Hackaday

Unusual Circuits In The Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic

Intel’s 386 CPU is notable for being its first x86 CPU to use so-called standard cell logic, which swapped the taping out of individual transistors with wiring up standardized functional blocks. This ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Smaller Geometries, Bigger Demands: The Role Of OCD In GAA Logic And Vertical Gate DRAM Process Control

AI workloads are pushing the boundaries of compute, memory, and interconnect architectures, and to meet these goals, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Research Bits: Dec. 16

While previous p-bit proposals included an analog component and DAC, the new research offers an all-digital p-bit design. “The reliance on analog signals was holding back progress,” said Shunsuke ...