Lam Buys Simulation Software Firm Coventor
Deal brings fab tool vendor new capabilities to expand on its vision of virtual fabrication.
Facebook Shows Smartphone AI
2017-09-02 08:00:39Facebook Shows Smartphone AI
Facebook demoed neural network inference in smartphones at its @Scale event, where a researcher described work on DNA storage.
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Facebook Shows Smartphone AI, DNA Storage
Facebook demoed neural network inference in smartphones at its @Scale event, where a researcher described work on DNA storage.
DARPA's ICECool Chills 3-D Stacks
Working under DARPA's ICECool program, IBM and Georgia Tech replaced water cooling with a liquid dielectric that can run between the chips in a 3-D stack without shorting them out.
Ex-Baidu Scientist Blazes AI Shortcut
Ren Wu, formerly a distinguished scientist at Baidu, has pulled a new AI chip company out of his sleeve, called NovuMind. In an exclusive interview with EE Times, Wu discussed the startup's developmen
The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: HP Garage
Take a private tour in pictures of where technology giant began, in a tiny garage in Palo Alto, CA.
Siemens Doubles Down on Automotive Simulation
Siemens agreed to buy Tass International, a Dutch simulation software company. The deal adds automated driving solutions to Siemens' portfolio. Siemens will combine Tass' simulation software with Ment
IEEE Drives Definitions for Quantum Computing
The technical professional organization's project will establish a general nomenclature for quantum computing to standardize communication with related hardware and software projects
Western Digital Buys Flash Array Vendor Tegile
Drive vendor says deal for provider of IntelliFlash products will give it access to more than 1,700 new customers.
IBM Boosts Brain Understanding
IBM creates a neurogenetic online dictionary learning model to prove its hypothesis that neurogenesis-based sparse dictionary learning is just as important as deep learning.
Google Calls for Network Drain-O
A Google engineer described new techniques for managing network traffic in data centers, and Mellanox claims it ships it in one Ethernet adapter.
Samsung to Invest $7 Billion in China Fab
Samsung will invest $7 billion over a three-year period to ramp up a Chinese fab to expand production of NAND flash memory that's in strong demand for smartphones and other mobile devices.
Chief of Q'comm's Licensing Biz to Step Down
Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm, will resign at the end of 2017 after 17 years with the fabless chip firm.
Fab Tool Sales Show Signs of Coming Back to Earth
Billings rose for North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers for a 10th consecutive month in July, but declined on a sequential basis for the first time since January.
Brain Research Reimagines AI
2017-08-29 06:00:14Brain Research Reimagines AI
Work on interfaces linking neurons and electronics may create breakthroughs in both health care and machine learning.
Magnetic Skyrmions Hold Promise for Next-Gen Memory Devices
Researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research and Nanyang Technological University have created a thin film material that allows them to control the size and density of magnet
Movidius Beefs up HW Acceleration in AI Chip
Movidius launched Myriad X vision processing unit. While Myriad 2, its previous chip, was doing a lot of neural network workload in software, Myriad X is packed with more microarchitecture to accelera
MediaTek Rolls New Smartphone Chips
MediaTek, the second-ranked smartphone chip supplier after Qualcomm, is launching a pair of new SoCs for middle-tier handsets that the company expects to lead market growth as the high end loses momen
AI OS 'Orchestrates' Cognition
The Conductor layer in Veritone's aiWare artificial-intelligence operating system orchestrates 112 specialized pattern-recognition engines to achieve more accurate results in less time.
ASML Claims Major EUV Milestone
Litho vendor claims elusive source power target as dawn of EUV era inches closer.
Samsung Verdict Jolts South Korea
A five-year sentence for Samsung Group's boss will shake up Korea's conglomerates but is not expected to impact surging electronics businesses.
Using mmWave Tech to Redefine Connectors
Keyssa, with its 60GHz mmWave tech, has no interest in a wireless horse race. It wants the connector market. The company sees an opening, as managing higher speed signals using copper is becoming too
Everspin Appoints New CEO
2017-08-25 13:00:34Everspin Appoints New CEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) supplier Everspin Technologies Inc. announced it is replacing its CEO ...
16 Views of Hot Chips '17
2017-08-25 07:00:5216 Views of Hot Chips '17
Machine learning was the dominant theme of Hot Chips 2017 with talks by data center giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Baidu.
Western Digital May Get Toshiba Memory After All
New consortium reportedly has inside track with $17.3 billion bid.
Flash Memory Shortage Hits Smartphone Supply
Rising prices and limited availability of flash memory and OLED displays expected to affect sales of premium smartphones in the second half of the year, Gartner says.
Chip Capex Expected to Soar 20%
Semiconductor industry capital spending will soar by 20 percent this year, largely driven by Samsung, according to market watcher IC Insights. The key driver behind strong growth this year has been th
Magnetoelectric RAM Slashes Energy
French and Russian researchers built and demonstrated a magnetoelectric RAM (MELRAM) cell that requires 10,000x less current to read/write than traditional DRAM.
Google Fellow: Neural Nets Need Optimized Hardware
Jeff Dean, leader of the Google Brain project, told an audience at the Hot Chips conference that neural networks need specialized computers to perform a small handful of specific operations that make
Hot Chips Spotlights Chip Stacks
Intel and Xilinx presented dueling chip stacking techniques at Hot Chips as a U.S. research effort gears up to create standards for chiplets.
Laser Lighting Trial Starting in China
For perhaps the first time in the world, trials taking place in China next month will use lasers for street lighting, an innovation aimed at saving energy and eliminating the cost of expensive cablin
NAND Prices Expected to Continue Rising
Market watcher says supply will remain tight until later in 2018, when 3D NAND production reaches maturity.
Microsoft Describes Next Xbox SoC
Microsoft described at Hot Chips its Scorpio SoC in the upcoming Xbox One X and it decision not to use high-bandwidth memory.
Startup Unveils Graph Processor at Hot Chips
ThinCI, a five-year-old startup in California, presented Monday at the Hot Chips symposium the company’s “Graph Streamin ...
WSTS Revises Chip Growth Forecast to 17%
Data from more than 50 member companies points to strongest industry growth since 2010.
NVMe Will Oust SCSI by 2020
2017-08-22 01:00:46NVMe Will Oust SCSI by 2020
With a minimal premium on NVMe SSDs, the interface is expected to quickly become the defacto standard in storage arrays.
Rambus Adds Security to RISC-V
Startup SiFive partnered with Rambus for a crypto core that becomes the first member of its DesignShare third-party IP program for RISC-V.
Small Accelerator, Big Promise
Brookhaven Lab used a 3-D printer and permanent magnets to produce a proof-of-concept desktop electron-beam accelerator for physics research and cancer treatment.
Q'comm Details ARM Server SoCs
Qualcomm will describe at Hot Chips the Falkor dual-CPU custom ARM core in its Centriq server processor slated to ship later this year.
DRAM Supply Improves Amid Record Sales
The DRAM shortage improved in the second quarter as sales hit an all-time high of more than $16.5 billion, according to a market watcher.
Startup Runs MCU on 5 MicroW
2017-08-18 13:00:25Startup Runs MCU on 5 MicroW
Startup Eta Compute will demo at Hot Chips a Cortex-M3 running at 5 microW, targeting SoCs run on energy harvesters for the Internet of Things.
Can ST Unseat NXP in iPhone NFC?
When Apple next month rolls out its new iPhones, whose NFC chip will be inside? Right now, ST is keeping mum. Most analysts remain skeptical of the possibility, although some said it's
AI Sees New Apps, Chips, says Q'comm
Neural networks for machine learning will be applied to new applications and create new hardware designs, said a Qualcomm researcher.
Intel Banks on Artificial Intelligence
Intel is investing in artificial-intelligence startups, acquiring others, and blending the mix with its own AI expertise to ensure a leadership position in machine learning, deep learning, and brainli
New Security Worry: DNA-borne Malware
UW researchers coded malware into a DNA strand that spread to the sequencing software and opened a backdoor to a computer, exposing a little-considered cyber vulnerability.
ThinCI Q&A on Deep-Learning
2017-08-16 14:00:27ThinCI Q&A on Deep-Learning
ThinCI will detail next week at Hot Chips its deep learning processor. Last week, Denso revealed a new subsidiary to develop IP cores for automated driving. We caught up with ThinCI CEO to connect the
ReRAM Goes 3D
2017-08-16 05:00:49ReRAM Goes 3D
The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has reinvented its resistive-RAM process to achieve a ReRAM that is amenable to 3D stacking, giving the
Semiconductor Industry Backs Trump's China Probe
Semiconductor Industry Association applauds President's investigation into China's policies and practices around intellectual property.
IoT Rolls Up its Sleeves
2017-08-15 13:00:14IoT Rolls Up its Sleeves
Hype for the Internet of Things is over and the hard work designing products, deployments and tacking issues like security has just begun.