Deal brings fab tool vendor new capabilities to expand on its vision of virtual fabrication.

Facebook demoed neural network inference in smartphones at its @Scale event, where a researcher described work on DNA storage.

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Facebook demoed neural network inference in smartphones at its @Scale event, where a researcher described work on DNA storage.

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.

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

Take a private tour in pictures of where technology giant began, in a tiny garage in Palo Alto, CA.

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

The technical professional organization's project will establish a general nomenclature for quantum computing to standardize communication with related hardware and software projects

Drive vendor says deal for provider of IntelliFlash products will give it access to more than 1,700 new customers.

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.

A Google engineer described new techniques for managing network traffic in data centers, and Mellanox claims it ships it in one Ethernet adapter.

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.

Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm, will resign at the end of 2017 after 17 years with the fabless chip firm.

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.

Work on interfaces linking neurons and electronics may create breakthroughs in both health care and machine learning.

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 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, 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

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.

Litho vendor claims elusive source power target as dawn of EUV era inches closer.

A five-year sentence for Samsung Group's boss will shake up Korea's conglomerates but is not expected to impact surging electronics businesses.

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

SAN FRANCISCO — Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) supplier Everspin Technologies Inc. announced it is replacing its CEO ...

Machine learning was the dominant theme of Hot Chips 2017 with talks by data center giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Baidu.

New consortium reportedly has inside track with $17.3 billion bid.

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.

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

French and Russian researchers built and demonstrated a magnetoelectric RAM (MELRAM) cell that requires 10,000x less current to read/write than traditional DRAM.

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

Intel and Xilinx presented dueling chip stacking techniques at Hot Chips as a U.S. research effort gears up to create standards for chiplets.

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

Market watcher says supply will remain tight until later in 2018, when 3D NAND production reaches maturity.

Microsoft described at Hot Chips its Scorpio SoC in the upcoming Xbox One X and it decision not to use high-bandwidth memory.

ThinCI, a five-year-old startup in California, presented Monday at the Hot Chips symposium the company’s “Graph Streamin ...

Data from more than 50 member companies points to strongest industry growth since 2010.

With a minimal premium on NVMe SSDs, the interface is expected to quickly become the defacto standard in storage arrays.

Startup SiFive partnered with Rambus for a crypto core that becomes the first member of its DesignShare third-party IP program for RISC-V.

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.

Qualcomm will describe at Hot Chips the Falkor dual-CPU custom ARM core in its Centriq server processor slated to ship later this year.

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 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.

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

Neural networks for machine learning will be applied to new applications and create new hardware designs, said a Qualcomm researcher.

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

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 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

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 Association applauds President's investigation into China's policies and practices around intellectual property.

Hype for the Internet of Things is over and the hard work designing products, deployments and tacking issues like security has just begun.