ICs & Semiconductors

Computing-in-memory technology is poised to eliminate the massive data communications bottlenecks associated with AI speech processing at the network’s edge, said Witinmen. The company has worked with Microchip Technology’s subsidiary Silicon Storage Technology (SST) to develop an embedded memory that simultaneously performs neural network computation and stores weights. Microchip Technology announced that its SuperFlash memBrain neuromorphic memory has been combined with the Witinmem neural processing SoC. The SoC is claimed to be the first in volume production that enables sub-mA systems to reduce speech noise and recognise hundreds of command words, in real time and immediately after power-up.

At the 2022 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (2022 ISSCC), imec, KU Leuven, and PragmatIC Semiconductor unveiled an 0.8 micron metal oxide flexible technology, claiming it is the fastest 8-bit microprocessor capable of running real-time complex assembly code. The microprocessor was implemented with a digital design flow that allowed the creation of a new standard cell library for metal-oxide thin film technologies for designing a range of loT applications. PragmatIC Semiconductor is imec’s foundry partner and its thin-film technology was used to integrate the approximately 16,000 metal-oxide thin film transistors on a 24.9mm² flexible chip.