Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Apr. 21


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Neural Computers 🔗 Meta AI, KAUST Characterizing tip-sample interaction dynamics on EUV nanostructures using AFM with a high-aspect ratio tip 🔗 Purdue University, Intel, Bruker  Photonic chip packaging for extreme environments ὑ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals, Funding Intel will join Elon Musk’s Terafab chip manufacturing project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Intel described its role as helping refactor silicon fab technology for a project targeting production of 1 TW/year of compute for AI and robotics applications. Intel and Google are expanding a multi-year collaboration on AI and cloud infrastructure, with Intel Xeon processo... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=523 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Geopolitics U.S. lawmakers are urging tighter export controls on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) to China, warning existing loopholes threaten national security. "China is working to build domestic SME by exploiting access to U.S. and allied subcomponents required to produce tools," states the letter, which also says better coordination with allies is essential. The U.S.... » read more

IMC: Free-Space Optical Neural Network With High Clockrate (Berkeley, USC, TU Berlin)


A new technical paper titled "High-clockrate free-space optical in-memory computing" was published by researchers at UC Berkeley, USC,  and TU Berlin. Abstract "The ability to process and act on data in real time is increasingly critical for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles, three-dimensional environmental sensing, and remote robotics. However, the deployment of deep neural ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 9


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=521 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

HW-Triggered Backdoors Across Common GPU Accelerators (BIFOLD, TU Berlin, CISPA)


A new technical paper titled "Hardware-Triggered Backdoors" was published by researchers at Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), TU Berlin and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Abstract "Machine learning models are routinely deployed on a wide range of computing hardware. Although such hardware is typically expected to produce identical result... » read more

Security Research Bits


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at the August 2021 USENIX Security Symposium. The organization provides open access research, and the presentation slides and papers are free to the public. Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses, embedded security, hardware security tokens, and more. Here are some highlights with associated links:   [tab... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: March 19


Exascale computers Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have set plans to develop and deliver the first exascale supercomputer in the United States. The system, called Aurora, will provide an exaFLOP of performance or a quintillion floating point computations per second. Targeted for delivery in 2021, the system is being developed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory. The system ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Mar. 19


Explainable AI Researchers from Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) propose a pair of algorithms to help determine how AI systems reach their conclusions. Explainable AI is an important step towards practical applications, argued Klaus-Robert Müller, Professor for Machine Learning at... » read more