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When you’re choosing a smartphone or tablet, you’ll notice that some models use Intel processors, while others are based on the competing ARM architecture. This latter camp includes the Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Nvidia Tegra, and Apple A7
ARM Announces N2 Neoverse Computing Cores for Data Centres Recently, ARM announced details surrounding its next-generation processors aimed at the data centre and edge computing market. What challenges do data centres and edge devices face, what details have been released around the N2 architecture, and could RISC be the dominant CPU technology? What challenges do data centres and edge devices face? While the power and technology used in computing technology have undergone major changes, the development of large computers that take up entire rooms still exists today. Of course, modern compute...
Nvidia Developing Custom ARM-based ‘Grace’ Datacentre Processors Recently, Nvidia announced that it is working on a custom ARM-based datacentre processor that will directly challenge Intel. What will the Grace processors provide, why do ARM processors make ideal candidates for next-generation datacentres, and does this fuel controversy around the Nvidia/ARM deal? Nvidia to Create ‘Grace’ Datacentre Processors Recently, Nvidia announced that it is in the process of designing custom datacentre processors utilising ARM cores. The code name for the processor, Grace, was chosen after the c...
RISC-V (pronounced RISC-5) is the brainchild of UC Berkeley professors David Patterson and Krste Asanović. Patterson has a talent for catchy acronyms and architectures as a developer of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) and RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) in the 1980s. They outlined the case for RISC-V in this paper. What is an ISA? An ISA as an interface -- similar to an Application Programming Interface (API) -- for CPU operations. A compiler or interpreter translates your high-level language, such as C, into ISA commands for the processor to perform work. Each ISA inst...