Call for Submissions: IEEE Hot Chips 2026

Conference dates: 23-25 August 2026 | Palo Alto, CA, USA

The submission site for Hot Chips 2026 is now open. We are seeking technical presentations on important, real-world processors and systems-on-chip. If you are an engineer working on significant new silicon, we invite you to submit your work for this year's program.

In addition to technical presentations, we are also seeking posters, particularly from students. We will present a Hot Chips 2026 Best Student Poster award selected from accepted posters at the conference.

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Why Participate?

Share your work with international experts and peers, and gain valuable feedback

Opportunities

Present your emerging ideas and applications
Showcase your demos of innovative systems, tools, prototypes, and interactive experiences
Utilize your platform to share new advances, ideas, and solutions
Highlight your contributions
Contribute to event programming and technical content
Experience groundbreaking workshops, special sessions, and panels

Topics

General-Purpose Processor Chips
- High-Performance, Low-Power
- Multi-Core and Highly-Reliable Systems
Domain-Specific Chips
- AI Accelerators
- Graphics Chips
- Machine Learning Chips
- Data Analytics and Big Data Processing
- IoT and Always-On Functions
- Custom Chips for Emerging Applications
Reconfigurable Chips
- FPGAs and FPGA-Based Systems
- Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays
Security
- Secure Hardware
- Hardware Support for Software Security
Mobile and Embedded Devices
- Graphics/Multimedia/Gaming
- SoC, Security, and DSP Chips
Communications and Networking
- Wireless LAN/WAN/PAN
- Network and I/O Processors
Emerging Computing Architectures
- Neuromorphic
- Quantum Computing
- Analog Computing, Photonic Chips
Memory Technologies
- Emerging Memory
- Packaging, 3D, Stacked
Other Enabling Technologies
- Power and Thermal Management
- Sustainable Computing
- Generative Tools
- Packaging and Testing
- Display Technologies
- On-Chip Optics & Sensors
- Novel Computing Technologies
Software and Systems for Emerging Hardware
- Programming Models, Runtime Systems
- Performance, Power, Debug, and Evaluation

Submit Your Content

In addition to submitting your paper to IEEE Hot Chips 2026, you are also encouraged to upload the data related to your paper to IEEE DataPort. IEEE DataPort is IEEE’s data platform that supports the storage and publishing of datasets while also providing access to thousands of research datasets. Uploading your dataset to IEEE DataPort will strengthen your paper and will support research reproducibility. Your paper and the dataset can be linked, providing a good opportunity for you to increase the number of citations you receive. Data can be uploaded to IEEE DataPort prior to submitting your paper or concurrent with the paper submission. Thank you!