Here is how you know that the way chiplets are linked together to create what might have otherwise been a monolithic device is now more important than the way that the chiplets themselves are designed. …
Although our appetite for a vast range of AI accelerators appears to be waning, or at least condensing down to a few options, there might be methods on the horizon to let accelerator designers explore new concepts in an interesting way. …
For those of us who like hardware and were hoping for a big reveal about the TPUv5e AI processor and surrounding system, interconnect, and software stack at the Hot Chips 2023 conference this week, the opening keynote by Jeff Dean and Amin Vahdat, the two most important techies at Google, was a bit of a disappointment. …
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
As an engineering director leading research projects into the application of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to computational software for electronic design automation (EDA), I believe I have a unique perspective on the future of the electronic and electronic design industries. …
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
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