Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Apr. 29


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=424 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Controlled Shared Memory For Dynamically Controlling Data Communication Via Shared Memory Approaches (ASU, Intel)


A new technical paper titled "Controlled Shared Memory (COSM) Isolation: Design and Testbed Evaluation" was published by researchers at Arizona State University and Intel Corporation. Abstract "Recent memory sharing approaches, e.g., based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, allow the flexible high-speed sharing of data (i.e., data communication) among multiple hosts. In information... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


To listen to the podcast version, click here. TSMC unveiled an unusually detailed roadmap at this week's North America Technology Symposium, including future architectures for 3D-ICs for high-performance computing and small, extremely low-power chips for AR/VR glasses, and two implementations of system-on-wafer. Fig. 1: TSMC's future packaging and stacking roadmap. Source: TSMC The ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


[Podcast version is here.] TSMC said it will produce 30% of its leading-edge chips in Arizona when all six of its fabs are operational, a total investment of $165 billion, Axios reported. In its latest SEC filing, the foundry said it continues to add capacity in Taiwan, Arizona, Japan, and Germany. The Trump administration launched a Section 232 investigation into semiconductors and relat... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Check out our new Inside Chips podcast. President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs were announced this week. The executive order stated that semiconductors and copper imports are not directly subject to the reciprocal tariff, although the exemption may be short-lived. Semiconductor equipment and tools were not mentioned, leaving the industry searching for clarification. Regardless, hig... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


The Malaysian government signed a deal with Arm to kickstart a chip design ecosystem. Until now, Malaysia has focused on packaging and test. Adding chip design represents a major change in focus. The country will pay SoftBank $250 million over 10 years for Arm’s chip design IP and train 10,000 engineers. Global chip sales reached $56 billion in January, up nearly 18% from the same period i... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 4


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=410 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

3D Stacked Device Architecture Enabled By BEOL-Compatible Transistors (Stanford et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Omni 3D: BEOL-Compatible 3-D Logic With Omnipresent Power, Signal, and Clock" was published by researchers at Stanford University, Intel Corporation and Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract "This article presents Omni 3D—a 3-D-stacked device architecture that is naturally enabled by back-end-of-line (BEOL)-compatible transistors. Omni 3D interleaves metal lay... » read more

Mixed-Precision DL Inference, Co-Designed With HW Accelerator DPU (Intel)


A new technical paper titled "StruM: Structured Mixed Precision for Efficient Deep Learning Hardware Codesign" was published by Intel. Abstract "In this paper, we propose StruM, a novel structured mixed-precision-based deep learning inference method, co-designed with its associated hardware accelerator (DPU), to address the escalating computational and memory demands of deep learning worklo... » read more

CXL’s Potential to Elevate The Capabilities of HPC and AI Applications (Micron, Intel)


A new technical paper titled "Optimizing System Memory Bandwidth with Micron CXL Memory Expansion Modules on Intel Xeon 6 Processors" was published by researchers at Micron and Intel. Abstract "High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads typically demand substantial memory bandwidth and, to a degree, memory capacity. CXL memory expansion modules, also known... » read more

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