Semiconductor Institute Develops Ultra-High Integration Optical Convolution Processor
2023-06-04
Recently, according to news from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Microwave Photonics Group of the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, researcher Li Ming's team and academician Zhu Ninghua's team developed an ultra-high integration optical convolution processor. Related research results were published in the journal Nature Communications with the title "Compact optical convolution processing unit based on multimode interference."
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are artificial neural networks inspired by the biological visual nervous system, consisting of multiple convolutional layers, pooling layers, and fully connected layers. As the core component of convolutional neural networks, convolutional layers extract features of different levels and abstraction degrees through local perception and weight sharing of input data. In a complete convolutional neural network, convolution operations usually account for over 80% of the entire network's computational load. Although convolutional neural networks have achieved great success in fields such as image recognition, they also face huge challenges. Traditional convolutional neural networks are mainly implemented based on von Neumann architecture electronic hardware, where storage units and processing units are separate, leading to inherent contradictions between data exchange speed and energy consumption. As data volume and network complexity increase, electronic computing solutions are increasingly unable to meet the demand for high-speed, low-energy computing hardware for real-time processing of massive data.
Optical computing is a technology that uses light waves as carriers for information processing. It has advantages such as large bandwidth, low latency, and low power consumption, providing a computing architecture of "transmission is computation, structure is function," which is expected to avoid data tidal transmission issues existing in the von Neumann computing paradigm. Optical computing has received widespread attention in recent years, but in most reported optical computing schemes, the number of optical components grows quadratically with the scale of the computing matrix, posing huge challenges to the scaling of optical computing chips.


Jiangxi Xinfeng County Mayor and other leaders visit Yinte Electronics
2023-04-27
Recently, Zhang Lin, the county mayor of Xinfeng County in Jiangxi Province, and her delegation visited Yinte Electronics for a visit. General Manager Xiao Nanhai, Deputy General Manager Xiong Dengfeng, and EMI Business Unit General Manager Deng Shaoneng received County Mayor Zhang and his delegation.
China invests over one trillion yuan to develop chip industry
2022-12-14
According to foreign media reports, under pressure from the United States, China will launch a large-scale plan to support its semiconductor industry in order to achieve self-sufficiency in chips. Sources have revealed in detail China's next steps.
According to foreign media reports on Tuesday (December 13th), three sources said that China is developing a support plan worth over 1 trillion yuan (143 billion US dollars) to support the development of the semiconductor industry.
According to sources, this is one of the largest fiscal incentive plans planned by the Chinese government within the next five years, mainly to support domestic semiconductor production and research and development through subsidies and tax credits.
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Daily: American semiconductor giant seeks business opportunities at CIIE
2022-11-09
According to the report of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on November 7, November 8 on the reference news website, the Expo being held in Shanghai, China has attracted large US semiconductor enterprises and manufacturing equipment giants to participate. The Biden administration's semiconductor restrictions on China are intensifying US China relations, but for businesses, China is an indispensable market for profit.
Outside of the semiconductor industry, major American companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Metaverse Platform have participated in the exhibition. While promoting their own metaverse technology, various companies are also committed to providing support for Chinese enterprises to expand into overseas markets.
According to reports, the Biden administration has also requested its allies to align with China's semiconductor restrictions, but like American companies, European and Japanese companies have also benefited greatly from China. In addition to ASML Holdings from the Netherlands participating in the exhibition, Canon and Nikon from Japan also brought their own semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
According to the report, the relevant person in charge of the American semiconductor manufacturing equipment giant Panlin Group, who participated in this year's CIIE, warmly introduced their company's achievements and product advantages in China to corporate clients who came to inquire at the booth on the 6th: "We have been committed to promoting breakthroughs in the new generation of semiconductor technology
Another industry giant, Koley Corporation of the United States, also participated in this year's exhibition. Previously, it was reported that due to the US government's increased export restrictions on China, these two American companies have suspended technical support for some Chinese companies. However, according to the staff at the booth, as long as it does not involve cutting-edge technology, they can still conduct business in China.
According to reports, the American semiconductor companies participating in this exhibition include AMD, Intel, Texas Instruments, etc. The main exhibits are automotive and network semiconductors, which have attracted the attention of many Chinese companies.


TSMC considers expanding its production capacity in Japan to produce advanced process semiconductors
2022-10-20
According to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, TSMC is considering expanding its production capacity in Japan. According to sources, the Japanese government hopes that TSMC will expand beyond its already operational factories. At present, TSMC is studying feasibility and has not yet made an initial decision. Another source familiar with the matter said that TSMC will consider producing more advanced chips in Kyushu, Japan. Currently, TSMC is building a chip manufacturing plant in Kyushu, Japan. This multi billion dollar factory has received subsidies from the Japanese government. This factory was originally planned to mainly produce chips for mature processes of automobiles and sensors, with plans to ship them by the end of 2024. TSMC considers expanding its production capacity in Japan to produce advanced process semiconductors