Chip Industry Week in Review


The IEEE ISSCC conference was held this week in San Francisco. Among the highlights: IBM detailed an AI accelerator based on its new inferencing dataflow architecture. CEA-Leti presented a chip-scale, ultra-fast, battery-operated EPR spectrometer. QuTech introduced a cryo-CMOS SoC with NV centers in diamond. UTokyo showed its low-jitter PLL architecture for beyond 5G/6G. Imec d... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Major Deals: Taiwan-based UMC is exploring possible collaboration with Polar Semiconductor for high-volume production of 8-inch wafers at Polar’s expanded Minnesota fab, a move that could provide domestic manufacturing capacity for automotive, data center, consumer, aerospace, and defense customers. Marvell will acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B, adding photonic fabric technology for o... » read more

Demonstrating The Strong Superconducting Diode Effect In Conventional SC Thin films


A technical paper titled “Ubiquitous Superconducting Diode Effect in Superconductor Thin Films” was published by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), IBM Research Europe, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM-MPC), Hanford High School, Vestavia Hills High School, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Condensed Matter ... » read more