Year: 2025
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The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Adds AI Options
For its newest flagship smartphone processor, MediaTek has adopted the most recent Arm technology, including the SME2 capabilities that speed up CPU-based AI processing. That’s not the only AI-related enhancement, however. The Dimensity 9500 includes a second-generation AI accelerator (NPU) that doubles the peak execution rate of its predecessor and adds a new low-power NPU…
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Introducing The Byrne-Wheeler Report
Bob Wheeler and I have launched a video podcast covering chip news. Episode 1 covers the Hot Interconnects and Hot Chips conferences, as well as Arm’s Lumex and Nvidia’s Rubin CPX announcements. We hope you enjoy this new format, which will complement our respective written analysis.
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Nvidia Discloses Rubin CPX, an Unexpected Data-Center GPU
Nvidia has unveiled the Rubin CPX, an AI chip for data centers that was not previously on their public roadmaps. It can offload LLMs’ decode stages.
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Nvidia Draws Intel Near
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. Intel agrees to supply Nvidia customized Xeons (presumably by adding NVLink) and to use Nvidia GPUs in its PC processors.
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Can the Ubitium UB410 be the First Universal Processor?
Startup Ubitium is about to tape out its first chip, which it calls a universal processor. The forthcoming UB410 is RISC-V compatible and aims to replace CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs. Initially focusing on consumer applications, the company seeks to provide a unified environment for general-purpose, AI, signal-processing, and other code. Ubitium’s founders have…
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Arm Reveals Lumex IP for Mobile Clients
Arm has disclosed its first Lumex-branded licensable designs (IP) for mobile clients. Predominantly targeting smartphones, the Lumex platform includes four CPU performance tiers and is the company’s first implementation of Scalable Matrix Extensions (SME2) for AI processing and other matrix-math workloads. Alongside the new CPUs, Arm has updated its Mali GPU, adding ray-tracing acceleration. New…