Chip Industry Week In Review


Arm uncorked its first internally developed CPU chip this week, aimed squarely at the agentic AI data center market. Arm CEO Rene Haas (pictured) emphasized the CPU's power efficiency and performance/watt compared to other AI processor architectures. "We are obsessed with efficiency, and if you think about one of the biggest appeals that Arm has had over the years, it is power profile," he ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 9


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations FHECore: Rethinking GPU Microarchitecture for Fully Homomorphic Encryption 🔗 Boston University, Northeastern University, KAIST, University of Murcia Heterogeneous Memory Design Exploration for AI Accelerators with a Gain Cell Memory Compiler ... » read more

10-Year Roadmap for AI + Hardware (UIUC, UCLA, Stanford et al.)


Researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UCLA, Stanford University, Nvidia, Google, et al. have released “AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade”. Abstract “Artificial intelligence (AI) and hardware (HW) are advancing at unprecedented rates, yet their trajectories have become inseparably intertwined. The global research community lacks a cohesive, long-term vision t... » read more

Consumer And Med Tech Mushroom As Quantum Closes In


Key Takeaways: Universities and companies are making devices inspired by biology and the human senses to help with health monitoring, semiconductor materials development, human-computer interfaces, and more. When this nascent technology becomes a viable product, government regulations will be needed to ensure consumer safety in tracking or treating their body and the environment. Qua... » read more

Research Bits: Dec. 22


Photonic memory Researchers from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison fabricated a regenerative photonic latch memory on GlobalFoundries’ commercial silicon photonics platform, a step towards building a complete photonic SRAM system. The memory cell can store data as light and regenerate the signal to keep it stable a... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Major Deals: Taiwan-based UMC is exploring possible collaboration with Polar Semiconductor for high-volume production of 8-inch wafers at Polar’s expanded Minnesota fab, a move that could provide domestic manufacturing capacity for automotive, data center, consumer, aerospace, and defense customers. Marvell will acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B, adding photonic fabric technology for o... » read more

Research Bits: Nov. 18


Rubbery CMOS Researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Houston, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Pusan National University, and Southeast University designed fully stretchable complementary integrated circuits composed of both elastic n-type and p-type transistors that provide the same functionality as conventional CMOS while retaining stable elec... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 21


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=484 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

System-HW Co-Design Approach Combines Mono3D DRAM, NMP, and GPU Acceleration (UCSD, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Illinois Tech)


A new technical paper titled "Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with Tiered Monolithic 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient MoE Serving" was published by researchers at UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois Institute of Technology. Abstract "As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a preva... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


The EU’s tariffs on semiconductors will not exceed 15%, according to Trump’s latest trade deal. In addition, the EU committed to purchasing at least $40 billion worth of U.S. AI chips as well as other investments. [FAQ is here.] Lifelines for Intel: Intel inked a deal to sell the U.S. government a 10% non-voting equity stake in its business, worth $8.9 billion. The stake will be fun... » read more

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