The push toward 1-megawatt racks is forcing fundamental changes in data center architecture, including cooling, power delivery, rack design, and 3D-IC packaging. Higher rack densities may not be the ...

Hardware and software development has traditionally been disconnected, creating little opportunity to optimize system-level performance and energy consumption. Development swings between specialized ...

Data-center network fabrics are undergoing another architectural shift as optical interconnects assume a larger role in AI-cluster connectivity, extending into scale-up domains and influencing overall ...

As AI, high-performance computing, cloud workloads, and data-intensive enterprise applications continue to scale, server memory systems are under growing pressure to deliver more bandwidth, higher ...

Heterogeneous integration does not simply increase complexity but redistributes where quality must be assured.

HBM is a reliability bottleneck, requiring greater visibility into individual bonds and TSVs, and more sophisticated SI/PI ...

A smaller set of fiber connectors that meet manufacturing test high insertion count will ease the cost burden for all. Test specifications and associated standardized test formats will facilitate data ...

OpenAI is developing its own AI accelerator using Broadcom. Anthropic is also rumored to be exploring doing its own chip. As the developers of the most popular frontier models, one can expect they’ll ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, and National University of Singapore designed an analog content-addressable memory (CAM) utilizing 2D molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) flash ...

Chip security must be designed in from the start, with clear requirements that connect architecture, verification, software, manufacturing, and field deployment. AI is expanding both the scale and ...

An imec researcher published a technical paper titled “Bond Front Velocity in Lubrication-Mediated Bonding of Flexible ...

AI has pushed security to the forefront, helping attackers find vulnerabilities in chips and the chip industry to defend against them. Security needs to extend throughout a chip’s lifetime, but it’s ...