Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals IBM and Arm are collaborating on a new dual‑architecture hardware aimed at enterprise AI and data-intensive workloads, using virtualization to boost reliability, security, scalability, and software compatibility. The goal, according to an IBM spokesperson, is to deliver side-by-side deployments of S390x-Linux and Arm-Linux virtual machines in a single kernel-based hypervisor. Nv... » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 9


Low noise clock generator Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) designed a low power semiconductor circuit capable of generating high-quality clock signals with significantly reduced noise levels. The injection-locked clock multiplier (ILCM) circuit uses a simplified design based on a ring voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). It integrates a frequency t... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 9


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations FHECore: Rethinking GPU Microarchitecture for Fully Homomorphic Encryption 🔗 Boston University, Northeastern University, KAIST, University of Murcia Heterogeneous Memory Design Exploration for AI Accelerators with a Gain Cell Memory Compiler ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 3


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations AutoGNN: End-to-End Hardware-Driven Graph Preprocessing for Enhanced GNN Performance 🔗 KAIST, Panmnesia, Peking University, Hanyang University, Pennsylvania State University Sputtering-driven formation of interstitial oxygen for intrinsic NIR detec... » read more

Oxide-Semiconductors For Gain Cell Memory Applications (SNU, KAIST)


Researchers from Seoul National University and KAIST published “Oxide Semiconductor Gain Cell-Embedded Memory: Materials and Integration Strategies for Next Generation On-Chip Memory”. Abstract “The data processing demands of the digital era have exposed limitations in conventional memory architectures. Gain cell-embedded dynamic random-access memory based on oxide semiconductor... » read more

A GPU Microarchitecture Optimized for Fully Homomorphic Encryption


Researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University, KAIST, and University of Murcia, et al. have released “FHECore: Rethinking GPU Microarchitecture for Fully Homomorphic Encryption”. Abstract“Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation directly on encrypted data but incurs massive computational and memory overheads, often exceeding plaintext execution by seve... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Big Deals and Fundings Rapidus secured US$1.7B in a new funding round from the Japanese government and the private sector to ramp 2nm production by next year. Open AI announced a $110B in new funding, with $30B from Nvidia, $30B from Softbank and $50B from Amazon. In a $100B multi-year deal, Meta will power its AI infrastructure with up to 6GW of AMD's GPUs. SambaNova and Intel ar... » read more

An FPGA-based Accelerator Addressing Bottlenecks in GNN Preprocessing (KAIST et al.)


A new technical paper "AutoGNN: End-to-End Hardware-Driven Graph Preprocessing for Enhanced GNN Performance" was published by researchers at KAIST, Panmnesia, Peking University, Hanyang University, and Pennsylvania State University. Abstract "Graph neural network (GNN) inference faces significant bottlenecks in preprocessing, which often dominate overall inference latency. We introduce Au... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 24


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=525 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


The IEEE ISSCC conference was held this week in San Francisco. Among the highlights: IBM detailed an AI accelerator based on its new inferencing dataflow architecture. CEA-Leti presented a chip-scale, ultra-fast, battery-operated EPR spectrometer. QuTech introduced a cryo-CMOS SoC with NV centers in diamond. UTokyo showed its low-jitter PLL architecture for beyond 5G/6G. Imec d... » read more

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