Chip Industry Week in Review


SEMICON West was held in Phoenix this week, with presentations covering heterogeneous integration, AI, quantum, supply chain resilience, and more. Amid the buzz of the conference, some key manufacturing and test announcements were made this week: The strategic importance of the Phoenix area hub was highlighted. Amkor Technology broke ground this week on its advanced packaging and test camp... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 23


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=478 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Cost-Effective, Orthogonal Approach to Resilient Memory Design (Univ. of Central Florida, UT San Antonio, Rochester)


A new technical paper titled "SCREME: A Scalable Framework for Resilient Memory Design" was published by researchers at University of Central Florida, University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Rochester. Abstract "The continuing advancement of memory technology has not only fueled a surge in performance, but also substantially exacerbate reliability challenges. Traditional soluti... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 15


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=446 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


GlobalFoundries plans to acquire MIPS, adding RISC-V processor IP and PPA optimization software capabilities to its foundry offerings. MIPS will continue to operate as a standalone business within GF. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2025. The EU rolled out new general-purpose AI rules this week to limit copyright infringement, protect public safety, and require transparency... » read more

Functional Hardware Trojans Specifically Tailored Tor SFQ (Univ. of Rochester)


A new technical paper titled "Hardware trojans in superconducting electronic circuits" was published by researchers at University of Rochester. Abstract "Hardware Trojans that exploit the unique characteristics of superconducting electronic (SCE) circuits are explored in this paper. Two types of hardware Trojan circuits are proposed: a magnetically-coupled data transmission Trojan embedded ... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Qualcomm announced plans to buy Alphawave Semi for ~$2.4 billion in a deal expected to close in Q1 2026. Qualcomm plans to leverage Alphawave Semi's connectivity products, including chiplets, to develop high-performance, low-power solutions for AI inferencing and customized CPUs in data centers. Qualcomm's traditional targets were mobile phones and edge computing. [Updated 6/9.] Global semic... » read more

Research Bits: Aug. 5


Measuring temperature with neutrons Researchers from Osaka University, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and Tokamak Energy developed a way to rapidly measure the temperature of electronic components inside a device using neutrons. The technique, called ‘neutron resonance absorption’ (NRA), examines neutrons being ab... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Jesse Allen, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan Intel officially launched Intel Foundry this week, claiming it's the "world's first systems foundry for the AI era." The foundry also showed off a more detailed technology roadmap down to expanded 14A process technology. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger noted the foundry will be separate from the chipmaker, utilize third-party chiplets and IP, and leverage... » read more

Research Bits: Jan. 23


Memristor-based Bayesian neural network Researchers from CEA-Leti, CEA-List, and CNRS built a complete memristor-based Bayesian neural network implementation for classifying types of arrhythmia recordings with precise aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty. While Bayesian neural networks are useful for at sensory processing applications based on a small amount of noisy input data because they ... » read more

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