• Why License Verilog When You Can Use Excel?

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    Some guy made a gate-level CPU design in Excel. I’m only disappointed the compiler is in Python instead of VBA. continue reading

  • Meta Attempts an Inference Chip Again

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    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

  • AMD Hawk Point and Phoenix 2 Deliver Value to Mainstream PC Users

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    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

  • Is Intel Meteor Lake a New Centrino Moment?

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    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

  • AMD Steps Towards Becoming a Major NPU Supplier with MI300X and MI300A

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    In December 2023 AMD disclosed details of the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. The HPC and AI GPU is a packaging tour-de-force and promises more computing performance than rival’s offerings, including Nvidia’s H100 (Hopper). The Frontier supercomputer will employ the MI300, as will Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle. These latter three will use it for AI, and… continue reading

  • Marvell Octeon CN103 Keeps Comm Processors Alive

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    The Marvell Octeon 10 CN103 is a midrange Arm-based communications processor (DPU) featuring eight Arm cores and 100 gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Marvell is among the last companies targeting control-plane processing in Ethernet switches, 5G small cells, SD-WAN systems, and conventional firewalls and routers. continue reading

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