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VLSI Chip Design and Tape-out: IHP Advances Open-Source Chip Fabrication with 2026 MPW Runs and Upcoming PDK Release
Germany based Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) continues to democratize access to cutting-edge silicon fabrication through its open-silicon Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) program, with several affordable runs scheduled for 2026. This program targets academics, start
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Semiconductor IP for Advanced 2nm SoCs in the Silicon AI Era: Winners, Money-Spinning IPs, and Rising Trends
As we enter late 2025, the semiconductor industry is entering 2nm era enabling further growth of chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) systems and also for various other applications such as smart phone SoC and personal computer
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IISc ESE Invites Applications for Final Sem Project Internship in Quantum Tech and Electronics for B.Tech, M.Tech Students-Last Date to Apply 2nd Jan 2026
The Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (ESE) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a Final Semester Project Internship Programme for final-year B.Tech and M.Tech students, scheduled from January 15 to May 15, 2026. The programme involves full-time placemen
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IEEE ECTC 2026 Launches Student Innovation Challenge Focused on AI Datacenter Thermal Solutions and Electromigration in Semiconductor Packaging
The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), the technical conference and product exhibition for the semiconductor packaging industry, has announced a Student Innovation Challenge for its 76th edition in 2026. Six winning student teams will attend ECTC 2026 with financial assi
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Exascale Microelectronics Simulation Suite MicroEleX Offers Four GPU-Accelerated Codes for Ferroelectrics, Quantum Transport, Electrodynamics and Micromagnetics
The MicroEleX software package, developed under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, offers a collection of open-source, GPU-scalable simulation tools built on the AMReX adaptive mesh refinement framework for semiconductor and microelectronics applications. The
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India Semiconductor Push 2025: 122 Chip Designs Taped Out, 28 Student Chips Handed Over Under C2S Programme at SCL Mohali
Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on 28 November 2025 visited Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali, and handed over 28 chips fabricated at SCL (including 600 bare dies and 600 packaged chips) to representatives of 17 academic institutions under the C
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Cornell and Michigan Professors Awarded 2025 Semiconductor Research Honors for AI Chip Innovation and US Tech Leadership
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced the recipients of the 2025 University Research Awards on Thursday. Huili Grace Xing, the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University with a
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U.S. Electronics Manufacturing 2025 Report: 5.2 Million Jobs, $1.8 Trillion Output, Supply Chain Resilience
The Global Electronics Association released a report titled “Powering the U.S. Economy: The Economic Reach of Electronics Manufacturing” that details U.S. electronics manufacturing supports 5.2 million American jobs, contributes $853 billion to U.S. gross domestic product, and generat
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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino to Democratize AI Edge Development with UNO Q Dual-Brain Board
Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire Arduino, a company focused on open-source hardware and software. The transaction aims to combine Qualcomm's processing, graphics, computer vision, and AI technologies with Arduino's e
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IIIT Kottayam Team Shines at DVCON India 2025 with Transformer-Based Intrusion Detection System on CDAC AT1051
At DVCON India 2025, Students and academics were given a good amount of space to display their talent and abilities in the semiconductor chip design space. Along with significant presence of this community, they were also given an opportunity to contest in a design challenge. In interaction with
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Semiconductor Design Expert Satya Gupta Explains the Catalysts Driving the Indian Chip Design
Short Video Interview with Satya Gupta, President of VLSI Society of India, by Srinivasa Reddy N, Editor of EEHerald in the backdrop of the recently concluded event DVCON India 2025. Question: What progress do you see in the growth of Indian semiconductor design talent and the rise
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Photonic Chip Breakthrough Enhances AI Convolution Efficiency with Light-Based Processing
A team of engineers has developed a photonic joint transform correlator (pJTC), a light-based computer chip designed to accelerate convolution operations critical to artificial intelligence (AI) tasks like image recognition and pattern-finding. The chip leverages near-energy-free on-chip Fourier
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