AI Data Centers And Auto Industry Converge On Same Issues


Key Takeaways:   AI data centers need power from a range of sources, including batteries, to safeguard against blackouts, transient voltage spikes, and grid demand spikes.  As with regenerative braking and bidirectional charging in electric vehicles, data centers could feed power or heat back into the grid for public use, but the immediate goal is to disrupt the grid as little as pos... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Dealmaking Amkor inked a 10-year agreement with TSMC to provide advanced packaging and test services in Arizona, tying TSMC’s U.S. fab expansion to domestic OSAT capacity. Trump said in a post that Apple will partner with Intel on chip design and production in the U.S., marking a second reported win for the chipmaker this month. Intel Foundry will also reportedly manufacture 3 million... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations SHIP: SRAM-Based Huge Inference Pipelines for Fast LLM Serving 🔗 Nvidia, Groq Not All Thoughts Need HBM: Semantics-Aware Memory Hierarchy for LLM Reasoning 🔗 USC, University of Wisconsin-Madison Water-based, large-scale transfer of... » read more

HW-Native, GPU Compiler for Large-scale ML Production Systems (UC San Diego, Meta)


A new technical paper, "TLX: Hardware-Native, Evolvable MIMW GPU Compiler for Large-scale Production Environments," was published by researchers at UC San Diego and Meta. Abstract "Modern GPUs increasingly rely on specialized hardware units and asynchronous coordination mechanisms, so performance depends on orchestrating data movement, tensor-core computation, and synchronization rather t... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 11


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Source-position-dependent transmission cross coefficient formula including polarization and mask three-dimensional effects in High NA EUV🔗 Science Tokyo Performance and Energy Benefits of MRDIMMs 🔗 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, UPC, ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 24


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations NL2GDS: LLM-aided interface for Open Source Chip Design 🔗 University of Bristol, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory An Integrated Failure and Threat Mode and Effect Analysis (FTMEA) Framework with Quantified Cross-Domain Correlation Factors for Automot... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Disruptions caused by the Iran conflict have taken about one third of the global helium supply off the market, an essential gas for semiconductor manufacturing, reports the World Economic Forum. Other potential impacts for the chip industry include bromine and other chemical shortages, logistical disruptions, and higher energy prices incurred by fabs in Asia. Top Deals IBM and Lam R... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 24


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=525 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 21


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=484 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Apple plans to increase its U.S. investment by an additional $100 billion over four years, which includes the launch of an advanced manufacturing supply chain program, spurring a number of related chip industry announcements, including: Apple will invest in Amkor's new packaging and test facility in Arizona as its first and largest customer, and Amkor will package and test Apple silicon pr... » read more

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