Month: August 2025
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RISC-V Startup Condor Computing’s Cuzco Core Takes Flight
Condor Computing’s new Cuzco RISC-V core uses novel time-based instruction issuing, reducing power and area by eliminating CAM circuits and instruction replays. It’s a major microarchitectural innovation that exemplifies the opportunities the open RISC-V architecture fosters.
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Let’s Talk About Intel 18A Yield Rumors
This video discusses reports that have surfaced indicating that Intel 18A has poor yields.
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Obfuscated C Winner Emulates the Intel 4004 in 4,004 Bytes of C
To win the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, some guy developed a gate-level emulator of an Intel 4004 and Busicom calculator in only 4,004 bytes of C.
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Tesla Dojo Loses Mojo
Four years after disclosing its D1 AI accelerator (NPU), the heart of its Dojo system, electric-car company Tesla has pulled the plug. After unveiling the D1, the company touted grand plans, promising in July 2023, when it began Dojo production (a year after the initial public target), that it will have deployed enough computing capacity…
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Renesas Adds AI to an Industrial HMI Microprocessor
The Renesas RZ/G3E is an Arm-based microprocessor for industrial HMI applications that features Cortex-A55 CPUs, video codecs, and an Ethos-U55 NPU for AI. We see such chips as increasingly boxed in by competing alternatives, however.
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What Would 100% Semiconductor Tariffs Mean?
The US proposes a 100% semiconductor tariff on imports. Details are unclear, but it could hit some unexpected countries.