Chip Industry Week In Review


Dealmaking Amkor inked a 10-year agreement with TSMC to provide advanced packaging and test services in Arizona, tying TSMC’s U.S. fab expansion to domestic OSAT capacity. Trump said in a post that Apple will partner with Intel on chip design and production in the U.S., marking a second reported win for the chipmaker this month. Intel Foundry will also reportedly manufacture 3 million... » read more

VLSI 2026: Intel 18A Platform Momentum From Devices To Routed Designs


Intel Foundry’s process technology roadmap is powered by innovations that are enabling customers to build increasingly capable products for the artificial intelligence (AI) era. At the 2026 IEEE/JSAP Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, Intel Foundry presented progress on a number of important aspects of our front-end silicon process innovations. This includes Intel 18A-P featurin... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Notable deals Cadence and Intel Foundry inked a multi-year agreement to advance design technology co-optimization and create PDKs for Intel Foundry's 14A process. Nvidia and SK hynix announced a multi-year partnership to co-develop memory technology for AI infrastructure and physical AI. Teradyne unveiled an integrated test cell solution with TEL that supports known-good device scree... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations DTCO of NOR-Type IGZO FeFETs for 3D Heterogeneous AI Memories: A Read-Centric Perspective 🔗 imec, KU Leuven ZK-Flex: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs 🔗 KAIST Thermal- and Aging-Aware Rowhamme... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Computex in Taiwan: Arm and Nvidia introduced an AI PC platform, RTX Spark, with an Arm-based Grace CPU, Blackwell RTX GPU, and unified memory. Cadence announced a fully autonomous virtual agentic AI design engineer, enabling customers to run dynamic simulations in automated workflows. Intel launched Xeon 6+, its first data-center CPU built on Intel Foundry's 18A process. The company... » read more

Packaging Technologies Redefine AI And HPC Scalability Limits At ECTC 2026


The 2026 IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) showcased how advanced packaging can redefine the scalability limits of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). Across 20 technical papers, Intel Foundry engineers and collaborators highlighted breakthrough innovations — from Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge-T (EMIB-T) enabling large multi-d... » read more

GaN Power Devices Power Up


Key Takeaways: GaN devices are gaining traction due to their ability to tolerate higher voltages. New approaches such as chiplets offer faster switching with less loss. The first applications to benefit from GaN will be low-voltage consumer devices; industrial applications require more work. As electrical power displaces fossil fuels in more applications, system designers ne... » read more

Using Graph Attention for Virtual Metrology in Semiconductor Manufacturing (Intel Foundry, ASU)


Researchers from Arizona State University and Intel Foundry have published “Graph Attention-Based Virtual Metrology for Film Deposition Processes in Semiconductor Manufacturing”. Abstract “Artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor manufacturing increasingly operates at nanometer and angstrom scales, where precise process control depends on accurate and timely metrology. Howeve... » read more

The Sub-2nm Paradox


Key Takeaways: Process variation and physics are changing semiconductor design, manufacturing, and economics at 2nm and below. Even though new manufacturing processes are being introduced, it's taking longer for them to mature. The focus for many chip designs is faster data movement and more efficient computing, rather than just relying on more transistors per mm2. At 2nm an... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


ECTC Panel-level packaging, hybrid bonding, new substrates, and fine-pitch interconnects topped the list of advanced packaging technologies at ECTC this week. Among the announcements: ASE launched an automated 310mm × 310mm panel-level packaging production line. Expected to enter production in the first half of 2027, the line is compatible with FOCoS and FOCoS-Bridge pa... » read more

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