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Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

Chiplet Design Hopes to Rise Up as a Contender for Sidestepping Moore’s Law

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.


News Mar 28, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

Photonic Wire Bonding Process Could Open Door to More Photonic Electronics

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.


News Mar 26, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
Nvidia’s Hopper Architecture Leaps in With Tons of New Tech for HPC and AI

Nvidia’s Hopper Architecture Leaps in With Tons of New Tech for HPC and AI

Continuing to unpack NVIDIA's GTC Conference releases, one stand out was the Hopper architecture targeting high-performance computing (HPC) and AI/machine learning.


News Mar 24, 2022 by Jake Hertz
AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

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.


News Mar 07, 2022 by Ingrid Fadelli
Indium Oxide Semiconductors May Keep Moore’s Law Going

Indium Oxide Semiconductors May Keep Moore’s Law Going

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.


News Feb 28, 2022 by Darshil Patel
The “Traitorous Eight” and the Rise of Fairchild Semiconductor

The “Traitorous Eight” and the Rise of Fairchild Semiconductor

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.


News Feb 28, 2022 by Tyler Charboneau
GaN Keeps a Steady Pace Into 2022 With a Focus on Design

GaN Keeps a Steady Pace Into 2022 With a Focus on Design

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.


SpaceX Loses 40 Satellites to Radiation: Spotlight on Rad-hard IC Design

SpaceX Loses 40 Satellites to Radiation: Spotlight on Rad-hard IC Design

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.


News Feb 14, 2022 by Darshil Patel
EU Officially Puts Forward Its Own Chips Act

EU Officially Puts Forward Its Own Chips Act

The EU is following the U.S. in enacting its own chips act to stimulate the global semiconductor industry.


News Feb 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Revitalizing Charge Pump Techniques: NIST Improves Transistor Defect Detection

Revitalizing Charge Pump Techniques: NIST Improves Transistor Defect Detection

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."


News Feb 07, 2022 by Jake Hertz
A Farewell to FinFETs: Intel Goes 3D With Stacked Forksheet Transistor

A Farewell to FinFETs: Intel Goes 3D With Stacked Forksheet Transistor

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.


News Jan 31, 2022 by Dale Wilson
Rekindled Focus on Space Exploration Yields Advances in Rad-hard ICs

Rekindled Focus on Space Exploration Yields Advances in Rad-hard ICs

As the goals for space exploration become more ambitious, the requirements of space-grade ICs are stacking high.


News Dec 24, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Around the Industry: Examples of How Complex ICs Require Complex Design Tools

Around the Industry: Examples of How Complex ICs Require Complex Design Tools

Industries like aerospace and defense are only raising the bar on IC requirements. Here are a few recently announced tools helping IC designers meet the task.


News Dec 21, 2021 by Ikimi .O
IBM and Samsung Team Up to “Defy Conventional Transistor Design”

IBM and Samsung Team Up to “Defy Conventional Transistor Design”

A new transistor architecture from IBM and Samsung may revitalize Moore’s law.


News Dec 16, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Intel’s FPGA Day Unveils 3 Collabs to Create More FPGA-based IPU Designs

Intel’s FPGA Day Unveils 3 Collabs to Create More FPGA-based IPU Designs

Seeing these advantages of using field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology, this week is Intel's FPGA Day, which just announced a collab to further FPGA-based infrastructure processing units (IPUs).


News Dec 09, 2021 by Jake Hertz
From Cryo-CMOS to Quantum Computers: 3 Projects Partner With Oxford Instruments

From Cryo-CMOS to Quantum Computers: 3 Projects Partner With Oxford Instruments

Quantum technology has been a booming industry, with companies and researchers alike trying to push it to a mainstream level. Hoping to do just that, Oxford Instruments Nanoscience is partnering with three new projects.


News Dec 03, 2021 by Ikimi .O
Is Texas America’s Rising Semiconductor Hotspot?

Is Texas America’s Rising Semiconductor Hotspot?

In the past few weeks, big names like Samsung and Tesla have been flocking to establish fabs in the Lone Star state. What about Texas is drawing in hardware heavy hitters?


News Dec 03, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
CMOS Technology Leaps to New Levels With Latest sCMOS and qCMOS Sensors

CMOS Technology Leaps to New Levels With Latest sCMOS and qCMOS Sensors

Scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (sCMOS), a type of CMOS image sensor (CIS) with stringent noise specifications, appears to be entering its 4th generation era in 2021.


News Dec 01, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Kneron’s RISC-V AI Chip Intends to Bring L1 and L2 Autonomy to “Any Vehicle”

Kneron’s RISC-V AI Chip Intends to Bring L1 and L2 Autonomy to “Any Vehicle”

The push for autonomous vehicles has seen a lot of momentum for 2021. Aiming to keep it going is a new AI chip from Kneron that claims to bring the capacity for autonomous driving capabilities to any vehicle.


News Nov 08, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Cadence’s HiFi 1 DSP Leverages New LC3 Codec for Improved Audio Systems

Cadence’s HiFi 1 DSP Leverages New LC3 Codec for Improved Audio Systems

A new codec, LC3, included in Cadence's HiFi 1 DSP, is set to bring new features for designers to exploit in their Bluetooth Audio (LE Audio) profile applications, including Multi-Stream and Broadcast audio.


News Nov 01, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons