The 53rd 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.

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At a Glance

  • First author, and most authors, must be from industry
  • Not for student internship projects
  • Submissions must include all author names and affiliations for review (authors may remain blinded)
  • All ISCA formatting guidelines apply (11 pages without references)
  • Important Dates
    • Abstract Deadline: December 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM AoE
    • Full Paper Deadline: December 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM AoE
    • Reviews Due: February 6, 2026
    • Rebuttal Period: February 16 – 27, 2026
    • Decisions Released March 27, 2026

Additional Submission Guidelines for Industry Track

  • 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) students' short-term internship projects from industry, or (2) 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. 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 formatting guidelines for the general submission (including page limits) must also be followed by any paper submitted to the industry track. The accepted paper will be labelled as an "Industry Product" in the conference proceedings.
  • 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.

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

Submissions that fail to abide by the guidelines will be rejected without review.

Industry Track Program Committee Members

Industry Track Chair Affiliation
Brad Beckmann AMD
Industry Track Submission Chair Affiliation
William Won AMD
Industry Track Program Committee Members Affiliation
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