Chip Industry Week In Review


Advanced manufacturing, packaging Intel Foundry will invest €5B to expand Intel 3 capacity at its Leixlip, Ireland campus. The company also entered high-volume manufacturing for a subset of Panther Lake processors manufactured on its 18A using ASML’s High-NA EUV technology. UMC delivered the first production wafers for SILITH’s 1.6T silicon photonics platform from its 300mm Singa... » read more

Monolithic CMOS Platform Integrates Piezo-Optomechanical Photonics (Mitre et al.)


Researchers from MITRE, University of Colorado Boulder, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Arizona, and MIT published a technical paper titled “Monolithic Integration of Piezo-Optomechanical Photonics and CMOS Electronics.” Abstract Excerpt: The paper demonstrates a “fully monolithic, all-CMOS fabricated platform” for piezo-optomechanical photonic integrated circuits and sho... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Arm uncorked its first internally developed CPU chip this week, aimed squarely at the agentic AI data center market. Arm CEO Rene Haas (pictured) emphasized the CPU's power efficiency and performance/watt compared to other AI processor architectures. "We are obsessed with efficiency, and if you think about one of the biggest appeals that Arm has had over the years, it is power profile," he ... » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 17


Photonic ski jumps Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MITRE, University of Arizona, and Sandia National Laboratories developed a new class of photonic devices that enable the precise broadcasting of light from a chip into free space. The chip uses an array of microscopic structures that curl upward, resembling tiny ski jumps, and allows control over how light is e... » 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

AFMTJ Model For In-Memory Computing (University of Arizona)


University of Arizona researchers published "Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions (AFMTJs) for In-Memory Computing: Modeling and Case Study." Abstract "Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions (AFMTJs) enable picosecond switching and femtojoule writes through ultrafast sublattice dynamics. We present the first end-to-end AFMTJ simulation framework integrating multi-sublattice Landau-Lifshitz-Gilb... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Intel hired ex-Qualcomm GPU guru Eric Demers for the company's high-performance GPU push, setting the stage for a three-way battle with Nvidia and AMD. The key targets for Intel and AMD will be better power efficiency and a programming model that rivals CUDA, but don't expect Nvidia to stand still. Acquisitions Texas Instruments plans to acquire Silicon Labs for ~$7.5B cash to enhance i... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


SK hynix is ramping HBM manufacturing capacity to meet explosive demand for AI data centers. The company will launch 16-stack HBM4 next year, and up to 12-stack HBM4E. HBM5 and HBM5E will be introduced between 2029 and 2031, reports Business Korea. China will not have access to NVIDIA’s most advanced chips, President Trump told 60 Minutes. The Dutch economy minister said Nexperia's chip... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Qualcomm announced plans to buy Alphawave Semi for ~$2.4 billion in a deal expected to close in Q1 2026. Qualcomm plans to leverage Alphawave Semi's connectivity products, including chiplets, to develop high-performance, low-power solutions for AI inferencing and customized CPUs in data centers. Qualcomm's traditional targets were mobile phones and edge computing. [Updated 6/9.] Global semic... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept. 3


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=256 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

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