Year: 2025
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Marvell Copackages Optics for Custom Silicon
Marvell’s custom silicon operation now offers copackaged optics (CPO). Enabling systems to connect fiber-optic networks directly to chips such as AI accelerators (NPUs) and network switches raises per-chip bandwidth and extends interchip connectivity distances. Few companies offer CPO. Broadcom, Marvell’s main custom-silicon rival, has developed a few Ethernet switches implementing the technology and, this past…
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Serious to Laughable: Arm vs. Qualcomm LinkedIn Posts
For posterity’s sake, here are my LinkedIn posts from the Arm vs. Qualcomm trial. A key takeaway is that although I thought neither side argued well, Arm performed better but ultimately lost. Greed The Arm-Qualcomm trial has kicked off. Q has successfully portrayed Arm as greedy and obliterated Arm’s first witness. However, nothing so far…
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Who Needs Imagination When VeriSilicon has Vitality?
VeriSilicon has launched a new GPU family, Vitality. Available to license now and supporting DirectX 12, it includes tensor cores and targets cloud gaming.