Compute
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
RISC-V
Compute
Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …
HPC
Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
Compute
On-Chip Wizardry To Optimize Performance At Scale
As server chips have evolved from simple processors into complex, heterogeneous SoCs, it has become a lot more challenging to optimize the software running on them. …
AI
AI Redefines Performance Requirements At The Edge
In a broad sense, the history of computing is the constant search for the ideal system architecture. …
Compute
Startup Takes a Risk on RISC-V Custom Silicon
As we are carefully watching here, there is a perfect storm brewing in the semiconductor space, both for manufacturers and system designers. …
Compute
Can Open Source Hardware Crack Semiconductor Industry Economics?
The running joke is that when a headline begs a question, the answer is, quite simply, “No.” …
Compute
RISC-V Inching Closer to Reality at Scale
Back in the early 1990s, the common view was that there was little money to be made in the business of open source. …