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Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys

January 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

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. …

HPC

The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create

January 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …

Code

Amazon Opens Up Solver At The Heart Of Quantum Chip Effort

February 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy. …

AI

Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?

February 8, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …

Compute

Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC

February 27, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …

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