Chip Industry Week in Review


Government funding/defunding NIST is terminating funding for the SMART USA Institute, a CHIPS Act research center focused on digital twins, prompting congressional concern that the decision disrupts active awards and weakens U.S. semiconductor R&D commitments. Korea Zinc was awarded $210M in CHIPS Act funding towards a new $6.6B Tennessee advanced smelter and minerals processing facility,... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Deals of the week: Arteris announced plans to acquire cybersecurity provider Cycuity. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement,” said Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of Arteris. Qualcomm acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a maker of RISC-V data center-class CPU IP. ... » 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

Research Bits: Dec. 2


Ionothermoelectric cooling Researchers from the University of Osaka, University of Tokyo, and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology proposed an ionothermoelectric cooling strategy for chips that enhances cooling by driving the flow of ions through nanoscale channels. “We fabricated a nanosized pore in a semiconductor membrane and surrounded the nanopore ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=494 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


China's Hefei Lumiverse Technology reportedly has developed a desktop-sized High Harmonic Generation light source that generates wavelengths as small as 1nm. One customer already has used it to produce 14nm chips, which was the original target node for EUV, according to one report. As a point of comparison, TSMC and Samsung didn't start using EUV until the 7nm node, relying instead on immersion... » read more

Intelligence Per Watt: Measuring Local Inference Viability, Studying 20+ Models, 8 HW Accelerators (Stanford Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI" was published by researchers at Stanford University and Together AI. Abstract: "Large language model (LLM) queries are predominantly processed by frontier models in centralized cloud infrastructure. Rapidly growing demand strains this paradigm, and cloud providers struggle to scale infrastruc... » read more

3D Imaging Buried Interfaces In Twisted Oxide Moirés (Cornell, SLAC, Stanford et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Mind the Gap -- Imaging Buried Interfaces in Twisted Oxide Moirés" was published by researchers at Cornell University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, USC, North Carolina State University, University of Chicago, Institute for Basic Science and POSTECH. Abstract "The ability to tune electronic structure in twisted stacks of layered, t... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


SEMICON West was held in Phoenix this week, with presentations covering heterogeneous integration, AI, quantum, supply chain resilience, and more. Amid the buzz of the conference, some key manufacturing and test announcements were made this week: The strategic importance of the Phoenix area hub was highlighted. Amkor Technology broke ground this week on its advanced packaging and test camp... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 7


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=480 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here » read more

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