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Semiconductors
Chip design, foundries, supply chains and export controls.
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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to establish CORE initiative to support semiconductor design and manufacturing
First phase will see launch of Design Solution Associates project
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Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 6
Low-contact-resistance WSe₂ transistors; backside clock meshes for 2nm GAAFETs; row-parallel processing in DRAM; HBF for high-throughput LLM serving; formal security analysis of CAN XL; abstraction and validation from physical devices to…
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Advancing The CFET-Based Device Roadmap: Novel Integration Modules And Standard Cell Configurations
Part 2: Towards scalable sCFET standard cell architectures: split-gate devices, a 5T+1 CFET SRAM bit cell, and improved back-end-of-line routability.
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Backside Clock Meshes Cut Skew and Power in 2nm Nanosheets (UCSC)
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz published a technical paper titled “Design Space Exploration of Backside Clock Meshes for 2 nm GAAFET BSPDN Technology.” Abstract Excerpt: “Clock meshes are used in high-performance…
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Reducing Contact Resistance Pushes 2D Transistors Toward Advanced CMOS (HUST, PolyU, UCSB, NUS)
Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of California, Santa Barbara, and National University of Singapore published a technical paper titled “Low contact resistance and…
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New memory player CXMT begins mass production of DRAM platform
Chinese memory-chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform, marking another step in the company’s effort to stand alongside the big three memory makers…
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Elon Musk confirms TeraFab discussions between SpaceX and TSMC, says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI
Follows reports that TSMC is mulling over plans for a chip manufacturing hub in Texas
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Extreme Environments Push Chips To Their Breaking Point
Orbital data centers, defense systems, quantum computing, particle physics, and advanced manufacturing are raising the bar for simulation, test, and lab tools.
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The Proof Economy
As artificial intelligence makes creation abundant, proof becomes the new scarcity.