Electromigration Concerns Grow In Advanced Packages
Higher density, heat, and more materials make it harder to ensure reliability.
What Works Best For Chiplets
Not all chiplets are interchangeable, and options will be limited.
Chip Industry Week In Review
Applied Materials' $4B facility at risk; AI chip bonanza; Japan, U.S. alliance; Rapidus' U.S. subsidiary; EDA revenue up; TSMC $6.6B funding; Infineon, Amkor team up; S. Korea's big bet; Apple's processor overhaul; high-NA EUVL defect system; chiplet HW security module; new Spectre attack.
EDA Looks Beyond Chips
System design, large-scale simulations, and AI/ML could open multi-trillion-dollar markets for tools, methodologies, and services.
Architecting Chips For High-Performance Computing
Data center IC designs are evolving, based on workloads, but making the tradeoffs for those workloads is not always straightforward.
The Rising Price Of Power In Chips
More data requires faster processing, which leads to a whole bunch of problems — not all of which are obvious or even solvable.
Chiplet IP Standards Are Just The Beginning
Data and protocol interoperability standards are needed for EDA tools, and there are more hurdles ahead. Customized chiplets will be required for AI applications.
The Future Of Memory
From attempts to resolve thermal and power issues to the roles of CXL and UCIe, the future holds a number of opportunities for memory.
Electromigration Concerns Grow In Advanced Packages
Higher density, heat, and more materials make it harder to ensure reliability.
Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Ramps Up
The promise of photonics ICs is spurring innovation, but complex processes and a lack of open foundries are keeping it from reaching its full potential.
Backside Power Delivery Gears Up For 2nm Devices
But this novel approach to optimizing logic performance depends on advancing lithography, etching, polishing, and bonding processes.
X-ray Inspection In The Semiconductor Industry
Utilizing multiple technologies helps create a more complete inspection picture.
SRAM Scaling Issues, And What Comes Next
While it will remain a workhorse memory, using SRAM at advanced nodes requires new approaches.
