Intel Moving to Chiplets: ‘Client 2.0’ for 7nm
One of the more esoteric elements of Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 came very near the end, where Intel spent a few minutes discussing what it believes is the future...
67 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Intel’s New 224G PAM4 Transceivers
One battleground in the world of FPGAs is the transceiver – the ability to bring in (or push out) high speed signals onto an FPGA at low power. In...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Intel’s Future 7nm FPGAs To Use Foveros 3D Stacking
One of the main battlegrounds of future leading-edge semiconductor products will be in the packaging technology: being able to integrate multiple elements of silicon onto the same package with...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine News: DoE Supercomputer Gets 400,000 AI Cores
One of the more interesting AI silicon projects over the last couple of years has been the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine, most notably for the fact that a single...
8 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42+ TFLOPs of FP32 Performance
One of the promises that Intel has made with its new Xe GPU family is that in its various forms it will cater to uses ranging from integrated graphics...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Intel’s SG1 is 4x DG1: Xe-LP Graphics for Server Video Acceleration and Streaming
For the last few years, Intel has had a product line known as the Visual Computing Accelerator (VCA). With the VCA2 product being put on EOL earlier this year...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Western Digital's USB 3.1 Gen 2 WD My Passport SSD Gets an NVMe Refresh
Western Digital's lineup of direct-attached storage (DAS) products targets a range of markets and form-factors. After the acquisition of HGST / G-Technology and SanDisk, the company now offers similar...
20 by Ganesh T S on 8/20/2020NVIDIA Reports Q2 FY2021 Earnings: Datacenter Revenue Surpasses Gaming for the First Time
This afternoon NVIDIA announced their results for the second quarter of their 2021 fiscal year, closing out on an exceptional quarter for the company that set numerous revenue records...
35 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2020Mandatory Socialization: Facebook Accounts To be Required for Oculus Headsets
Signaling the end to any remaining degrees of separation between Facebook and its VR headset division, Oculus, today the social media company announced that it will be further integrating...
73 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Silicon Photonics for AI (6:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
6 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Alibaba's Hanguang 800 NPU (5:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Baidu Kunlun AI Processor (4:30pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Manticore 4096-core RISC-V (3:30pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
7 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Cerebras WSE Programming (3:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020AMD Releases the A520 Chipset: For Ryzen on a Budget
AMD has officially lifted the lid on its latest entry-level chipset designed for its Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 and 4000 processors, the A520 chipset. Following AMD's mid-tier B550 chipset...
41 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Google TPUv2 and TPUv3 (2:30pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Keynote Day 2, Dan Belov of Deepmind (1:30pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Intel/Barefoot Tofino2 12.9 Tbps Switch (10:30am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Xilinx Versal ACAPs (9:00am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Intel 10nm Agilex FPGAs (8:30am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020