Technical Paper Round-Up: July 5


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=36 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for... » read more

Univ. of Manchester & Shandong Univ.–Synaptic Transistors


Research paper titled "Synaptic transistors with a memory time tunability over seven orders of magnitude" from researchers at The University of Manchester (UK) and Shandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Microelectronics, Shandong University, China. Abstract "The human brain is capable of short- and long-term memory with retention times ranging from a few second... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 5


Even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. Our brains have upwards of 86 billion neurons, connected by synapses that not only complete myriad logic circuits, but continuously adapt to stimuli, strengthening some connections while weakening others. We call that process learning, and it enables the kind of rapid, highly efficient computational... » read more