Month: February 2024
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4Q23 Processor Market: Embedded Segment Turns Cold as Data Center Stays Hot
Four key players confirm that the data-center segment—especially AI processing—is hot, while the PC segment lacks luster and embedded sales falter.
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Arm Neoverse V3 and N3 Turn Up the Heat on X86
Arm has refreshed its entire infrastructure-CPU line, delivering new Neoverse V3, N3, and E3 cores. A rung up the integration ladder, the company also offers compute subsystems (CSS) that combine these CPUs, a mesh network, cache, and interfaces to facilitate customers’ SoC and chiplet designs. Arm reports V3 and N3 are typically about 13% and…
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Sam Altman Proposes World’s Largest Cash Incinerator
In a spasm of incisive journalism, we’re reporting that various news sites are reporting that the Wall Street Journal has reported that Sam Altman wants several trillion dollars from Arab sovereign-wealth funds to fab and deploy AI chips, calling the project GlobalFoundries 2: AI Boogaloo. Shine bright, Sam.
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AMD Ryzen Gets On Board With Xilinx Versal
Two years after completing its Xilinx acquisition, AMD has released a design combining an AMD-heritage processor with a Xilinx-heritage FPGA. The new AMD Embedded+ is a board, not a chip, however. It targets PC-like systems for industrial, medical, and other embedded applications. Taking over Xilinx, with its broad customer base, should help AMD expand its…
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You Would Think There’s a Single Optimal Heterogenous Multicore Configuration for Power, Performance, or Area
AMD’s blend of Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores in Phoenix 2 seems optimal, but the variety of heterogeneous multicore configurations in the wild suggests there’s no consensus optimum.