Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 16 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

Check out the Inside Chips podcast for our behind-the-scenes analysis. Newly proposed U.S. legislation called the Chip Security Act would use location verification tracking as a tool to help combat chip smuggling. This follows a report by the Economist that showed Taiwan exports of advanced chips to Malaysia in the first quarter has nearly reached 2024 totals, heightening concerns that China... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 13

By Linda Christensen - 13 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=430 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

A Route For More Efficient SOT-MRAM Designs (NTU, TSMC)

By Technical Paper Link - 06 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Efficient Magnetization Switching via Orbital-to-Spin Conversion in Cr/W-Based Heterostructures" by researchers at National Taiwan University and TSMC. Abstract "A highly efficient spin–orbit torque (SOT) switching mechanism is crucial for the realization of practical SOT magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). This study proposes a Cr/W-based spin current sour... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: August 20

By Linda Christensen - 20 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=252 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Data Filtering Directly Within A NAND Flash Memory Chip

By Technical Paper Link - 13 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Search-in-Memory (SiM): Reliable, Versatile, and Efficient Data Matching in SSD's NAND Flash Memory Chip for Data Indexing Acceleration” was published by researchers at TU Dortmund, Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University. "This paper introduces the Search-in-Memory (SiM) chip, which demonstrates the feasibility of performing data filtering directly with... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: April 8

By Linda Christensen - 08 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=214 /] Find last week’s technical paper additions here. » read more

Power Sub-Mesh Construction To Mitigate IR Drop And Minimize Routing Overhead (Intel)

By Technical Paper Link - 02 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Power Sub-Mesh Construction in Multiple Power Domain Design with IR Drop and Routability Optimization" was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and National Taiwan University. Abstract: "Multiple power domain design is prevalent for achieving aggressive power savings. In such design, power delivery to cross-domain cells poses a tough challenge at adv... » read more

Technical Paper Roundup: November 14

By Liz Allan - 14 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=165 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Highly Stacked Nanowire FETs To Enhance Drive Current And Transistor Density

By Technical Paper Link - 10 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Fabrication and performance of highly stacked GeSi nanowire field effect transistors” was published by researchers at National Taiwan University. Abstract: "Horizontal gate-all-around field effect transistors (GAAFETs) are used to replace FinFETs due to their good electrostatics and short channel control. Highly stacked nanowire channels are widely believed to en... » read more

Chip Industry Talent Shortage Drives Academic Partnerships

By Liz Allan - 16 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

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

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