Chip Industry Week In Review


Manufacturing ASE and WUS are jointly building a ~$1.1B advanced packaging hub in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for fan-out chip-on-substrate (FOCoS) and flip-chip ball grid array (FC BGA) technologies. The new site is expected to be completed by September 2029. SpaceX filed documents for a “Terafab” semiconductor manufacturing and computing facility at Gibbons Creek Reservoir in Texas, with a... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=501 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here and in the most recent Chip Industry Week in Review. » read more

Systematic Lithographic Patterning Characterization Of An Al-based Hybrid Resist (Stonybrook, UT Dallas, Brookhaven)


A new technical paper titled "Molecular Layer Deposited Aluminum-Based Hybrid Resist for High-Resolution Nanolithography and Direct Ultra-High Aspect Ratio Pattern Transfer" was published by researchers at Stony Brook University, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Excerpt "Here, this study reports the systematic lithographic patterning characterization ... » read more

Comparing Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Hardware (Rensselaer, IBM)


A new technical paper titled "From Promise to Practice: Benchmarking Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Hardware" was published by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Abstract  "We provide a systematic evaluation of the sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) method for electronic structure based on the W4-11 thermochemistry dataset, comprisi... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 2


Microwave neural network Researchers from Cornell University designed an on-chip microwave neural network that can perform real-time frequency domain computation for tasks like radio signal decoding, radar target tracking, and digital data processing. By using interconnected modes produced in tunable waveguides, the device can handle data streams in the tens of gigahertz while consuming less t... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


The U.S. government will grant licenses to NVIDIA and AMD to again sell some AI chips — NVIDIA's H20 GPU and AMD's MI308 — to Chinese companies. TrendForce projects that the availability of NVIDIA chips, in particular, will create a surge in demand from Chinese AI firms and cloud service providers, and boost high-bandwidth memory (HBM) consumption. The move could raise China’s share of... » read more

Research Bits: Feb. 19


DNA assembly of 3D nanomaterials Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University developed a method that uses DNA to instruct molecules to organize themselves into targeted 3D patterns and produce a wide variety of designed metallic and semiconductor 3D nanostructures. “We have been using DNA to program nanoscale materials for more than a de... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 6


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=187 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Hacking DNA To Make 3D Nanostructures


A technical paper titled “Three-dimensional nanoscale metal, metal oxide, and semiconductor frameworks through DNA-programmable assembly and templating” was published by researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University. Abstract: "Controlling the three-dimensional (3D) nanoarchitecture of inorganic materials is imperative for enabling their no... » read more

Technical Paper Roundup: November 21


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=167 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

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