• 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… continue reading

  • RISC-V Startup Condor Computing’s Cuzco Core Takes Flight

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    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. continue reading

  • Let’s Talk About Intel 18A Yield Rumors

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    This video discusses reports that have surfaced indicating that Intel 18A has poor yields. continue reading

  • Obfuscated C Winner Emulates the Intel 4004 in 4,004 Bytes of C

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    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. continue reading

  • Tesla Dojo Loses Mojo

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    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… continue reading

  • Renesas Adds AI to an Industrial HMI Microprocessor

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    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. continue reading

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