Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 5


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design 🔗 Univ. of Edinburgh, Peking Univ., Cambridge, CAS, HKUST In-SoIC ESD Protection for Chiplet-Based 3D Microsystems: Future Research Direct... » read more

Microarchitecture Tailored to 3D-Stacked Near-Memory Processing LLM Decoding (U. of Edinburgh, Peking U., Cambridge et al.)


A new technical paper, "Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design," was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh, Peking University, University of Cambridge, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Abstract "Large language model (LLM) decoding is a majo... » read more

Research Bits: Apr. 6


Reservoir computing Researchers from Loughborough University designed a memristor reservoir computing chip that can process data that changes over time directly in hardware. “Inspired by the way the human brain forms very numerous and seemingly random neuronal connections between all its neurons, we created complex, random, physical connections in an artificial neural network by designing... » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 24


Dual-modulated transistor Researchers from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) and University of Cambridge designed dual-modulated vertically stacked transistors in which two gates, positioned above and below in a sandwich-like structure, control the channel through different mechanisms. The lower electrode contains microscopic openings to allow electric signals to p... » 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

Automotive Week In Review


Quick links: Automotive chips, Autonomous, EVs, Batteries, Policy, Research. Automotive chips  Mythic and Honda will jointly develop an automotive-grade AI SoC for Honda’s SDVs that leverages Mythic’s energy-efficient analog compute-in-memory technology. ST released a new MCU with AI acceleration for the automotive edge, integrating an embedded neural network accelerator. I... » read more

Neuromorphic HW That Detects Motion Changes 4X Faster (Beihang, BIT, KAUST, Cambridge et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Ultrafast visual perception beyond human capabilities enabled by motion analysis using synaptic transistors" was published by researchers at Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, KAUST, University of Cambridge and others. Excerpt from Abstract "We introduce a neuromorphic temporal-attention hardware that emulates the interaction between the ret... » 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

ML for Energy-Performance-Aware Scheduling On Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures (Cambridge)


University of Cambridge researchers published "Machine Learning for Energy-Performance-aware Scheduling." Abstract "In the post-Dennard era, optimizing embedded systems requires navigating complex trade-offs between energy efficiency and latency. Traditional heuristic tuning is often inefficient in such high-dimensional, non-smooth landscapes. In this work, we propose a Bayesian Optimizatio... » read more

Research Bits: Jan. 20


ALD for Ru wiring Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Hongik University, and Tanaka Precious Metal Technologies developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for creating chip interconnects using a ruthenium (Ru) precursor with a thermal stability up to 400 °C. The high-temperature ALD process can produce dense, high-quality Ru films without deg... » read more

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