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Latest posts by Semiconductor Engineering @semiengineering

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Chip Industry Week In Review AI integrity attacks; US weighs more AI chip authority; on-chip security controls; new chips at MWC; optical interconnect deals; CPO funding; 18A; diary of advanced lithographer; domain-scoped agentic...

Latest news in the semiconductor sector semiengineering.com/chip-industr...
#semiconductor

06.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Automotive Architectures Are Shaking Up Processor And Memory Choices Exponential increases in data and a mix of performance requirements are driving a top-to-bottom rethinking of what works best where.

An explosion of data from sensors for assisted and autonomous driving, and the need to make real-time decisions based on that data, are placing unprecedented demands on memory and storage subsystems in vehicles.
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#automotive

05.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Verifying Scale-Up And Scale-Out In Data Centers
Navigating a sea of standards and options in a rack and between racks. semiengineering.com/verifying-sc...

#DataCenters #ScaleUp #ScaleOut

04.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Hybrid Bonding Better Why this technology is so essential for multi-die assemblies, and how it can be improved.

The future of semiconductor manufacturing is no longer dependent just on shrinking features. Instead, chipmakers are rethinking how devices are built, stacked, and powered.
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#semiconductor #hybridbonding

02.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wi-Fi 7 Moves To The IoT What's behind the widespread adoption of extremely high-throughput wireless.

How Wi-Fi7 can manage different bands, how its capacity can be shared by multiple devices simultaneously, and how vendors are utilizing the standard’s different features.
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#IoT #WiFi7

01.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chip Industry Week In Review Rapidus' new $1.7B infusion; Intel and UMC leadership moves; faster EUV; $100B GPU deal; Arm-Tensor robocar; smartphone market to decline; HBF; $1B in AI chip funding; imec's mCFET study; monolithical...

Latest news in the semiconductor industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...
#semiconductor

27.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Using Data And AI More Effectively In EDA EDA produces a lot of data, but how useful is that for AI to consume? The industry looks at new ways to help AI do a better job.

Using Data And AI More Effectively In EDA
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26.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Back-End Automation Tackles Growing Complexity:
As semiconductor packaging complexity rises, the industry faces gaps in data, inspection, and process integration.
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25.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can A Computer Science Student Be Taught To Design Hardware? To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.

To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened. semiengineering.com/can-a-comput...

24.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Changes In Chip Architectures At The Edge
Changes In Chip Architectures At The Edge YouTube video by Semiconductor Engineering

Changes In Chip Architectures At The Edge
How to build an efficient and flexible multi-die system for edge AI.
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#edgeAI #edgecomputing #npu #DSP #datacenters

24.02.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Backside Power Delivery Creates Fab Tool, Thermal Dissipation Barriers Moving the power delivery network to the backside of a chip reduces congestion, but it introduces new challenges for fabs.

Semiconductor Engineering's latest special report semiengineering.com/backside-pow...
#BPD #semiconductor #BSPDN

23.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Indium Oxide Chips Are Getting So Much Attention Much work still needs to be done to make these materials reliable enough for commercialization.

Their low leakage is of interest for memory applications, particularly capacitor-less gain cell designs
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#semiconductor #IGZO

22.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chip Industry Week in Review ISSCC research blitz; $50M for agentic AI; 3D interconnects tool; Ultra Ethernet security; Watt's Law and power supply ceiling; Intel-Google security stress test; heat techniques; chip architectures a...

Latest news in the semiconductor ecosystem semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

20.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Automotive Week In Review EV batteries are lasting longer, and some are safer; Qualcomm-Tata alliance; SDV deal; Ford's UEV; auto chip deal; return of diesel and V8; Uber charger incentives; CAN attacks; radar for low power TH...

Latest automotive tech news semiengineering.com/automotive-w...
#automotive #SDVs #EVs #AVs #automotivetech #radar

22.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chip Industry Week in Review ISSCC research blitz; $50M for agentic AI; 3D interconnects tool; Ultra Ethernet security; Watt's Law and power supply ceiling; Intel-Google security stress test; heat techniques; chip architectures a...

Latest news in the semiconductor ecosystem semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

20.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Laser Arrays May Simplify Co-Packaged Optics Monolithic tunable lasers can adapt statically and dynamically.

The move to co-packaged optics (CPO) holds the promise of putting photonic ICs and electronic ICs into the same package.
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19.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minimum Energy Per Query How much of the energy consumed in an AI chip is spent doing something useful? This question affects everything from software to system architecture to chip design.

Heat is a serious problem within AI chips, and it is limiting how much processing can be done.
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#AIchips #heat #PowerConsumption #lowpower

18.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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UCIe's Major Technical Components Are Now In Place Version 3.0 of the interconnect standard doubles bandwidth and supports new use cases and enhanced manageability.

While UCIe was initially seen as feature-heavy, many of its management functions are optional, reducing adoption concerns and making the standard more flexible for developers.
semiengineering.com/ucies-major-...
#chiplets #UCIe

16.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Automotive Week In Review AI chip for SDVs; hypercar; automotive edge chip; Waymo's new GenAI model; neuromorphic detects motion 4X faster; sodium-ion battery; Ferrari-all electric; carmakers' recalibrations on EVs; batteries ...

This week in automotive tech news semiengineering.com/automotive-w...

#automotive #EVs #autonomousvehicles #SDVs #batteries

14.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chip Industry Week In Review Tighter controls on IC equipment; HBM4; design/verification AI super agent; new tool for AI adoption at scale; $200M funding for optical TPU; Imagination's new CEO; earnings blitz; Nexperia investigat...

Latest news in the semiconductor industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

13.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chiplets And 3D-ICs Add New Electrical And Mechanical Challenges Reliability is now a system-level concern that includes everything from materials and packaging to testing with backside power.

Chiplets and 3D-IC architectures add new thermal-mechanical stresses that can affect the reliability of entire systems.
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#chiplets

12.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SemiEngineering's latest Low Power-High Performance newsletter
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#NPUs #datacenters #GDDR7 #clockjitter
#MIPI #PCIe #semiconductor

11.02.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resistance In Advanced Packages Is Now A System-Level Problem Multi-die assemblies require the measurement of subtle changes at the precise point where they occur.

Kelvin measurement, which has been in use for decades, is no longer sufficient for addressing resistance in complex chips.
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#semiconductor

10.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Consumer, Med Tech Mushrooms As Quantum Closes In Bio-inspired medical devices can gather more data than ever before, and HPC/quantum will massively speed up discovery rates; consumer self-testing will be slower.

Major developments are occurring in the bio-medical space, where new types of devices made of unusual materials & gels can measure tiny lab-grown brain cells, & sensors can measure every environmental & bodily function, from blood to heart & everything in between
semiengineering.com/bio-neuro-de...

09.02.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Semiconductor Engineering's latest Test, Measurement and Analytics newsletter
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08.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chip Industry Week in Review Intel's GPU push; strong M&A; Lam-CEA deal; AI workload fundings; Z-Angle memory; TSMC 3nm in Japan; improving chip power delivery; Arm's expanded startup program; sleeper agent-style backdoors; VR fo...

Weekly news roundup for the chip industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

06.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Securing Hardware For The Quantum Era Quantum computers may become a security threat as early as next year, and that threat will continue to grow over the next several years.

Quantum computers may become a security threat as early as next year, and that threat will continue to grow over the next several years.
semiengineering.com/securing-har...

05.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Move To 2nm? Leading-edge chipmakers are starting to look at process node scaling very differently.

Power, performance, and area/cost are still the key metrics for chipmakers, yet how those metrics are weighted and implemented can vary significantly.
semiengineering.com/why-move-to-...
#2nm #semiconductor

04.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Multi-Die Assemblies Require More Detailed Test Plan Earlier Understanding connectivity issues and interactions are only part of the problem; ECOs can cause unexpected problems in other areas.

Multi-die assemblies are forcing engineering teams to map out how the various components will function and interact much earlier in the design process, and to develop a detailed plan for how they will be verified and tested. semiengineering.com/multi-die-as...
#semiconductor

03.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chiplet Fundamentals For Engineers: eBook A 65-page in-depth research report on the next phase of device scaling.

Ebook: Chiplet Fundamentals For Engineers: no charge
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#semiconductor #chiplets

02.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0