San Francisco — The semiconductor industry's battle with design-for-manufacturing challenges is mainly focused on the resolution enhancement technology (RET) front, with EDA executives saying that as ...

In the world of electric (EV) and software-defined vehicles (SDV), a key challenge and opportunity besets original equipment manufacturers (OEM): that of effectively harnessing in-vehicle and silicon ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — After spending time with venture capital companies reviewing business plans for design-for-manufacturability startups, Atul Sharan and Yao-Ting Wang decided they could do a better ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE have developed a silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell utilizing intense pulsed light-processed screen-printed metal contacts, and claim to have achieved a ...

High-volume products get more than their fair share of attention in the semiconductor world, but most chips don’t fit into that category. While a few huge fabs and offshore assembly and test (OSAT) ...

Researchers have developed the first in-sensor processor that could be integrated into commercial silicon imaging sensor chips -- known as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors ...

Made of silicon, these in-sensor visual processing arrays can both capture and process visual data in the analog domain, as opposed to conventional systems that often physically separate these ...

High-end wireless and cellular networks rely on light for the distribution of signals. The selective processing of such signals requires long delays: too long to support on a chip using light alone. A ...