The Synsopsys 40G UCIe IP affords up to 12.9Tbps per mm of data to efficiently travel between heterogeneous and/or homogeneous chiplet dies, with minimal silicon footprint. Higher bandwidth between chiplets is critical for enabling next-generation processor designs, and advanced AI and automotive ADAS systems, which must move massive amounts of data. Of note is that, despite its higher performance, Synopsys’ IP remains compliant with the UCIe 2.0 specification.
Read MoreIn a conversation with AMD’s Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer and executive vice president for technology and engineering, I got a bird’s eye view regarding AMD’s philosophy and long-term sustainability and efficiency efforts. I also had a chance to connect with AMD’s Sam Naffziger, senior vice president, corporate fellow, for a deep-dive technical discussion detailing AMD’s past achievements and what it’s actively doing to maximize AI and HPC compute capabilities, though silicon and system-level optimizations and software co-optimization up and down the stack. Our discussions were eye opening.
Read MoreLast week, at one of the oldest consumer electronics industry shows, analysts and press were given hands-on access to Lunar Lake Core Ultra laptops from various OEM partners, along with a deep-dive view of Core Ultra 200V Series processor performance, delivered in a series of presentations and Q&A sessions. The promise of what Lunar Lake will deliver was very strong, so much so that competitors like Qualcomm immediately began picking apart some of the compares. This was to be expected of course, but let’s break down what you can expect from Lunar Lake and read between the lines a bit along the way as well.
Read MoreDave Altavilla calls Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings beat great for the company, and believes its Blackwell chips will deliver despite a "speedbump" of a delay. He and Oliver Renick discuss Nvidia's outlook.
Read MoreAI chip firm Tenstorrent, led by renowned microprocessor engineer Jim Keller, just announced new devkits and AI workstations powered by the company’s leading-edge Wormhole accelerators. Tenstorrent has previously offered devkits (development kits) based on its Grayskull AI processor (and will continue doing so while inventory is available), but Wormhole features a newer, more-powerful architecture, and this marks the first time the company has offered complete workstations built around its chips.
Read MoreDigital twins are fundamental in many industries for delivering products, in the most efficient and timely manner. Of course, designing and building aerospace and defense systems will have requirements that don’t directly align to some other industries, but the benefits of physically accurate simulation and digital twin technologies still apply.
Read MoreDell has never strayed from Intel Core processors to power its XPS 13 models, so this is a first to be sure, and a bold bet for the Round Rock, Texas company. I’d offer that bet was sound, from what I’ve seen thus far, and I’m impressed with this laptop as a potential daily driver.
Read MoreAMD just announced the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI lab in Europe. The companies have signed a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Silo AI in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million.
Read MoreIn the resounding buzz that AI stirred at Computex 2024 in Taiwan, literally all of the major semiconductor players had something to say, though not all had new technologies that will shape this burgeoning new landscape. AMD, on the other hand, stepped out with a full arsenal of new chip technologies targeted at AI-fueled computing from the client edge to gaming desktops and workstation, and the AI-infused data center.
Read MoreLunar Lake represents a major architectural shift for Intel, manufactured on TSMC’s N3 and N6 chip fab process nodes, in an effort to leap ahead of new entrant competition from both Qualcomm and AMD. And to say both members of the media and analyst communities were waiting with baited breath for this level of detail on Intel’s new ultra-efficient processor architecture, for the age of the AI PC, would be a major understatement.
Read MoreMicrosoft better defined the hardware requirements and expected experiences from the modern AI-powered PC, and it goes far beyond just a Neural Processing Unit-equipped machine capable of at least 40 TOPS.
Read MoreSnapdragon X Plus is based on the same Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU architectures as the company’s Snapdragon X Elite platform, though this chip sports a 10-core CPU complex versus 12 cores in the higher-end product, and a max multi-core frequency of 3.4GHz with no dual-core boost speeds like some of the X Elite products.
Read MoreAn area of circuit design that perhaps hasn’t seen enough integration over the years, are clock timing solutions. However, that is going to change with the introduction of SiTime’s Chorus family of clock generators that are targeted at the quickly evolving AI data center and data center networking.
Read MoreCadence Design Systems, launched its latest systems for chip designers for hardware debugging and advanced prototyping, the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3. Though the systems are fundamentally different, each offers significantly increased capacity and higher performance versus its predecessors, to accelerate the development of today’s larger and more complex chips.
Read MoreRapidus Corporation has been making a lot of news as of late. For those unfamiliar with Rapidus, it is a fledgling Japanese semiconductor company developing bleeding-edge semiconductor manufacturing and adjacent technologies.
Read MoreAll told, Intel is claiming that its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator can deliver an average 50% improvement in inferencing performance with an approximate 40% improvement in power efficiency versus Nvidia’s H100. Intel is also claiming that it does so at a fraction of the cost.
Read MoreLast week, out in Silicon Valley, there was a meeting of the minds in artificial intelligence and AI-driven chip design.
Read MoreNVIDIA’s GTC AI conference is currently underway in San Jose, California, and true to form, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a diverse array of new technologies during his keynote address, targeting numerous industries, from health care, to robotics, the automotive sector, future 6G networks, and virtually everything in between.
Read MoreIn an announcement made yesterday, the LSTC, in conjunction with Tenstorrent and Rapidus Corporation, revealed a multi-tiered partnership to license and leverage Tenstorrent’s leading RISC-V technologies and chiplet IP for LTSC’s planned 2nm AI Accelerator for the edge. In addition to the IP licensing part of the agreement, Tenstorrent will also collaborate with LSTC to help co-design the chip…
Read MoreQualcomm took the wraps off its FastConnect 7900 integrated WiFi solution, and it's not just AI-enhanced but also highly integrated with a number of industry firsts.
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