Year: 2024
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Movellus AWM3 Speeds Up Droop Response for Monster Data Center Chips
The Movellus AWM3 clock generator tackles voltage droop in massive data center chips. Its 50% faster response helps improve performance and reduce energy consumption. By offering closed-loop droop detection, response, and analysis, Movellus aims to simplify chip design for next-gen processing units.
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Syntiant NDP250 Supercharges Edge AI with At-Memory Architecture
Syntiant’s NDP250 NPU boasts 5× faster performance for edge AI tasks. This low-power chip uses an at-memory design for efficient processing in applications like smart doorbells. The company offers development tools, production-quality pretrained models, and services to simplify AI implementation, not just for use with its NPUs but also with other chips.
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Is Windows AI Explorer Exclusive to Snapdragon or Open to All?
Rumors suggest Microsoft’s Windows AI Explorer might require a Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X processor. This raises questions about Microsoft’s strategy: leverage a limited base for high profits (a skim strategy) or prioritize wider adoption (a penetrate strategy). While Intel boasts AI-powered processors in 2024, they lag competing chips from AMD and Qualcomm. With Arm PC…
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Rivos Emerges from Stealth, Hints at RISC-V Plans
Rivos has raised $250 million to develop a RISC-V-based processor that accelerates data-parallel operations yet aims to be easy to program.
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Another Cloud Company Flexes Arm
Google joins the Arm server race with its Axion processor, promising better performance and efficiency than x86 chips for Google Cloud. Axion frees Google from reliance on AMD and Intel and could reduce costs, including energy expenses. As Arm’s ecosystem grows, cloud customers may also benefit.
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AI, RISC-V, and FPGAs Take the Stage at Embedded World 2024
Embedded World 2024 showcased advancements in processor technology, including for artificial intelligence (AI), the RISC-V CPU architecture, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), including announcements from Altera, AMD, Arm, NXP, and others.