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  • President Donald Trump has initially excluded semiconductors from his latest round of U.S. tariffs. However, he could put tariffs on semiconductors in the future. If tariffs are placed on semiconductors imported to the U.S., how would that affect U.S.-based semiconductor companies? The chart below shows U.S. semiconductor… Read More The post Semiconductor Tariff Impact appeared […]
  • At NVIDIA’s recent GTC conference, a Cadence-NVIDIA joint session provided insights into how AI-powered innovation is reshaping the future of data center infrastructure. Led by Kourosh Nemati, Senior Data Center Cooling and Infrastructure Engineer from NVIDIA and Sherman Ikemoto, Sales Development Group Director from … Read More The post Designing and Simulating Next Generation Data […]
  • Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, is a physicist and innovator driving advancements in photonic computing and sensing technologies. With a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, he leads Q.ANT’s development of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) technology, delivering groundbreaking energy efficiency … Read More The post CEO Interview with Dr. […]
  • IC designs need to operate reliably under varying conditions and avoid inefficiencies like leakage across power domains. But how do you verify that connections between IP blocks has been done properly? This is where reliability verification, Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) tools and dynamic simulations all come into play particularly… Read More The post Verifying Leakage […]
  • At the 2025 NVIDIA GTC Conference, CEO Jensen Huang delivered a sweeping keynote that painted the future of computing in bold strokes: a world powered by AI factories, built on accelerated computing, and driven by agentic, embodied AI capable of interacting with the physical world. He introduced the concept of Physical AI—intelligence… Read More The […]
  • A new technical paper titled “Hardware-based Heterogeneous Memory Management for Large Language Model Inference” was published by researchers at KAIST and Stanford University. Abstract “A large language model (LLM) is one of the most important emerging machine learning applications nowadays. However, due to its huge model size and runtime increase of the memory footprint, LLM… […]
  • GenAI for analog; water immersion cooling; 2D materials roadmap; stochastic computing ReRAM; sub-10nm nanogap; pre-silicon HW trojans; C2RAM on FDSOI; cache coherence traffic for NoC routing; HW IP protection. The post Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Apr. 22 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Photonic AI: Heterogeneous integration; nonlinear neural network training; acoustically-mediated activation function. The post Research Bits: April 22 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Data sharing becomes more challenging when AI and multi-die assemblies are involved. The post Secure Handling Of Financial Data In Manufacturing appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Determining the impact of temperature on electrical performance. The post Co-Design Optimization For PI/SI When Considering Thermal Performance appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • TSMC, ASML earnings; 2nm processor; HBM4; touch controllers for foldable OLED displays; $500B AI supercomputer buildout; NVIDIA, AMD export licenses; Cadence's acquisition; DRAM, NAND flash; rare earths dry up; new EV chips. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Wafer thinning and TSV formation can introduce mechanical stress and impact device integrity in advanced transistor architectures. The post The Other Side Of The Wafer: Transistor Channel Stress In Backside Power Delivery Networks appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • GPUs provide better speed and capacity for very large designs, enabling design and system technology co-optimization. The post TCAD For GPUs And GPUs For TCAD appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • The economics are not yet clear for industrial or consumer electronics. The post Can Chiplets Serve Cost-Conscious Apps? appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Enhancing the performance and reliability of power modules through thermal management. The post Innovation And Collaboration In Power Module Packaging: A Thermal Perspective appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.