Call For Papers: Special Issue on Contemporary Industry Products

Submissions Due: 9 August 2026 at 11:59 PM EST

Publication: Nov/Dec 2026

Topics of Interest

Paper topics are not limited to hardware tapeouts. Papers that are software-centric papers relevant to the computer architecture audience are welcome in this track (e.g., datacenter software infrastructure work, compiler work, accelerator software stack work), but they should adhere to the tenet that they must be industry papers about production-level work - whether retrospective, planned and on the roadmap, or planned but canceled.

• Processors, SoCs, GPUs, ASICs, and domain-specific accelerators (e.g., AI).
• Systems and interconnect technologies for HPC, (neo)cloud, or datacenters.
• Embedded, mobile, and IoT processors.
• FPGA or reconfigurable architectures.
• Storage and emerging memory systems.
• Architectures using emerging technology.
• Architectures for emerging applications including generative AI and bioinformatics.
• Architectures for commercialization of quantum computing.

Submission Guidelines

• The papers ideally include (1) retrospective evaluations of real working products, (2) upcoming industry products on their roadmaps, and/or (3) planned products that were canceled but present interesting insights or lessons learned.
• The following submissions will not be considered: (1) short-term internship projects in industries, or (2) speculation about hardware that might be built.
• The first and most of the authors of such papers must work in industry.
• The submissions are required to disclose the affiliations of all authors. Reviewers want to know which product is being evaluated and which company is writing the paper. The review process will follow common practice to avoid conflicts of interest.
• All submissions to the industry track must follow general submission guidelines (including font and page limits). Submissions that fail to abide by the guidelines will be rejected without review.

Note: 1) The program committee recognizes that industry papers need to be approved by management (often involving multiple rounds of redaction) before they can be submitted, and there can be restrictions about filing patents before submitting a paper. Therefore, a later deadline is adopted to increase the chances of receiving such papers. 2) The 2026 ISCA industrial session where paper candidates are considered for this special issue will include a lighter weight rebuttal process to maximize industry submissions as well industry involvement in the review process.

Guest Editors 

Contact Guest Editor Brad Beckmann, AMD, USA or the Editor-in-Chief Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee.