Special Reports

Digital Twins Target IC Tool And Fab Efficiency

By: Laura Peters

Virtual representations will improve performance and productivity across the entire design through manufacturing flow, but deployments will vary in effectiveness...
Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Ramps Up

By: Gregory Haley

The promise of photonics ICs is spurring innovation, but complex processes and a lack of open foundries are keeping it...
The Rising Price Of Power In Chips

By: Ed Sperling

More data requires faster processing, which leads to a whole bunch of problems — not all of which are obvious...

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Top Stories

Architecting Chips For High-Performance Computing

Data center IC designs are evolving, based on workloads, but making the tradeoffs for t...

Memory On Logic: The Good And Bad

Do the benefits outweigh the costs of using memory on logic as a stepping-stone toward ...

Using AI/ML To Minimize IR Drop

Heterogeneous and advanced-node designs are creating unexpected post-layout challenges ...

Linear Drive Optics May Reduce Data Latency

As data demands increase, the photonics industry tries new solutions.

IC Test And Quality Requirements Drive New Collaboration

Tight integration of test equipment, monitors, and analytics are beyond the scope of on...

Progress In Wafer And Package Level Defect Inspection

Advances in imaging systems aim to improve throughput without sacrificing measurement a...

New Strategies For Interpreting Data Variability

Engineers are using multiple visual and statistical methods to separate anomalies from ...

Quantum Computing Challenged By Security, Error Correction

Cryptographers scramble for better security schemes, while physicists try to fix qubit ...

Data Center Security Issues Widen

The number and breadth of hardware targets is increasing, but older attack vectors are ...

AI Takes Aim At Chip Industry Workforce Training

New tools can boost efficiency, improve training, and reduce knowledge loss in organiza...

NoCs In 3D Space

The network on chip has become essential for complex designs, but it needs to evolve to...

The Challenges Of Working With Photonics

From curvilinear designs to thermal vulnerabilities, what engineers need to know about ...

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Latest News

Chip Industry Week In Review

Applied Materials' $4B facility at risk; AI chip bonanza; Japan, U.S. alliance; Rapidus' U.S. subsidiary; EDA revenue up; TSMC $6.6B funding; Infineon, Amkor team...

Blog Review: April 10

LPDDR's new markets; superconductor IC parasitic extraction; shift left on HPC efficiency; STEM education.

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Research

Research Bits: April 16

Tunable thermal conductivity in memristors; amorphous oxide se...

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: April 8

Verification of memory consistency; mitigating IR drop; IBM's ...

Research Bits: April 8

Annealing processor; microwave signal generation; phase change...

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Startup Corner

Startup Funding: March 2024

Investors connect with interconnects; $1.1 billion for 39 comp...

Startup Funding: February 2024

Power electronics, data center interconnects among 49 startups...

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