Hot Chips 2018: NEC Vector Processor Live Blog
We saw this at Supercomputing last year: NEC's new Vector PCIe co-processor. I've wanted to write about it for a while, so I'm glad it's being presented here at...
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Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
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Hot Chips 2018: IBM Power9 Scale Up CPU Live Blog
The biggest part of the show are the server talks in the last session of the last day. All four talks are worth covering, and the first talk is...
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Hot Chips 2018: Xilinx DNN Processors Live Blog
Xilinx has several talks this year at Hot Chips, and aside from the ACAP earlier in the day, the talk about their Deep Neural Network processor also looks interesting...
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Hot Chips 2018: Tachyum Prodigy CPU Live Blog
One of the more interesting talks is from Tachyum, who have a deep presentation about their new hyperscale Prodigy processors with up to 64 cores and eight channel memory...
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Hot Chips 2018: Arm's Machine Learning Core Live Blog
Arm officially announced Project Trillium earlier this year, as a way to bring machine learning to the Arm ecosystem. As part of the trade show today, we have a...
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Hot Chips 2018: Nanotubes as DRAM from Nantero, a Live Blog
Lots of different types of 'RAM' have been in the news, most noticably Intel's Optane memory and a couple of weeks ago at Flash Memory Summit we had the...
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Hot Chips 2018: Xilinx 7nm ACAP Live Blog
We've covered the initial announcement of Xilinx's Project Everest before, which will be coming to market as an 'ACAP' built on 7nm. Xilinx believes that the ACAP is the...
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Hot Chips 2018: Going Deep on NVSwitch Live Blog (8:45am PT, 3:45pm UTC)
The first talk on Day 2 of Hot Chips is from NVIDIA, going into more detail about how the NVSwitch works with a lot more detail than from previous...
3 by on 8/21/2018
AnandTech at Hot Chips 30: Our 2018 Show Coverage
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of coverage at two key events: Hot Chips, the semiconductor industry conference regarding new product designs, and some minor thing...
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Hot Chips 2018: Google Titan Live Blog (6pm PT, 1am UTC)
The second talk on security is on Google's Titan Root-of-Trust silicon that sits between the BIOS and the processor on its custom systems.
6 by on 8/20/2018
Hot Chips 2018: Microsoft Azure Sphere Live Blog (5:30pm PT, 12:30am UTC)
For the security section of Hot Chips, the first talk is from Microsoft on their Azure Sphere, which is an end-to-end solution for securing microcontroller powered devices with the cloud.
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Hot Chips 2018: NVIDIA Xavier SoC Live Blog (5pm PT, Midnight UTC)
NVIDIA has a couple of talks during Hot Chips, with this first one going into the Xavier SoC.
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Hot Chips 2018: SMIV DNN SoC for IoT Live Blog (4pm PT, 11pm UTC)
A slightly different talk from Hot Chips this time: here's a neural network processor aimed at IoT devices based in 16nm. The slides look interesting, so we're covering this...
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Hot Chips 2018: AMD APU Optimization Live Blog (Noon PT, 7pm UTC)
AMD is also at Hot Chips, speaking about Raven Ridge and its APUs. The key elements to this talk will be the optimizations made for Raven Ridge, specifically around...
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Hot Chips 2018: Intel on Graphics Live Blog (11:30am PT, 6:30pm UTC)
Intel is talking graphics! We're expecting a lot of discussion about Kaby Lake G, with Radeon graphics, however the slide deck is going to talk a lot about power...
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Hot Chips 2018: The Google Pixel Visual Core Live Blog (10am PT, 5pm UTC)
Hot Chips has started! One of the first talks today is from Google, detailing the Pixel Visual Core processor found in the latest Pixel smartphones. The talk is called...
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Intel at Hot Chips 2018: Showing the Ankle of Cascade Lake
The final presentation of the Hot Chips event this week is from Intel, with a talk on its next generation Xeon Scalable platform, Cascade Lake. We recently learned about...
31 by on 8/19/2018
BAPCo Publishes SYSmark 2018
One of the bigger consortiums for developing benchmarks is BAPCo. Over the years the company has released a variety of benchmarking tools, such as MobileMark, TabletMark, and SYSmark. This...
7 by on 8/17/2018
An Interview with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s DCG: Discussing Cooper Lake and Smeltdown
As part of Intel's Datacenter summit, we were given an opportunity to sit down with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Xeon Products...
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