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: Jan. 20


Self-correcting memristor array Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and Yonsei University developed a memristor-based neuromorphic chip that can learn and correct errors, enabling it to adapt to immediate environmental changes. The system c... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Adam Kovac, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan. Cadence plans to acquire BETA CAE Systems for $1.24 billion, the latest volley in a race to sell multi-physics simulation and analysis across a broad set of customers with deep pockets. Cadence said the deal opens the door to structural analysis for the automotive, aerospace, industrial, and health care sectors. Under the terms of the agreement, 6... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Dec 5


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=171 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

Engineering chirality at wafer scale with ordered CNT architecture (Rice University and others)


A new technical paper titled "Engineering chirality at wafer scale with ordered carbon nanotube architectures" was published by researchers at Rice University, University of Utah, J.A. Woollam Co. and Tokyo Metropolitan University. Abstract "Creating artificial matter with controllable chirality in a simple and scalable manner brings new opportunities to diverse areas. Here we show two su... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: May 24


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week.   [table id=29 /] 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 ... » read more

A Methodology for Automatic eFPGA redaction


New academic paper titled "ALICE: An Automatic Design Flow for eFPGA Redaction" from researchers at Politecnico di Milano, New York University, University of Calgary, and the University of Utah. Abstract "Fabricating an integrated circuit is becoming unaffordable for many semiconductor design houses. Outsourcing the fabrication to a third-party foundry requires methods to protect the intell... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 10


Muscle-tracking clothing Researchers from the University of Utah and Gyeongsang National University developed a low-cost bioelectrical sensor that can be integrated into clothing. The sensor measures electromyography (EMG) signals that are generated in muscles when they contract. EMG signals are useful for studying muscle fatigue and recovery and could potentially be used to inform diagnosi... » read more

FORMS: Fine-grained Polarized ReRAM-based In-situ Computation for Mixed-signal DNN Accelerator


Abstract: "Recent work demonstrated the promise of using resistive random access memory (ReRAM) as an emerging technology to perform inherently parallel analog domain in-situ matrix-vector multiplication—the intensive and key computation in deep neural networks (DNNs). One key problem is the weights that are signed values. However, in a ReRAM crossbar, weights are stored as conductance of... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: July 6


Luminosity record Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) has regained the world’s record for the highest luminosity achieved in a particle accelerator, beating the previous mark by CERN. KEK achieved the record in the SuperKEKB, a giant storage ring that combines an electron-positron collider with an advanced detector. This system is designed to explore fundamental ... » read more

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