Special Reports

Die-to-die Interconnect Standards In Flux

By: Bryon Moyer

Many features of UCIe 2.0 seen as “heavy” are optional, causing confusion.
Three-Way Race To 3D-ICs

By: Ed Sperling

Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are developing a broad set of technologies and relationships that will be required for the next...
Backside Power Delivery Nears Production

By: Laura Peters

Breakthrough approach delivers better scaling and power efficiency, but at the cost of new processes like wafer thinning, bonding, and...

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Top Stories

Cooling Chips Still A Top Challenge

Heat pipes, lids, thermal interfaces, and micro-channel cooling help remove the heat ge...

Mask Complexity, Cost, And Change

Evolving lithography demands are challenging mask writing technology; shift to curvilin...

Advanced Packaging Depends On Materials And Co-Design

New materials play a pivotal role, but solving integration problems remains a challenge.

Future-proofing AI Models

The rate of change in AI algorithms complicates the decision-making process about what ...

More Data, More Redundant Interconnects

Circuits are being pushed harder and longer, particularly with AI, speeding up the agin...

Development Flows For Chiplets

A chiplet economy requires standards, organization, and tools — and that's a problem.

AI Accelerators Moving Out From Data Centers

Chiplets will be a key enabler for customizing designs at every level, from edge device...

Security Risks Mount For Aerospace, Defense Applications

Supply chain vulnerabilities, hardware attacks, and communications hacks are rife. Auto...

Identifying Sources Of Silent Data Corruption

Rooting out the causes of silent data corruption errors will require testing improvemen...

E-Beam Inspection Proves Essential For Advanced Nodes

Throughput remains an issue. A solution will require a combination of technologies.

Who Is Most Likely To Link Financial And Manufacturing Data?

Who is most affected by linking of financial data and why.

Radiation, Temperature, Power Challenges For Chips In Space

Semiconductors designed for spacecraft face a range of extreme conditions that impact a...

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Latest News

Chip Industry Week in Review

China's 3nm chip; state of the industry supply chain; imec's next big push; hyper-dimensional AI chip; OpenAI's $6.5B startup deal; Siemens buys Excellicon; chip ...

Blog Review: May 21

Multi-die challenges; PDN and jitter; DSPs for ToF; AI skills gap.

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Opinion

Photonics Speeds Up Data Center AI

Highlights from the Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2025.

TSMC Tech Symposium 2025

What's new and noteworthy in the foundry's aggressive technolo...

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Research

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 20

Reducing stress in chiplets; CFETs beyond 3nm; RISC-V eGPUs fo...

Research Bits: May 20

Smart fabrics: Sensing with acoustic waves; 3D printed softer ...

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 13

Memory-centric computing; warp-level features in Vortex RISC-V...

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Startup Corner

Startup Funding: Q1 2025

AI chips and data center communications see big funding; 75 st...

Startup Funding: Q4 2024

AI chips and interconnects end year on high note; $3 billion f...

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