Since it started in 1989, HOT CHIPS has been known as one of the semiconductor industry’s leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held once a year in August in the center of the world’s capital of electronics activity, Silicon Valley.

The conference emphasis this year, as in previous years, is on real products and realizable technology. Submissions are invited from a variety of “hot” topics, including embedded and reconfigurable processors, quantum computing, nanostructures, wireless chips, network/security processors, advanced packaging technology, etc.