ISCA 2026

The 53^rd International Symposium of Computer Architecture includes a separate industry session in the main program following the success of the industry track inaugurated in ISCA 2020. The ISCA Industry Track was established under a different vision and motive to bringing the values, trends, and perspectives of real hardware product and system design from the industries. It also serves as a venue to encourage more participation from industries to interact with academia for forward-looking research challenges and solutions. In light of the very specific purpose of the industry track, the submission guidelines are also very specific.

This page presents guidelines and examples specific to the industry track. However, papers in this track remain subject to all general submission guidelines. For more general information on deadlines, topics, and review policies, please see the call for papers and general submission guidelines.

Additional Submission Guidelines for Industry Track

• The papers ideally include:
  • Retrospective evaluations of real working products,
  • Upcoming industry products on their roadmaps, and/or
  • Planned products that were canceled but present interesting insights or lessons learned.
• The following submissions will not be considered:
  • Students' short-term internship projects from industry, or
  • Speculation about hardware that might be built.
  Those submissions are appropriate for the main track.
• 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 in the HotCRP submission form (do not include the author names on the submitted PDF). Reviewers want to know which product is being evaluated and which company is writing the paper. Review assignments will still follow common practice to avoid conflicts of interest.
• All submissions to the industry track must follow general submission guidelines, including formatting, font, and page limits.

The accepted paper will be labelled as an "Industry Product" in the conference proceedings. Submissions that fail to abide by the guidelines will be rejected without review.

Examples of High-Quality Industry Track Submissions

Industry track submissions are not limited to hardware tapeouts. In particular, papers that are software-centric papers relevant to the ISCA audience are welcome in this track (e.g. datacenter software 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, and domain-specific accelerators
• Systems and interconnect technologies for HPC, cloud, or data centers
• 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

Industry Track Organizers

Industry Track Chair	Brad Beckmann AMD
Industry Track Submission Chair	William Won AMD