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

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 27


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=517 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Confidentiality-preserving Framework For Secure On-Chip Communication in NoC Architectures


A new technical paper, "Secure Multi-Path Routing with All-or-Nothing Transform for Network-on-Chip Architectures," was published by researchers at University of Florida. Abstract "Ensuring Network-on-Chip (NoC) security is crucial to design trustworthy NoC-based System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. While there are various threats that exploit on-chip communication vulnerabilities, eavesdrop... » read more

A Verification Framework For Trojan Detection (U. of Kansas, U. of Florida)


A new technical paper "COVERT: Trojan Detection in COTS Hardware via Statistical Activation of Microarchitectural Events" was published by researchers at University of Kansas and University of Florida. Abstract "Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, such as microprocessors, are widely adopted in system design due to their ability to reduce development time and cost compared to custom ... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Government funding/defunding NIST is terminating funding for the SMART USA Institute, a CHIPS Act research center focused on digital twins, prompting congressional concern that the decision disrupts active awards and weakens U.S. semiconductor R&D commitments. Korea Zinc was awarded $210M in CHIPS Act funding towards a new $6.6B Tennessee advanced smelter and minerals processing facility,... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Dec. 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=499 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here and in the most recent Chip Industry Week in Review.   » read more

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