Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Tesla Solution for Full Self Driving
The first talk being live blogged at Hot Chips today is from Tesla, who are showing off their compute and redundancy solution for a fully-self driving car. We assume...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Dell Reveals Alienware 34 Curved Monitor: WQHD IPS with 120Hz G-Sync
Dell this week has introduced its new top-of-the-line curved gaming display, the Alienware 34. The new AW3420DW monitor resembles its predecessor from 2017, with the same resolution and G-Sync...
24 by Anton Shilov on 8/20/2019NVIDIA Releases GeForce 436.02 Driver: Integer Scaling Support for Turing, Freestyle Sharpening, & More
With this year’s Gamescom event now in full swing, the German games show seems to be taking on an ever-larger presence in the worlds of gaming and hardware. Along...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2019Dell’s Reveals OptiPlex 7070 Ultra: Putting a Modular PC In A Monitor Stand
All-in-one desktop PCs have a number of advantages compared to regular desktop machines when it comes to dimensions, style, lack of cable clutter, and other. Their main drawbacks are...
13 by Anton Shilov on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Habana's Approach to AI Scaling
The final talk today at Hot Chips is from Habana, who is discussing its approach to how to scale AI compute.
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Spring Crest NNP-T on 16nm TSMC
Intel is showing us some of the design features of its new ML training product, Spring Crest.
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Huawei Da Vinci Architecture
Huawei has already announced a range of Ascend products based on its in-house machine learning architecture, Da Vinci. Today we get a look inside the architecture.
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Facebook Zion Unified Training Platform
Facebook is presenting details on Zion, its next generation in-memory unified training platform.
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: MLperf Benchmark
MLperf is an up-and-coming benchmark aimed at machine learning, backed by a number of industry leaders in this area.
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Dell Unveils G5 Gaming Desktop: Starting at $629
Historically, Dell has addressed the market for higher-end gaming desktops with their Alienware-branded machines, which are frequently built around unlocked CPUs as well as advanced graphics cards. Meanwhile, for...
68 by Anton Shilov on 8/19/2019Dell Launches 55-Inch Alienware OLED Display: 4K at 120 Hz with Deep Blacks
Today at Gamescom, Dell has officially launched its new flagship OLED gaming monitor, the Alienware 55. First demonstrated back at Computex, the display uses a 4K OLED panel featuring...
48 by Anton Shilov on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Optane
This year at Hot Chips, Intel is presenting the latest updates to its Optane PCDMM strategy.
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Princeton In-Memory Compute Embedded CPU
Princeton is presenting it's own solution for in-memory compute this year at Hot Chips.
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: IBM's Next Generation POWER
We're here at Hot Chips 31 / 2019, and the first talk to be live blogged is IBM's newest variant of its POWER CPUs. This talk starts at 10am...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Micron’s Fab 10 Expansion Completed: 96-Layer 3D NAND Production Starts in 2019
Micron this week hosted a grand opening ceremony of its Fab 10 Expansion in Singapore. The new cleanroom is not expected to increase the company’s production capacity in terms...
21 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019SMIC: 14nm FinFET in Risk Production; China's First FinFET Line To Contribute Revenue by Late 2019
SMIC, the largest contract maker of semiconductors in China, announced this month that it would start commercial production of chips using its 14 nm FinFET manufacturing technology by the...
53 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019Micron: Mass Production of 16 Gb DDR4 & LPDDR4X Chips Using 1z nm Technology
Micron announced on Thursday that it had started volume production of memory chips using its 3rd Generation 10 nm-class fabrication technology (also known as 1Z nm). The first DRAMs...
25 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019Marvell at FMS 2019: NVMe Over Fabrics Controllers, AI On SSD
Prior to Flash Memory Summit, Marvell unveiled their first generation of client SSD controllers supporting PCI Express 4.0. During the show itself, their focus was much more on the...
5 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2019Samsung Mulls Suspending South Korea LCD Plant Due to Oversupply
Samsung Display is considering to suspend one of its LCD panel production facilities in South Korea because of oversupply, the company said this week. There is no final decision...
32 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019FMS 2019: EDSFF Form Factors Update - Long, Short, & Everything In-Between
What began as Intel's Ruler concept for a new SSD form factor blossomed into the Enterprise and Datacenter Small Form Factor family of standards, with the version 1.0 specs...
1 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2019