Chip Industry Week In Review


President Biden will raise the tariff rate on Chinese semiconductors from 25% to 50% by 2025, among other measures to protect U.S. businesses from China’s trade practices. Also, as part of President Biden’s AI Executive Order, the Administration released steps to protect workers from AI risks, including human oversight of systems and transparency about what systems are being used. Intel ... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: October 9


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=153 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Meeting The Material Challenges Of Nano-CMOS Electronics


A technical paper titled “Shockley-Read-Hall recombination and trap levels in In0.53 Ga0.47As point defects from first principles” was published by researchers at University of Glasgow and Synopsys Denmark. Abstract: "We present charge state transition levels of 23 intrinsic defects and dopant substitutions in the compound III-V semiconductor In0.53 Ga0.47 As, calculated with density func... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 19


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=141 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Neuromorphic Artificial Synaptic Device Combining Memristor Arrays With Copper Iodide


A technical paper titled “Charge-Mediated Copper-Iodide-Based Artificial Synaptic Device with Ultrahigh Neuromorphic Efficacy” was published by researchers at University of Glasgow, City University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Abstract: "In the realm of artificial intelligence, ultrahigh-performance neuromorphic computing plays a significant role in executing multi... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: Aug 23


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=46 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for... » read more

DNN-Opt, A Novel Deep Neural Network (DNN) Based Black-Box Optimization Framework For Analog Sizing


This technical paper titled "DNN-Opt: An RL Inspired Optimization for Analog Circuit Sizing using Deep Neural Networks" is co-authored from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, Intel, University of Glasgow. The paper was a best paper candidate at DAC 2021. "In this paper, we present DNN-Opt, a novel Deep Neural Network (DNN) based black-box optimization framework for analog sizi... » read more

Technical Paper Round-up: August 8


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=44 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for... » read more

Fabrication And Characterization Of Junctionless FETs


New technical paper titled "Planar Junctionless Field-Effect Transistor for Detecting Biomolecular Interactions"  was published from researchers at Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, University of Glasgow, and Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Abstract "Label-free field-effect transistor-based immunosensors are promising candidates for ... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: March 29


Improving batteries, ultra low-power photonic edge computing, SLAM, Tellurium for 2D semiconductors, and reservoir computing top the past week's technical papers. The focus on energy is critical as the edge buildout continues and more devices are connected to a battery, while research into new architectures and materials that will continue scaling and improve performance per watt continue at th... » read more

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