Industry Expert Q&A –The Key to Chip Security: Trust and Verify! But How?
September 17, 2020
Even though microchips continue to get smarter, vital security gaps continue to be exposed through such hack attacks as Meltdown, Spectre, and in recent weeks, Plundervolt. Researchers continue to discover open doors in chip architectures for...
Taiwan Helps Cut Chip Manufacturing Costs with SEMI Standards
September 19, 2019
For many technologies, standards unshackle them from patents and enable their mass production – an idea close to the heart of Wendy Chen, associate vice president of the R&D Center at King Yuan Electronics Corp. and vice chair of the SEMI Taiwan...
Being "Idle" to Make Money - How Powering Down Pays Off
March 27, 2018
Large semiconductor fabs can devour electricity at clip of 100 megawatts per hour -- enough to power 50,000 homes1 and, according to a McKinsey study, more than automobile plants and oil refineries consume. So ravenous is their electricity...