Author: Underfox

Over the last twenty years the semiconductor industry has been experiencing a radical paradigm shift caused by the death of Dennard scaling and the rise of the dark silicon phenomenon, which forced each company to adopt several different strategies in…

Improved computer responsiveness is crucial for the development of a modern multi-threaded computer system. However, when we look at the mobile environment where in many cases the core complex needs to remain in a low power or powered off state…

How to Build the Ultimate Deep Learning Beast in the Post-Moore Era Over the past few years we have witnessed the enormous effort of the semiconductor industry in its attempt to tackle the fundamental limits of the post Moore’s Law…

The Tianshu Zhixin was established in Nanjing in 2015 and having R&D centers in Nanjing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Beijing. In 2018 the company officially established a chip development team and began the development of their Big Island architecture, having…

Apple recently unveiled its newest M1 SoC to the world, designed specifically to meet the demand for improved performance on their Macs, challenging for the first time the hegemony of the x86 duopoly. Using the most recently developed 5nm TSMC…

When Intel announced it would launch its own GPUs, hiring former AMD graphics lead Raja Koduri in the process to head this ambitious endeavor, many wondered whether it was really possible for Intel to bring real innovation to the GPU…

The death of Dennard scaling and the rising of the phenomenon known as “dark silicon” have brought the IC industry to a crossroads: How to keep improving microprocessors with current power constraints without excessively increasing heat densities on the chip…

Last weekend we finally got the long-awaited launch of the new Nvidia Ampere GPU architecture which is meant to replace Volta in the segments of Cloud, AI and HPC applications, adding new features aimed at improving both energy efficiency and…

For over a decade the industry has been preparing to reach a new level for modern computer systems: Exascale computing. However, getting a computer system to reach 1018 floating point operations per second in a scenario where it could no…

A few days ago at the IEDM, Intel disclosed their future process node technologies, showing on what will probably become an iconic slide how Intel expects to have a 2-year cadence for the development of its manufacturing process node technology…