Month: May 2024
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Arm Cortex-X925 Boosts Vectors, Cortex-A725 Raises Efficiency
A few big microarchitecture changes and a lot of small ones lie behind Arm’s performance and efficiency claims for the Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725 CPUs.
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Hard Macros Are Back in Town Thanks to the Arm Client CSS
Alongside the new Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725 CPUs and Immortalis-G925 GPU, Arm has unveiled client CSS, predesigned chip blocks for peak performance, power and area. However, Arm must clarify the CSS’s target market and the CPUs’ and GPU’s performance gains.
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AmpereOne Adds Cores as Ampere Toys with Two-Edged Swords
Ampere has announced a new 256-core, 3 nm AmpereOne processor and an AI collaboration with Qualcomm. Ampere’s efficiency focus may not be enough against competitors and for cloud giants building their own chips. Arm’s ascendancy in computing suggests Ampere consider a niche beyond data centers.
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1Q24 Processor Market: Four Billion is Not Enough
On the back of rising Epyc sales and a strengthening MI300 outlook, AMD is gaining data-center share on Intel. The PC-market recovery continues, while the embedded-market recovery should be underway in Q3.
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Google Trillium Blooms, Promising AI Efficiency and Speed
Google unveils the Trillium TPU, its next-gen AI chip (NPU) that features larger MXU matrix units to boost throughput and updated SparseCores to handle embeddings.
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Plug: The SHD Group is Developing a Complimentary Edge-AI Processor and Ecosystem Report
I’ve joined the SHD Group to produce an edge-AI report. Intended to be a resource for both product developers and technology suppliers, it will detail processors integrating AI, accelerators, software, and services and deliver insights into edge AI application requirements. We’re partnering with the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, and our research dovetails with recent…