Chip Industry Week in Review


Global The U.S. created a licensing path for Nvidia H200 shipments in January and has since approved sales to 10 Chinese companies, but so far no shipments have been confirmed, reports Reuters. With a looming end-of-year expiration, SIA, SEMI, and other business groups are urging Congress to extend the US semiconductor tax credit and expand it to cover semiconductor design and other act... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals Marvell acquired Polariton Technologies, a Swiss developer of plasmonics-based silicon photonics devices. Onto Innovation is partnering with Rigaku, combining Onto’s analysis software with Rigaku’s CD-SAXS platform for advanced semiconductor process control. Onto also agreed to acquire a 27% stake in Rigaku for about $710M. Tesla plans to use Intel’s 14A process for its T... » read more

Emulation-based SoC Security Verification (U. of Florida)


A new technical paper, "Emulation-based System-on-Chip Security Verification: Challenges and Opportunities," was published by researchers at University of Florida. Abstract "Increasing system-on-chip (SoC) heterogeneity, deep hardware/software integration, and the proliferation of third-party intellectual property (IP) have brought security validation to the forefront of semiconductor desig... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Acquisitions and business pivots Teradyne acquired Israel-based TestInsight, a semiconductor test provider with pattern conversion, validation, and virtual test capabilities. Credo plans to acquire DustPhotonics, a developer of silicon photonics PICs for optical transceivers. Molex plans to acquire Teramount, a provider of detachable, passive-alignment fiber-to-chip connectivity solu... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Apr. 14


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Device/circuit simulations of silicon spin qubits based on a gate-all-around transistor 🔗 Teikyo University, RIKEN Causal AI For AMS Circuit Design: Interpretable Parameter Effects Analysis 🔗 University of Florida Reliability of Wide B... » 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

Automated Security Assertion Generation Using LLMs (U. of Florida)


A new technical paper, "Assertain: Automated Security Assertion Generation Using Large Language Models," was published by University of Florida. Abstract "The increasing complexity of modern system-on-chip designs amplifies hardware security risks and makes manual security property specification a major bottleneck in formal property verification. This paper presents Assertain, an automated ... » 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

Information Flow Verification Framework Integrating Static and Formal Verification Methods At The Pre-Silicon Stage (U. of Florida)


Researchers from University of Florida published "IFV: Information Flow Verification at the Pre-silicon Stage Utilizing Static-Formal Methodology." Abstract "Modern system-on-chips (SoCs) are becoming prone to numerous security vulnerabilities due to their ever-growing complexity and size. Therefore, a comprehensive security verification framework is needed at the very early stage of the ... » read more

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