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2026-06-27
news.vt.edu 2026-06-27 Virginia Tech News
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2026-06-27
www.design-engineering.com 2026-06-27 Design Engineering Magazine
onsemi has announced its acquisition of Synaptics Incorporated in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $7 billion. The agreement features a fixed exchange ratio of 1.350 shares of onsemi stock for each Synaptics share, reflecting a 19% premium based on recent trading prices. This acquisition positions onsemi to better meet the growing demand for intelligent systems across various sectors, in
2026-06-26
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2026-06-26
digitimes.com 2026-06-26
Academia Sinica has built a 20-qubit quantum chip from scratch, and the team now says the next phase is less about lab breakthroughs and more about engineering a scalable, reproducible manufacturing system. Chii-Dong Chen, executive director of Academia Sinica's Center for Quantum Computer, says Taiwan's quantum chip effort is moving into that engineering battleground.
2026-06-25
semiengineering.com 2026-06-25 Semiconductor Engineering
In Part 1, we looked at the innovations underpinning the Cerebras WSE-3 and why its most significant breakthrough is the elimination of data movement overhead at the architectural level, not better yield management or thermal engineering. Cerebras’ on-wafer fabric is a viable answer to the question being asked by the entire industry: how do you move data fast enough that compute stops waiting? Th
2026-06-25
semiengineering.com 2026-06-25 Semiconductor Engineering
Can engineers trust AI to get everything right in semiconductor design and verification? Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the pros and cons of using agentic AI in chip design and verification, with Cindy Cui, vice president of global customer success at ChipAgents; Wally Rhines, CEO of Silvaco; Shelly Henry, CEO of Moores Lab AI; Dave Kelf, CEO of Breker Verification Systems; Vince W
2026-06-25
semiengineering.com 2026-06-25 Semiconductor Engineering
A fine-tuned model brings frontier-level AI performance to chip design. By Tanay Biradar, Surya Gunukula, Tengxiao Liu, and Kexun Zhang ChipAgents has introduced Renoir, an agentic large language model (LLM) whose name means “renew.” In early chip design benchmarks, Renoir outperforms the base model it was trained on and cuts costs by more than half. Furthermore, it can run entirely on-premises,
2026-06-24
news.google.com 2026-06-24 Princeton Engineering
2026-06-23
www.genengnews.com 2026-06-23 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
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2026-06-23
www.genengnews.com 2026-06-23 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
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2026-06-23
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2026-06-23
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2026-06-23
semiengineering.com 2026-06-23 Semiconductor Engineering
Redesigning high-NA EUV; embedded liquid cooling; light wavelength analysis. A researcher from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) proposes redesigning the illumination systems and projectors used in high-NA EUV lithography to reduce optical effects and enhance resolution. In the proposed projector design, the collector mirrors in the illumination system have a simpler design
2026-06-23
tomshardware.com 2026-06-23 Andrew E. Freedman
We talked to Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat ahead of the Steam Machine's launch to learn more about its pricing, engineering, and how the company is handling availability.
2026-06-23
www.engineering.com 2026-06-23 Engineering.com
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2026-06-22
semiengineering.com 2026-06-22 Semiconductor Engineering
Rising mask costs, tighter high-NA requirements, and new materials challenges are forcing chipmakers to weigh litho choices against volume, design strategy, and total process cost. Experts at the table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss new mask technology challenges with Aki Fujimura, CEO at D2S; Glen Scheid, operations manager at Micron; Harry Levinson, principal lithographer at HJL
2026-06-19
news.google.com 2026-06-19 Semiconductor Engineering
2026-06-18
semiengineering.com 2026-06-18 Semiconductor Engineering
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2026-06-18
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2026-06-18
semiengineering.com 2026-06-18 Semiconductor Engineering
As logic devices transition from FinFETs to more complex gate-all-around (GAA) architectures, manufacturing variability has become a major barrier to achieving high yield.1,2 Hundreds of tightly coupled process steps now contribute to yield loss, making traditional wafer-based optimization slow, expensive, and often limited to addressing one failure mode at a time.3,4,5 To overcome these challeng