Chip Industry Week in Review


The Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit kicked off this week in San Jose, dominated by open standards, massive scaling of AI infrastructure, chiplet architectures, and energy-efficiency. Among the highlights: An initiative to standardize data center infrastructure and advance Ethernet for AI. New contributions to OCP's Open Chiplet Economy ecosystem, including Arm's new Foundation Chiplet... » read more

Optical Next-Gen Reservoir Computing Framework (Sorbonne, CNRS, Tsinghua U. et al)


A new technical paper titled "Optical next generation reservoir computing" was published by researchers at Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong, and University of Tokyo. Excerpt "Artificial neural networks with internal dynamics exhibit remarkable capability in processing information. Reservoir computing (RC) is a canonical example that features rich comp... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 6


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=427 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Hardware Trojan Attack For SNNs (Sorbonne Université, CNRS)


A new technical paper titled "Input-Triggered Hardware Trojan Attack on Spiking Neural Networks" was published by researchers at Sorbonne Universite, CNRS and Queen’s University Belfast. Abstract "Neuromorphic computing based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering unique advantages in terms of low... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


The EU Commission approved €920 million in German State aid to support Infineon in setting up its Smart Power Fab in Dresden. Total funding for the Dresden site amounts to about €1 billion. PDF Solutions will acquire secureWISE for $130 million to expand the reach of its semiconductor manufacturing data platform, providing secure, remote access monitoring and control. Tariffs, trade, and ... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Oct 25


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=59 /] » read more

Locking-Based Design-For-Security Methodology To Prevent Piracy of RF transceiver ICs


A new technical paper titled "Anti-Piracy Design of RF Transceivers" was published by researchers at Sorbonne Universite (France). Abstract: "We present a locking-based design-for-security methodology to prevent piracy of RF transceiver integrated circuits. The solution is called SyncLock as it locks the synchronization of the transmitter with the receiver. If a key other than the secret ... » read more

Quantum: Pairing Cooper Pairs Magnifies The Phase Fluctuations of the Ground State


New technical paper titled "Magnifying Quantum Phase Fluctuations with Cooper-Pair Pairing" from researchers at Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Diderot, Inria de Paris, PSL Research University. Abstract "Remarkably, complex assemblies of superconducting wires, electrodes, and Josephson junctions are compactly described by a handful of collective phase degrees ... » read more