To many design and development engineers a beautifully laid out chip is a work of art in and of itself. But to others it is also a canvas. I have to confess, after more than a decade in and around the ...

Carbon's unique chemical properties allow it to be an essential building block for life on Earth and many other molecules we rely on for day-to-day life—but what about carbon's neighbor? Silicon is ...

Data center AI is driving a dramatic ramp in the growth of silicon photonics foundries: 8X growth in just 6 years, from 2026 to 2032. Scale-out is the major driver now. Scale-up will become the ...

Many of today’s computing and communications applications demand almost unimaginable processing capability and high-bandwidth access to memory. For example, many data center systems using high-end ...

Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of ...

To receive tech updates in your inbox, sign up to the newsletter ARPU. Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone giant, recently announced its self-developed mobile chipset, XRING 01, reportedly built on TSMC’s ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance.