Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 20


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=432 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Effects Of Hardware Prefetchers For Scientific Application Kernels Running on High-End Processors


A new technical paper titled "Memory Prefetching Evaluation of Scientific Applications on A Modern HPC Arm-based Processor" was published by researchers at Jülich Supercomputing Centre and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Abstract "Memory prefetching is a well-known technique for mitigating the negative impact of memory access latencies on memory bandwidth. This problem has become more p... » 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

Machine Learning-Based IR Drop Prediction Approach


A new technical paper titled "Estimating Voltage Drop: Models, Features and Data Representation Towards a Neural Surrogate" was published by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Ericsson Research. ABSTRACT "Accurate estimation of voltage drop (IR drop) in modern Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) is highly time and resource demanding, due to the growing complex... » read more

Chip Industry Talent Shortage Drives Academic Partnerships


Universities around the world are forming partnerships with semiconductor companies and governments to help fill open and future positions, to keep curricula current and relevant, and to update and expand skills for working engineers. Talent shortages repeatedly have been cited as the number one challenge for the chip industry. Behind those concerns are several key drivers, and many more dom... » read more

Research Bits: May 16


Germanium-tin transistor Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, CEA-Leti, University of Leeds, Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, and RWTH Aachen University fabricated a new type of transistor from a germanium-tin alloy. Charge carriers can move faster in the material than in silicon or germanium, which enables lower voltages in operation. “The germanium–tin syst... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outlined its plan for a National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) to be created using a share of the $11 billion in funds from the CHIPS Act marked for research and development. While a large portion of the CHIPS Act investment is set to boost U.S. fabs and manufacturing capabilities, the NSTC aims to also support the design side, ... » read more

Research Bits: April 4


Wet-like plasma etching Researchers from Nagoya University and Hitachi developed a new etch method called wet-like plasma etching that combines the selectivity of wet etching with the controllability of dry etching. The researchers say the technique will make it possible to etch complex structures such as metal carbides consisting of titanium (Ti) and aluminum (Al), such as TiC or TiAlC, wh... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 28


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=89 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us p... » read more

Integrating MEMS with Standardized Silicon Photonics Technology


A new technical paper titled "Integrated silicon photonic MEMS" was published by researchers at EPFL, University of Sydney, CSEM, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Ghent University, Imec, and Tyndall National Institute. Abstract Excerpt "Here, we introduce a silicon photonic MEMS platform consisting of high-performance nano-opto-electromechanical devices fully integrated alongside standar... » read more

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