Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 17 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

President Biden will raise the tariff rate on Chinese semiconductors from 25% to 50% by 2025, among other measures to protect U.S. businesses from China’s trade practices. Also, as part of President Biden’s AI Executive Order, the Administration released steps to protect workers from AI risks, including human oversight of systems and transparency about what systems are being used. Intel ... » read more

Tweaking Isotopes In Thin Semiconductor Materials Can Influence Optical And Electronic Properties

By Technical Paper Link - 14 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Anomalous isotope effect on the optical bandgap in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor” was published by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and University of Central Florida. Abstract: "Isotope effects have received increasing attention in materials science and engineering because altering isotopes directly affects phonons, ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 10 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

Synopsys refocused its security priorities around chips, striking a deal to sell off its Software Integrity Group subsidiary to private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Francisco Partners for about $2.1 billion. That deal comes on the heels of Synopsys' recent acquisition of Intrinsic ID, which develops physical unclonable function IP. Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys' president and CEO, said in... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 19 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

SK hynix and TSMC plan to collaborate on HBM4 development and next-generation packaging technology, with plans to mass produce HBM4 chips in 2026. The agreement is an early indicator for just how competitive, and potentially lucrative, the HBM market is becoming. SK hynix said the collaboration will enable breakthroughs in memory performance with increased density of the memory controller at t... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: March 26

By Linda Christensen - 26 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=209 /] Find last week's technical paper additions here. » read more

Environmental Impact of Semiconductor Manufacturing (ORNL)

By Technical Paper Link - 15 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Cleaner Chips: Decarbonization in Semiconductor Manufacturing" was published by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / UT-Battelle. Abstract: "The growth of the information and communication technology sector has vastly accelerated in recent decades because of advancements in digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Scope 1, 2, and 3 gree... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 15 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Adam Kovac, Karen Heyman, and Liz Allan. Europe's semiconductor footprint is growing in areas that previously had little association with chips. Silicon Box plans to build a panel-level foundry in northern Italy, funded in part by the Italian government. The deal is worth around €3.2 billion ($3.6B). In addition, imec will establish a specialized 300mm chip technology pilot line in M... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 23

By Liz Allan - 23 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=189 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Training Large LLM Models With Billions To Trillion Parameters On ORNL’s Frontier Supercomputer

By Technical Paper Link - 16 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Optimizing Distributed Training on Frontier for Large Language Models” was published by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Universite Paris-Saclay. Abstract: "Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success as foundational models, benefiting various downstream applications through fine-tuning. Recent studies on loss scaling ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 12 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Jesse Allen, Karen Heyman, and Liz Allan Renesas will acquire Transphorm, which designs and manufactures gallium nitride power devices, for about $339 million. GaN, which is a wide-bandgap technology, is used for high-voltage applications in a slew of markets, including EVs and EV fast chargers, as well as data centers and industrial applications. Cadence acquired Invecas, a provider o... » read more

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Chip Industry Week In Review

Tweaking Isotopes In Thin Semiconductor Materials Can Influence Optical And Electronic Properties

Chip Industry Week In Review

Chip Industry Week In Review

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: March 26

Environmental Impact of Semiconductor Manufacturing (ORNL)

Chip Industry Week In Review

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 23

Training Large LLM Models With Billions To Trillion Parameters On ORNL’s Frontier Supercomputer

Chip Industry Week In Review

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