Year: 2024
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Why License Verilog When You Can Use Excel?
Some guy made a gate-level CPU design in Excel. I’m only disappointed the compiler is in Python instead of VBA.
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Meta Attempts an Inference Chip Again
Reuters reports that Meta (Facebook) plans to deploy its own data-center inference chip. The appeal of such a design is clear, but Meta scrapped a past inference-chip design and turned down using off-the-shelf inference-only chips.
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AMD Hawk Point and Phoenix 2 Deliver Value to Mainstream PC Users
Desktop and laptop PCs incorporating AMD’s Phoenix 2 and Hawk Point processors will soon be available. They’re follow-ons to last year’s Phoenix APU. To cut cost, Phoenix 2 mixes Zen 4 and Zen 4c CPUs, and it has a smaller GPU and no NPU, shrinking the die 23%. Hawk Point’s big selling point over Phoenix…