Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 10


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=412 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

The Optical Implementation of Backpropagation (Oxford, Lumai)


A technical paper titled "Training neural networks with end-to-end optical backpropagation" was published by researchers at University of Oxford and Lumai Ltd. Abstract "Optics is an exciting route for the next generation of computing hardware for machine learning, promising several orders of magnitude enhancement in both computational speed and energy efficiency. However, reaching the full... » read more

Startup Funding: February 2023


The cost of borrowing is going up, but investors continued to pour money into the chip industry in February. Collectively, 132 companies raised more than $4.5 billion last month. One of the big beneficiaries was quantum computing, with nine companies drawing a total of more than $500 million. The bulk of that went to a quantum software and services company spun out of Alphabet, but plenty wa... » read more