Another good resource for moving to GAA FETs https://semiengineering.com/moving-to-gaa-fets/

The apparent driver here isn’t about AMD wanting to get into the FPGA business. The real motivation appears to be a combination of platforms and programmable chiplets. There are two problems that programmable chips address https://semiengineering.com/amd-wants-an-fpga-company-too/

Interesting to see where this is gaining traction and where the challenges are https://semiengineering.com/where-risc-v-is-gaining-traction...

According to this article https://semiengineering.com/china-speeds-up-advanced-chip-de... they are into advanced chip development:

-SMIC is shipping 14nm finFETs, with a 7nm-like process in R&D. -Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) recently entered the 3D NAND market with a 64-layer device. A 128-layer technology is in R&D. -ChangXin Memory Technology (CXMT) is shipping its first product, a 19nm DRAM line. -China is expanding into compound semis, including gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC). -China’s OSATs are developing more advanced packages.

People should look at cellular.

About 20 years ago China started developing its own 3G flavour as a way to develop its technology and to catch up. People were saying that they were quite far behind and that this might only sell in China (which it mostly did).

But today we see the result of this long term investment with Chinese companies front and centre in cellular an 5G.

I feel that chip manufacturing has shot up to an even higher priority for them now, so I'm thinking that the landscape may look very different from now in 20 years...

There are challenges but work is on the way, transitioning to gate-all around FETS (GAA Fets) https://semiengineering.com/making-chips-at-3nm-and-beyond/

An expanding attack surface in hardware, coupled with increasing complexity inside and outside of chips, is making it far more difficult to secure systems against a variety of new and existing types of attacks https://semiengineering.com/hardware-attack-surface-widening.... Per Paul Kocher “AI will help attackers in a number of ways, where behaviors that used to be unique to humans can now be automated in ways that are lot harder to distinguish from humans"

Hi there, I'm seeing more and more remote roles that our posted on our semiconductor publication site for engineers due to the talent shortage. If you dig into some of the roles, it indicates flexible locations. https://semiengineering.com/jobs/ . Best of luck

Thanks! This is a useful resource!

It's one of the biggest engineering problems in the last 10 years due to sensory input issues, dealing with the unexpected behavior of outside influences and you have to have the mechanical and software components that the first two components give the commands to, and can then faithfully execute them https://semiengineering.com/challenges-to-building-autonomou... and https://semiengineering.com/more-data-more-problems-in-autom...

Single-source ISAs of the past relied on general industry verification technologies and methodologies, but open-source ISA-based processor users and adopters will need to review the verification flows of the processor and SoC https://semiengineering.com/will-open-source-processors-caus...

another good Youtube playlist for Architectures from Semiconductor Engineering https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4RrBxLcT1nY9ugQ_V-1p...