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

Chip Industry Week in Review


Deals of the week: Arteris announced plans to acquire cybersecurity provider Cycuity. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement,” said Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of Arteris. Qualcomm acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a maker of RISC-V data center-class CPU IP. ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: August 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=467 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Reconfigurable Single-Walled CNT FeFET (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Yonsei et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Reconfigurable single-walled carbon nanotube ferroelectric field-effect transistors" was published by researchers at University of Pennsylvania, Yonsei University, Kookmin University, SKKU and Peking University. Abstract "Reconfigurable devices have garnered significant attention for alleviating the scaling requirements of conventional complementary metal-oxide... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 22


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=456 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Physics-Based ASICs (Normal Computing et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs" was published by researchers at Normal Computing Corporation, ARIA, UC Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania, Santa Fe Institute, Cornell University. Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and Yale University. Abstract "Escalating artificial intelligence (AI) demands expose a critical "compute crisis"... » read more

Research Bits: April 22


PIC heterogeneous integration Researchers from Hewlett Packard Labs, Indian Institutes of Technology Madras, Microsoft Research, and University of Michigan built an AI acceleration platform based on heterogeneously integrated photonic ICs. The PIC combines silicon photonics along with III-V compound semiconductors that functionally integrate lasers and optical amplifiers to reduce optical l... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Check out our new Inside Chips podcast. President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs were announced this week. The executive order stated that semiconductors and copper imports are not directly subject to the reciprocal tariff, although the exemption may be short-lived. Semiconductor equipment and tools were not mentioned, leaving the industry searching for clarification. Regardless, hig... » read more

Research Bits: Dec. 16


Soft liquid metal vias Researchers from Virginia Tech and University of Pennsylvania found a way to create soft, flexible electric connections through circuit layers. The method could be used for soft robotics and wearable devices. The technique uses liquid metal microdroplets to create a stair-like structure that forms soft vias and planar interconnects through and across circuit layers wi... » read more

Research Bits: Nov. 25


3D-printed ESD protection Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a printable elastomeric silicone foam for electronics packaging that provides both mechanical and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. The team used a 3D printing technique called direct ink writing (DIW), an extrusion process in which a paste with controlled rheological properties such as elast... » read more

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