Seven Projects Innovating Around RISC-V
Spanning the full range from huge chips for AI to virtual cores in Minecraft.
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Spanning the full range from huge chips for AI to virtual cores in Minecraft.
A YouTuber called Moore's Law is Dead recently leaked a couple AMD slides about Zen 5. I typically find leaks uninteresting as they are impossible to verify and often don't correspond to reality. One example is leakers expecting RDNA 3 to one-up Nvidia's Ada architecture. AMD is fighting two larger competitors on two fronts and…
Cell phones have to handle telecommunications and audiovisual processing while maximizing battery life. Digital Signal Processors, or DSPs, use specialized hardware to offload these tasks from the CPU which lowers power usage. From an old Qualcomm presentation on Snapdragon 800, showing Hexagon's evolution. Note the large blocks of L2/TCM SRAM Qualcomm's Hexagon has a long…
NVIDIA "Huang's Law" is the primary catalyst for driving chip performance and efficiency to over 1000x in less than a decade.
Huang's Law for GPU performance has delivered 1000x improvements in the last decade and is chiefly driven by ingenuity, says Nvidia's Chief Scientist.