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01/29/23: A feature by phoronix analyses the AVX-512 performance of AMD’s Genoa and Intel’s Sapphire Rapids.
01/29/23: A news article by Tom’s Hardware covers rumors on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4. Additional press coverage is available through heise online.
01/29/23: The final part of Jeremy Reimer’s “A history of ARM” is now available.
01/29/23: Android will support RISC-V in the future as discussed in the keynote The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V by Google’s Lars Bergstrom.
01/29/23: A presentation by Erik Engheim gently convers RISC-V microprocessors.
01/29/23: EuroHPC will fund the development of RISC-V hardware and a corresponding software stack.
01/29/23: An opinion piece by David Patterson addresses common statements about RISC-V.
01/29/23: Nvidia released additional details on its Grace CPU Superchip.
01/29/23: An article by Chips and Cheese analyzes Golden Cove’s vector register file in the light of 512-bit and 256-bit workloads.
01/29/23: A video of the YouTube channel “Moore’s Law Is Dead” discusses Intel’s and AMD’s processor roadmaps.
01/29/23: AMD introduced the MI300 accelerator.
01/29/23: An article by The Next Platform discusses IBM’s POWER10 in the light of memory bandwidth.
01/29/23: Intel released its Q4 2022 financial results. The results are, for example, covered by Tom’s Hardware or The Register.
01/29/23: Riken is expanding Fugaku to the cloud. The targeted Graviton3 instance have the same ISA (AArch64 + SVE) as Fugaku’s A64FX nodes.
01/29/23: SiFive and Intel announced the RISC-V HiFive Pro P550 board.
01/29/23: A Chips and Cheese article reflects on AMD’s Bulldozer.
01/09/23: A feature by IEEE’s Spectrum celebrates the 75th anniversary of the transistor.
01/09/23: A presentation by Bill Dally (NVIDIA, Stanford) analyzes trends in deep learning hardware.
01/09/23: A piece by TheRegister and one by TheNextPlatform discuss the introduction of Graviton3E, an Armv9 processor.
12/13/22: Hot Chips recordings and slides are now available free of charge.
11/28/22: NVIDIA announced its financial results in Q3 22. An analysis of the results can be found at The Next Platform.
11/28/22: NVIDIA and Microsoft are partnering on building AI supercomputers in the public cloud.
11/24/22: The arcticle New Records for the Biggest and Smallest AI Computers discusses the performance of recent chips when running AI benchmarks.
11/21/22: A blog entry by NVIDIA discusses its Grace Hopper Superchip architecture.
11/21/22: AMD launched its 4th generation EPYC processors, code-named “Genoa”. Respective media coverage includes The Next Platform and ServeTheHome.
11/21/22: An article by Chips and Cheese discusses AMDs recently introduced Zen4 microarchitecture.
11/21/22: SiFive introduced two new RISC-V processor designs targeting wearable and consumer products.
11/21/22: Intel presented Sapphire Rapids as part of its Chalk Talk series.
11/21/22: The talk Reinventing Compute - How necessity will transform next-generation infrastructure discusses the future of compute infastructure from Google’s perspective.
11/07/22: The piece Chip Makers, Once in High Demand, Confront Sudden Challenges by The New York Times discusses the current situation of the semiconductor industry.
11/07/22: The Washington Post’s article Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool highlights the strong demand of the U.S. tech sector for computer engineers.
10/24/22: The clip AMD Ryzen 9 7950X: Cost to Manufacture? discusses raw manufacturing costs of AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X processor.
10/23/22: The story Machine Learning’s New Math discusses the rise of new number formats fueled by demands of machine learning workloads.
10/22/22: AMD will unveil its next generation of GPUs and present details on RDNA3 at its upcoming together we advance_gaming event (11/03).
10/22/22: The post Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770 compares Intel’s Arc A770 GPU to Nvidia’s and AMD’s offering using a series of microbenchmarks.
10/22/22: IBM announced its new Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU) targeted at deep learning workloads. The Application-specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) features low-precision compute and direct communication between compute the chip’s compute engines.
10/22/22: An article by The Economist discusses recent and future developments of the chip industry from a market perspective.
10/22/22: Oracle announced that it will bring Nvidia’s AI software and tens of thousands of GPUs to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). A fireside chat of the companies’ CEOs discusses these efforts.
10/22/22: The fifth State of AI Report was released and documents recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The industry section of the report includes respective hardware developments. A highlighted example are NVIDIA’s efforts to use reinforcement learning for the design of efficient arithmetic circuits.
10/17/22: An in-depth discussion of Intel’s Skylake is available from Chips and Cheese.
10/13/22: Intel launched the first generation of its Arc GPUs targeted at desktop graphics.
10/13/22: The article How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor (first published in 1994) reflects on the career of Marcian E. Hoff. This includes the development of Intel 4004, the first microprocessor of the world.
10/12/22: A recent piece by Ian Cutress shares his experiences at Tesla’s AI Day 2022 and respective opinions, especially in the context of Tesla’s Dojo system.
10/11/22: Google just announced the new C3 machine series of its Google Cloud. C3 is available in private preview and will feature Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids generation of processors and a custom Intel IPU. Further, as presented in the opening keynote of Google Cloud Next ‘22 (min 34), Google’s TPU v4 is now in general availability.
10/10/22: As reported by Wikichip Intel presented its Horse Creek RISC-V software development board at the Intel Innovation 2022 Developer Conference.
10/06/22: Jeremy Reimer’s feature A history of ARM presents the history of ARM starting all the way back in 1983.
10/06/22: The past, present and future of Intel’s FGPA business is discussed in the article Intel To Broaden FPGA Lineup And Make Them At Home.
09/22/22: The article Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm by T. P. Morgan discusses the future of Arm and RISC-V designs in the server space.
09/22/22: Arm unveiled that Nvidia’s Grace will use the Armv9 V2 core of the Neoverse V-Series.