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Semiconductor Engineering reviewed several major developments in the chip industry, from artificial intelligence agents for chip design and Spectre-v2 threats to the expansion of advanced packaging and photonics and the shortage of engineers. The overall picture reveals that the growth of AI infrastructure is simultaneously placing pressure on memory, energy, networking, and manufacturing capacity.
Researchers from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have disclosed a Branch Target Reuse attack that exploits remnants of processor predictions after memory reuse in JIT engines, enabling them to extract the root password hash from Linux within 3 to 5 minutes in tests on Intel processors.