Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test


The Chinese government is considering easing proposed rules that require foreign office equipment makers operating in the country to transfer key product technology to China, per Nikkei Asia. In April 2022, Chinese authorities began revamping their national standards to include a new requirement that key components, such as semiconductors and laser-related items, be designed, developed, and pro... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: July 12


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=117 /] (more…) » read more

An Integrated Fabrication Approach For Fully EHD-Printed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs) 


A technical paper titled "All Electrohydrodynamic Printed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors" was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. Abstract: "The demand of cost-effective fabrication of printed flexible transistors has dramatically increased in recent years due to the need for flexible interface devices for various application including e-skins, wearables, and ... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: July 5


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=114 /] (more…) » read more

Design of Selective Deposition Processes For Nanoscale Electronic Devices


A technical paper titled “Quantified Uniformity and Selectivity of TiO2 Films in 45-nm Half Pitch Patterns Using Area-Selective Deposition Supercycles” was published by researchers at IMEC, North Carolina State University, and KU Leuven. Abstract: "Area-selective deposition (ASD) shows great promise for sub-10 nm manufacturing in nanoelectronics, but significant challenges remain in scali... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing


Automotive Ambarella will use Samsung's 5nm process technology for its new CV3-AD685 automotive AI central domain controller, bringing "new levels of AI acceleration, system integration and power efficiency to ADAS and L2+ through L4 autonomous vehicles.” Renesas introduced four technologies for automotive communication gateway SoCs: (1) an architecture that dynamically changes... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 21


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=82 /] 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 ... » read more

HW-SW Co-Design Solution For Building Side-Channel-Protected ML Hardware


A technical paper titled "Hardware-Software Co-design for Side-Channel Protected Neural Network Inference" was published (preprint) by researchers at North Carolina State University and Intel. Abstract "Physical side-channel attacks are a major threat to stealing confidential data from devices. There has been a recent surge in such attacks on edge machine learning (ML) hardware to extract the... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 17


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=74 /] 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 posting li... » read more

Technique For Printing Electronic Circuits Onto Curved & Corrugated Surfaces Using Metal Nanowires (NC State)


A technical paper titled "Curvilinear soft electronics by micromolding of metal nanowires in capillaries" was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. “We’ve developed a technique that doesn’t require binding agents and that allows us to print on a variety of curvilinear surfaces,” says Yuxuan Liu, first author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at NC State in this ... » read more

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