3+ day, 42+ min ago   (454+ words) 12-inch high-NA EUV masks; Arm’s edge AI push; Amkor’s expansion; 3D memory; FeRAM startup makes waves; Qualcomm-AWS $60B custom silicon deal; Ayar Labs’ scale-up deal; new iPhone chip and format; rogue OpenAI agents in Germany; fab factory; fine-pitch RDL tech for advanced…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (473+ words) By Guy Cortez, Dan Alexandrescu, and Aaron Barker The semiconductor industry has invested heavily in embedded monitors to gain visibility into advanced silicon. Those monitors are essential, but the next step is not simply to collect a larger volume of…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (278+ words) Semiconductor manufacturing generates enormous volumes of data, yet only a fraction of it is analyzed. To quote a recent article from an industry analyst: “Beneath this growth lies a structural shift. Manufacturing complexity is rising faster than the industry’s ability…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1623+ words) Google, Amazon, and now OpenAI have competitive offerings and are gaining share. GPUs are 70% of installed worldwide AI compute capacity by manufacturer (see figure 1), with custom silicon accounting for 30%, primarily Google and Amazon. Fig. 1: Current installed worldwide AI compute capacity…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (109+ words) HBF for LLM inference; M3D SRAM with BEOL pass-gates at 2nm; distributed GPU architectures; hybrid HBM-HBF memory; GaN-on-silicon polarization superjunctions; programmable silicon photonics; Al dopant activation in 4H-SiC. The post Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sept. 8 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering. Chip…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) Robots and autonomous vehicles are both edge devices, but a humanoid has wheels as well as fingers. Close interaction with humans raises the stakes. The market for robots and humanoids is growing rapidly for industrial applications, but it’s poised for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) SE: Does the industry have a good understanding of the impact of AI on PQC? SE: How soon? Shouldn’t it have already happened? Petr: Assuming there are people in that stack who can do that. Giles: I completely agree. It…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (239+ words) Compared to Intel 18A, the new architecture lowers external resistance by approximately 20% for NMOS devices and 12% for PMOS devices, enabling higher drive current and higher operating frequencies at matched capacitance.² As a result, Power Boost helps designers extract more performance from…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (98+ words) Semiconductor Engineering Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Sep. 1 Wafer-scale optical interconnects for LLM training; Rowhammer-based inference attacks; 3D-IC test cases; liquid cooling for 2.5D/3D packages; wafer-scale 2D semi growth; DL-based parameter extraction for 2D transistors; and chip-placement optimization. New technical papers recently added…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (815+ words) Part I – Pioneering work in developing CFET-critical modules: an improved backside contact module and a novel gate stack for threshold voltage tuning. By Cassie Sheng, Hiroaki Arimura, and Naoto Horiguchi The semiconductor industry is going through a major architectural transition,…...