Synopsys; and Tien Shiah, senior manager for memory marketing at Samsung Electronics. What follows are excerpts of th... » read more

DAC 2019: Day 2

By Brian Bailey - 05 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

Day two of DAC started off with a highly anticipated keynote given by Thomas Dolby, musician, producer and innovator. Dolby has always been fascinated with the convergence of music and technology. He started off with a fanfare by balancing a broom on his finger to demonstrate the type of control we have as human beings. He went on to expand the analogy to the hive mind of groups of individuals,... » read more

New Memory Options

By Ed Sperling - 28 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

Carlos Macián, eSilicon’s senior director of AI strategy and products, talks about how to utilize memory differently and reduce the movement of data in AI chips, and what impact that has on power and performance. https://youtu.be/wItp6wReVts » read more

In-Memory Vs. Near-Memory Computing

By Mark LaPedus - 21 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

New memory-centric chip technologies are emerging that promise to solve the bandwidth bottleneck issues in today’s systems. The idea behind these technologies is to bring the memory closer to the processing tasks to speed up the system. This concept isn’t new and the previous versions of the technology fell short. Moreover, it’s unclear if the new approaches will live up to their billi... » read more

In-Memory Computing Challenges Come Into Focus

By Katherine Derbyshire - 06 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 6

For the last several decades, gains in computing performance have come by processing larger volumes of data more quickly and with superior precision. Memory and storage space are measured in gigabytes and terabytes now, not kilobytes and megabytes. Processors operate on 64-bit rather than 8-bit chunks of data. And yet the semiconductor industry’s ability to create and collect high quality ... » read more

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