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...
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...
Backside Power Delivery Gears Up For 2nm Devices

By: Laura Peters

But this novel approach to optimizing logic performance depends on advancing lithography, etching, polishing, and bonding processes.

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Top Stories

What’s Missing In 2.5D EDA Tools

While it's possible to create interposer-based systems today, the tools and methodologi...

Interconnects Essential To Heterogeneous Integration

Chiplet communication will be impossible without interconnect protocols.

Engineers Or Their Tools: Which Is Responsible For Finding Bugs?

As chips become more complex, the tools used to test them need to get smarter.

V2X Security Is Multi-faceted, And Not All There

Understanding how many different pieces will fit together is a prerequisite to a secure...

Early STEM Education Key To Growing Future Chip Workforce

Community outreach and partnerships can drive interest in STEM subjects and chip jobs a...

Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Ramps Up

The promise of photonics ICs is spurring innovation, but complex processes and a lack o...

Powering CFETs From The Backside

Next-gen transistors will benefit from the new power delivery scheme, but there are ple...

3D-IC Intensifies Demand For Multi-Physics Simulation

New challenges are driving big changes throughout the design flow, from tools to job re...

Optimizing Energy At The System Level

A lot of effort has gone into optimization of hardware during implementation, but that ...

Backside Power Delivery Adds New Thermal Concerns

Lack of shielding, routing issues, and new mechanical stresses could have broad impact ...

Photonics: The Former And Future Solution

Twenty-five years ago, photonics was supposed to be the future of high technology. Has ...

Security Is Critical For Commercial Chiplets

Data management, trust, traceability, and provenance tracking are essential to making a...

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Latest News

Blog Review: Mar. 27

Chiplets speed auto design; Ethernet interoperability; rigid flex PCBs; edge transformer models.

Chip Industry Week In Review

U.S. IC strategy; Synopsys' latest buy; Intel's $8.5B funding; Cadence's AI digital twin for data centers; Apple sued for antitrust over iPhone; ASE's chiplet int...

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Research

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: March 26

U.S. strategy on microelectronics; standard cell layout automa...

Research Bits: March 26

Skyrmion switches; helical magnets; silicon-compatible magneti...

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 19

UCIe-3D; LLMs for EDA, HW design; reprogrammable light-based p...

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Startup Corner

Startup Funding: February 2024

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

Startup Funding: January 2024

Chiplet packaging, AI, and quantum draw investment; 20 startup...

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