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Work by the University of Toronto and Arm presented at IEDM indicates plasmonics could be a viable contender for high-speed chip-chip communications.

Work presented at IEDM 2020 shows taking advantage of the IC backside for power and ground for the additional area can deliver further benefits for IR drop and security.

Arm is pushing more work onto Arm servers in the AWS cloud as it encourages EDA vendors to port their tools to the architecture.

At IEDM this year, Macronix showed how a 3D architecture may bring back NOR flash, which stopped scaling a decade ago.

Use of the open-source RISC-V processor was tracked for the first time by the biennial study, finding notably high take-up.

This year's IEDM will feature papers that exploit stacked nanoribbons to reduce CMOS footprint, graphene interconnects that support easier integration, and the variability prospects of 2D semiconductors.

Mentor's latest additions to Tessent aim to cut test time by a factor of four but remains tailored for increasing design complexity.

The Arm Cortex-A78C extends the reach of the core into larger tablets and brings in one of a series of memory-protections extensions that will be used in the company's standard cores.

Speakers at this year's DVCon Europe called on the hardware community to find inspiration in software-development trends.

Functional verification for increasingly complex ARM-based designs is at the heart of the new consultancy partnership.