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AMD Ryzen Gets On Board With Xilinx Versal
Two years after completing its Xilinx acquisition, AMD has released a design combining an AMD-heritage processor with a Xilinx-heritage FPGA. The new AMD Embedded+ is a board, not a chip, however. It targets PC-like systems for industrial, medical, and other embedded applications. Taking over Xilinx, with its broad customer base, should help AMD expand its… continue reading
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You Would Think There’s a Single Optimal Heterogenous Multicore Configuration for Power, Performance, or Area
AMD’s blend of Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores in Phoenix 2 seems optimal, but the variety of heterogeneous multicore configurations in the wild suggests there’s no consensus optimum. continue reading
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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. continue reading
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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. continue reading
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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… continue reading
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Is Intel Meteor Lake a New Centrino Moment?
One can imagine the sighs let out in Santa Clara when Intel’s long-delayed Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) PC processors were officially launched in December 2023. CEO Pat Gelsinger refers to Meteor’s launch as a Centrino moment, harkening back two decades to a time when Intel’s PC-processor strategy was getting back on track and a new… continue reading
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