Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept. 3


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=256 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 30


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library, including a best paper award winner at ISCA. [table id=246 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Co-optimizing HW Architecture, Memory Footprint, Device Placement And Per-Chip Operator Scheduling (Georgia Tech, Microsoft)


A technical paper titled “Integrated Hardware Architecture and Device Placement Search” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research. Abstract: "Distributed execution of deep learning training involves a dynamic interplay between hardware accelerator architecture and device placement strategy. This is the first work to explore the co-optimization ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Mar. 11


Reading qubits faster Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland propose a faster way to read information from qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. Currently, they are extremely sensitive to disruption even in cryogenic environments, holding quantum information for less than a millisecond. In the method now used to read information from a qubit... » read more

The Week in Review: IoT


Products/Services Vancouver, B.C.-based Riot Micro has brought out the RM1000 baseband modem chip for the cellular Internet of Things. The device is said to use Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi techniques to provide low-power and lower-cost connectivity, like short-range wireless systems. The chip is being marketed to module manufacturers and OEMs developing narrowband IoT and LTE-M products for... » read more

System Bits: Aug. 30


Probing photon-electron interactions According to Rice University researchers, where light and matter intersect, the world illuminates; where they interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics. Here, the team is closing in on a way to create a new condensed matter state in which all the electrons in a material act as one by manipulating them with light and a... » read more