Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 07 Nov, 2025 - Comments: 0

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 Technical Paper Roundup: Feb. 19

By Liz Allan - 19 Feb, 2024 - Comments: 0

New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=199 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

New Metasurface Architecture To Deliver Ultrafast Information Processing And Versatile Terahertz Sources

By Technical Paper Link - 15 Feb, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Light-driven nanoscale vectorial currents” was published by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Menlo Systems, University of California Davis, Columbia University, Sandia National Laboratories, and Intellectual Ventures. Abstract: "Controlled charge flows are fundamental to many areas of science and technology, serving as carriers of energy and informa... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: August 9

By Liz Allan - 09 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=124 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Performance Enhancement Of An Si Photodetector By Incorporating Photon-Trapping Surface Structures

By Technical Paper Link - 02 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Achieving higher photoabsorption than group III-V semiconductors in ultrafast thin silicon photodetectors with integrated photon-trapping surface structures” was published by researchers at University of California Davis, W&WSens Devices Inc., and University of California Santa Cruz. Abstract: "The photosensitivity of silicon is inherently very low in the vis... » read more

Research Bits: April 26

By Jesse Allen - 26 Apr, 2022 - Comments: 0

Photonic quantum computers Researchers from Stanford University propose a simpler design method for photonic quantum computers. The proposed design uses a laser to manipulate a single atom that, in turn, can modify the state of the photons via a phenomenon called “quantum teleportation.” The atom can be reset and reused for many quantum gates, eliminating the need to build multiple distinc... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 2

By Jesse Allen - 02 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

DNA programming Computer scientists at California Institute of Technology, University of California, Davis, Maynooth University, and Harvard University created a library of DNA molecules that can self-assemble to compute a variety of algorithms. Each molecule represents a six-bit binary number. The library created by the team is made up of around 700 short pieces, or tiles, of DNA. Each DNA... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Aug. 7

By Mark LaPedus - 07 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

DNA ROMs The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) are investing $12 million to develop a new class of memories and other technologies, such as DNA-based read-only memory (ROM), nucleic acid memory (NAM) and neural networks based on yeast cells. The effort is called the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 11

By Jesse Allen - 11 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

High-efficiency silicon photodetector Electrical engineers at the University of California, Davis, and W&WSens Devices, Inc. built a new type of high-efficiency photodetector that could be monolithically integrated with silicon electronics. The new detector uses tapered holes in a silicon wafer to divert photons sideways, preserving the speed of thin-layer silicon and the efficiency o... » read more

System Bits: March 3

By Ann Mutschler - 03 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Observing antiferromagnetic order in ultracold atoms Rice University researchers have simulated superconducting materials and made headway on a problem that’s vexed physicists for nearly three decades using ultracold atoms as a stand-in for electrons. The research team, led by Rice, included researchers from Ohio State University, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, University of Cal... » read more

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