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

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

Chip Industry Week in Review


The U.S. is considering annual approvals for Samsung and SK hynix to export chipmaking tools and materials to their factories in China, replacing perpetual waivers granted under the validated end user system, reports Bloomberg. The proposal, presented by the U.S. Commerce Department to South Korean officials, would require the companies to reapply each year for specific quantities of restricted... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=471 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Overview of Incorporating LLMs into EDA, With 3 Case Studies (TU Munich et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Large Language Models (LLMs) for Electronic Design Automation (EDA)" was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich, University of Stuttgart, New York University, and University of Siegen. Abstract "With the growing complexity of modern integrated circuits, hardware engineers are required to devote more effort to the full design-to-manufactu... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 6


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=427 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Investigation Of Self-Heating Effects on Fe-FinFETs On IMC Applications (TU Munich, IIT, U. Stuttgart)


A new technical paper titled "Investigating Self-Heating Effects in Ferroelectric FinFETs for Reliable In-Memory Computing" was published by researchers at TU Munich, University of Stuttgart and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Abstract "Ferroelectric (Fe) FET has emerged as a promising candidate for efficient in-memory computing due to its properties, such as non-volatility and lo... » read more

Research Bits: Feb. 4


High-power diamond transistors Researchers from the University of Glasgow, RMIT University, and Princeton University created a new diamond transistor for high-power electronics that remains switched off by default. The performance of the diamond was improved by coating it in hydrogen atoms followed by layers of aluminum oxide. “The challenge for power electronics is that the design of the... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 28


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=400 /] Find all technical papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


The new Trump administration was quick to put a different stamp on the tech world: President Trump rescinded a long list of Biden’s executive orders, including those aimed at AI safety and the mandate for 50% EVs by 2030. Roughly 1.3 million EVs were sold in the U.S. in 2024, up 7.3% from 2023. The new administration announced $500 billion ($100 billion initially) in private sector in... » read more

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