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Balancing Training, Quantization, And Hardware Integration In NPUs

Evolving challenges and strategies in AI/ML model deployment and hardware optimization have a big impact on NPU architectures ...
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MFMIS FeTFETs For Energy-Efficient, Scalable CIM Hardware Accelerators (Seoul National University)

A new technical titled “Impact of Random Phase Distribution on Ferroelectric Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors With Mitigation Strategies for Compute-in-Memory Applications” was published by researchers ...
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Hypergraph-based Techniques To Map Spiking Neural Networks on Neuromorphic HW (Politecnico di Milano)

A new technical paper titled “A Case for Hypergraphs to Model and Map SNNs on Neuromorphic Hardware” was published by ...
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Overview of ALD-Driven Oxide Semiconductors for High Density, Low Power Memory Architectures (imec, Hanyang Univ.)

A new technical paper titled “Oxide Semiconductor for Advanced Memory Architectures: Atomic Layer Deposition, Key Requirement ...
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Outlier-aware Quantization Framework Co-designed With Heterogeneous NVM For SLM Deployment on Edge Platforms (UCSD et al.)

Efficient SLM Edge Inference via Outlier-Aware Quantization and Emergent Memories Co-Design” was published by researchers at ...
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Better Contact Resistance in Top-Gate CNFETs through Self-Aligned MoOx Nanoparticle Contact Doping (NYCU et al.)

A new technical paper titled “Improving Contact Resistance in Top-Gate Carbon Nanotube Transistor through Self-Aligned MoOx ...
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Confidentiality-preserving Framework For Secure On-Chip Communication in NoC Architectures

A new technical paper, “Secure Multi-Path Routing with All-or-Nothing Transform for Network-on-Chip Architectures,” was ...
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Overview and Comparison of Devices Used For Optical Waveguide-to-Waveguide Coupling (MIT et al.)

A new technical paper titled “Advances in waveguide to waveguide couplers for 3D integrated photonic packaging” was published ...
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Addressing Critical Tradeoffs In NPU Design

AI/ML are driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge ...
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A Verification Framework For Trojan Detection (U. of Kansas, U. of Florida)

Trojan Detection in COTS Hardware via Statistical Activation of Microarchitectural Events” was published by researchers at ...
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An Explosion In Interconnect Complexity

Recently, that number has risen to five, and while it adds far more flexibility for structuring electronic equipment, it also ...
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Startup Funding: Q4 2025

Semiconductor Engineering tracked 12 rounds of $100 million or more in Q4 and 11 in Q3, a significant increase from earlier ...