Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Arm filed its registration statement for a highly anticipated IPO. Chip industry heavyweights Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, and Intel are all expected to invest. Find the SEC filing here. Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) laid out a 10-year initiative to bolster its IC design market share to 40% worldwide by 2033, with the first year’s budget of US $376 million. The sh... » read more

Thermal Guardbanding


Stephen Crosher, CEO of Moortec, looks at the causes of thermal runaway in racks of servers and explains why accurate temperature measurement in AI and advanced-node chips is more critical, and what impact this has on performance when temperatures begin approaching acceptable limits. » read more

Manufacturing Printed Sensors


Vijaya Kayastha, lead device development engineer at Brewer Sciences, talks about the different approaches for different printed sensors, why each of those requires different skill levels for scaling up the process, and why this technology will be so important for industrial and IoT applications. » read more

Material Choices In Printed Temperature Sensors


Vijaya Kayastha, lead device development engineer at Brewer Science, talks about what’s needed for printed temperature sensors, what happens when there are impurities in the materials, how these sensors respond to stress, and how costs compare to traditional sensors. » read more

Thermal Issues And Modern SoCs: How Hot Is Hot?


A Q&A with Moortec CTO Oliver King. What are the thermal issues of modern SoCs? Gate density has been increasing with each node and that pushes up power per unit area, and I think that has become an even bigger issue with FinFET processes where the channels are more thermally isolated than the planar processes before them. In the last few planar nodes, leakage was an issue which led ... » read more