Auto Security Accelerates With Standardization And Certified Silicon


Key Takeaways The automotive sector is actively developing and delivering secure parts and features ranging from secure boot to encrypted data and in-network protections. The cost of a breach can involve everything from ransomware to liability and/or damage to a brand. New standards are being introduced to ensure security, and technology developers are integrating cybersecurity requi... » read more

New Automotive Architectures Are Shaking Up Processor And Memory Choices


Key Takeaways Assisted and autonomous driving require more data from more sensors, and much faster processing of some of that data. The shift to software-defined vehicles and centralized intelligence makes it easier to identify where the most advanced processors and memories are required, and where older and less expensive technologies can be deployed. Technologies that were largely ... » read more

Minimum Energy Per Query


Key Takeaways Extracting heat from a chip faster is a short-term fix to a bigger problem. The longer-term challenge is how to reduce the amount of energy used per query. Data movement, guardbanding, and software inefficiency are key targets for the future. Heat is a serious problem within AI chips, and it is limiting how much processing can be done. The solution is either to... » read more

Securing Hardware For The Quantum Era


Key Takeaways: Quantum threats to security are already real. Adversaries are already harvesting data that will be decrypted later by quantum computers. Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC may arrive as early as next year. Asymmetric encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC will become inadequate against quantum threats, while symmetric encryption (such as AES) is less vul... » read more

Will 2026 Be Dominated By AI?


Many opportunities and problems became highly interlinked in 2025, fueled by the historic growth in everything AI. But how close are we coming to breaking points, and what are people doing to mitigate them? That is the story that will unfold this year. AI's penetration into an increasing number of workloads is placing almost quadratic demands on compute, memory, interconnect, and the archite... » read more

Automotive Outlook: 2026


The automotive industry stands at a crossroads entering 2026, facing a complex interplay of global tariffs, evolving electric vehicle (EV) dynamics, and the infusion of AI into just about everything. As manufacturers and suppliers navigate recent financing shifts and regulatory changes, they also must address consumer concerns over EV affordability and range, OEM concerns over when to develo... » 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

Harnessing Silicon Lifecycle Management For Chip Security


Silicon lifecycle management is starting to be used in ways that extend well beyond its original mission of ensuring a chip functions to spec throughout its expected lifetime. While tracking aging effects and component failures are still important, the technology also is being deployed to proactively monitor, authenticate, and respond to potential threats in real-time. In fact, not applying ... » read more

PCI Express Test Overview


PCl Express, short for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, is a high-performance and high-bandwidth serial communication interconnect standard. First proposed by Intel and further developed by the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) in replacement of bus-based communication architecture, such as PCI, PCI Extended (PCI-X), and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)... » read more

An Entangled Heterarchy


For decades, a form of structural hierarchy has been the principal means of handling complexity in chip design. It's not always perfect, and there is no ideal way in which to divide and conquer because that would need to focus on the analysis being performed. In fact, most systems can be viewed from a variety of different hierarchies, equally correct, and together forming a heterarchy. The e... » read more

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