It has taken eight years and $303 million in seed and three rounds of venture funding, but NextSilicon is today delivering several incarnations of its 64-bit dataflow engine, called Maverick-2, which was revealed this time last year when the company dropped out of stealth mode. …
Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. …
Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. …
Many have waited years to hear someone like Prahlad Venkatapuram, Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, say what came out this week at the RISC-V Summit:
“We’ve identified that RISC-V is the way to go for us moving forward for all the products we have in the roadmap. …
It took the X86 architecture fifteen years get an appreciable share of datacenter compute, and it took the Arm architecture about ten years to get a foothold you could measure. …
When hyperscalers and cloud builders think about their infrastructure, they talk about megawatts and they think about the mix of serving and storage and the total capacity that is delivered in a megawatt of power. …
As we pointed out a year ago when some key silicon experts were hired from Intel and Broadcom to come work for Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook was always the most obvious place to do custom silicon. …
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of functionality with room for some originality, and there is true open source. …
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …
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