What hasn’t Mark Papermaster accomplished? He’s the engineer and exec who impacted Apple’s iPhones and iPods, the IBM Power PC, and has led AMD's…
What hasn’t Mark Papermaster accomplished? He’s the engineer and exec who impacted Apple’s iPhones and iPods, the IBM Power PC, and has led AMD's remarkable rejuvenation from a company that “may have lost their way” to surpassing Intel’s market cap.
Taking EDA to the cloud, Synopsys’ new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for EDA and IC design raise the question:…
Taking EDA to the cloud, Synopsys’ new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for EDA and IC design raise the question: is cloud computing a good choice for chip design?
In honor of Woman’s History Month, AAC talked with Micron’s Thy Tran who has made waves in the industry, inspiring…
In honor of Woman’s History Month, AAC talked with Micron’s Thy Tran who has made waves in the industry, inspiring new engineers and helping to bring groundbreaking DRAM technology to life.
Groq’s chip architecture is something all electrical engineers will drool over. It not only focuses on high-performance…
Groq’s chip architecture is something all electrical engineers will drool over. It not only focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), but it can do 1 PetaOp—1 quadrillion operations per second. “Which is four commas, not three... yeah,” Groq’s CEO Jonathan Ross emphasizes while confirming it is indeed 300X faster than NVIDIA’s chip. This “successful college dropout” designed Google’s TPU (tensor processing unit) and came up with $10B ideas at X - the moonshot factory, but “never in a million years” thought he’d be Groq’s CEO.
To overcome Moore's Law and die-to-die interconnection issues, the world’s top companies are turning to chiplet design…
To overcome Moore's Law and die-to-die interconnection issues, the world’s top companies are turning to chiplet design for their next-generation computing hardware.
As photonics technology seeks its niche in the industry, one hurdle to overcome is a scalable fabrication process. One…
As photonics technology seeks its niche in the industry, one hurdle to overcome is a scalable fabrication process. One technique called photonic wire bonding (PWB) hopes to push photonics forward.
Continuing to unpack NVIDIA's GTC Conference releases, one stand out was the Hopper architecture targeting…
Continuing to unpack NVIDIA's GTC Conference releases, one stand out was the Hopper architecture targeting high-performance computing (HPC) and AI/machine learning.
In this article, learn about protecting three major base station systems, the baseband unit, the power supply, and the…
In this article, learn about protecting three major base station systems, the baseband unit, the power supply, and the backup battery system.
In December, IBM and Samsung announced a new transistor architecture said to defy conventional FinFETs. We spoke with two…
In December, IBM and Samsung announced a new transistor architecture said to defy conventional FinFETs. We spoke with two of IBM's leading researchers on this project for details.
Researchers around the world are continually finding new ways to prolong Moore's law. Now, Purdue researchers have found…
Researchers around the world are continually finding new ways to prolong Moore's law. Now, Purdue researchers have found another means to this end: using an atomic layer deposition technique for indium oxide-based transistors.
While Shockley Semiconductor may have been the first company of Silicon Valley, it was Fairchild Semiconductor—founded…
While Shockley Semiconductor may have been the first company of Silicon Valley, it was Fairchild Semiconductor—founded by eight former Shockley engineers—who proliferated thousands of tech companies.
The race to beat out silicon (Si) for the "best" semiconductor continues with a rush of gallium nitride (GaN)…
The race to beat out silicon (Si) for the "best" semiconductor continues with a rush of gallium nitride (GaN) announcements focusing on creating and furthering GaN-based device designs.
Space, the "final frontier," has been a growing area of interest, especially for electronic devices. Companies like…
Space, the "final frontier," has been a growing area of interest, especially for electronic devices. Companies like Microchip, BAE Systems, Intel, CAES, and Lattice Semiconductor take aim for better space-rated IC design.
The EU is following the U.S. in enacting its own chips act to stimulate the global semiconductor industry.
The EU is following the U.S. in enacting its own chips act to stimulate the global semiconductor industry.
Researchers from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) have brought an old charge pumping technique…
Researchers from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) have brought an old charge pumping technique back to life to ensure transistor quality, revitalizing it as "Frequency Modulated Charge Pumping."
If pushing transistor scaling through advanced silicon field effect transistor (FET) structures like forksheet wasn’t…
If pushing transistor scaling through advanced silicon field effect transistor (FET) structures like forksheet wasn’t enough, Intel is now looking to stack those transistors in the Z dimension for improved circuit density and performance.
This article covers undesired switching events, known as hazards, that can occur when developing combinational logic circuits.
This article covers undesired switching events, known as hazards, that can occur when developing combinational logic circuits.
Gate-level implementation of logic functions is limited by the gate fan-in. This article examines logic factoring,…
Gate-level implementation of logic functions is limited by the gate fan-in. This article examines logic factoring, grouping, and level increases to implement logic functions with limited input gates.
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