AFM-Based Protocol for Characterizing the Incipient Stages of Plasticity on Hybrid Bonding-Ready Copper Pads (NIST, Intel, Colorado School of Mines)


A new technical paper titled "Probing the Nanoscale Onset of Plasticity in Electroplated Copper for Hybrid Bonding Structures via Multimodal Atomic Force Microscopy" was published by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Intel, and Colorado School of Mines. Excerpt  "The slowdown of Moore’s law has elicited a paradigm shift whereby shrinking of in-plane dim... » read more

When To Move To Multi-Die Assemblies


As chip designs become larger and more complex, especially for AI and high-performance computing workloads, it's often not feasible to fit everything onto a single planar die. But determining when to move to a multi-die assembly isn't always straightforward. Multi-die approaches have some well-documented benefits. They allow designers to split functions across different dies, which can impro... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Deals of the week: Arteris announced plans to acquire cybersecurity provider Cycuity. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement,” said Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of Arteris. Qualcomm acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a maker of RISC-V data center-class CPU IP. ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 2


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=497 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Comprehensive Performance Bound and Bottleneck Analysis Of Neuromorphic Accelerators (Harvard, Politecnico di Torino, Intel et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Modeling and Optimizing Performance Bottlenecks for Neuromorphic Accelerators" was published by researchers at Harvard University, Politecnico di Torino, Intel, LMU Munich, Accenture Labs, BootLoop AI, TU Delft and Wordly. Abstract "Neuromorphic accelerators offer promising platforms for machine learning (ML) inference by leveraging event-driven, spatially-expa... » read more

New Panel Production Efforts Target Interposer Costs


The rising cost of increasingly large interposers is spurring renewed interest in panel-level manufacturing, which for years has hobbled along due to the massive and collective effort required by the chip industry to change formats. Several companies are developing their own processes, although there is currently no commercial production. And a new consortium called Joint3, spearheaded by Ja... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Samsung reportedly is hiking memory chip prices by 30% to 60% due to high demand from AI data centers and constrained supplies. Those shortages are causing ripples elsewhere. SMIC, China's largest foundry, said its customers are holding back orders for other types of semiconductor due to concerns about memory supplies. Meanwhile, interest in photonics and power semiconductors is picking up, ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 4


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=488 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

SOT-Based MRAM Design At 7nm (Georgia Tech, Intel)


A new technical paper titled "Comprehensive device to system co-design for SOT-MRAM at the 7nm node" was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Intel. Abstract "This work presents a comprehensive spin-orbit torque (SOT) based random access memory (MRAM) design at the 7nm technology node, spanning from device-level characteristics to system-level power performance ar... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Retaliations and countermoves leading up to planned trade talks between the U.S. and China led experts to wonder, 'Who's winning?' New activity on this front: China issued questionnaires to some U.S. semiconductor firms as part of an anti-dumping probe, demanding detailed data on sales, profit margins, logistics costs and Chinese customer names for analog chips. The probe appears aimed at ... » read more

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