Intel Foundry published a two article series on chip power delivery that are worth reading. Here is a quick summary:
Artificial intelligence is changing the requirements for semiconductor innovation. Faster transistors and denser packaging remain essential, but their benefits increasingly depend on another engineering… Read More
How VSORA rebalances memory and compute for AI inference in the data center and at the edge
For more than a decade, the AI hardware industry focused mainly on model training, while inference represented a smaller share of overall demand. That balance is changing as trained models are deployed widely in recommendation engines, … Read More
OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a custom accelerator designed specifically for AI inference, particularly the low-latency, multi-chip workloads behind interactive and agentic systems. Its central idea is that useful performance cannot be reduced to peak floating-point operations or memory bandwidth. What matters is how quickly … Read More
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence hardware, memory bandwidth and data movement have become just as important as raw compute power. Addressing this challenge head-on, Semidynamics has announced a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the development of its next-generation memory-centric AI … Read More
Intel has posted three consecutive years of falling revenue and an $18.76 billion loss in 2024 alone—and the U.S. government has handed it tens of billions of dollars to fix the problem. The government money isn’t fixing the real issue, which isn’t technical. It’s cultural. Intel got slow, political, and risk-averse—the… Read More
NanoIC has announced a major expansion of its process design kit portfolio with the introduction of its first A14 logic and embedded eDRAM memory PDK. This milestone reflects the company’s growing role in enabling advanced semiconductor design at cutting-edge technology nodes and addresses increasing industry demand for… Read More
A century ago, 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California, housed an apricot-packing shed. Today, it’s marked by sculptures of diodes and a transistor, commemorating the 1956 founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory—the birthplace of Silicon Valley. William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, aimed… Read More
Naveen Verma, Ph.D., is the CEO and Co-founder of EnCharge AI, the only company to have developed robust and scalable analog in-memory computing technology essential for advanced AI deployments, from edge to cloud. Dr. Verma co-founded EnCharge AI in 2022, building on six years of research and five generations of prototypes … Read More
Systolic arrays, with their ability to highly parallelize matrix operations, are at the heart of many modern AI accelerators. Their regular structure is ideally suited to matrix/matrix multiplication, a repetitive sequence of row-by-column multiply-accumulate operations. But that regular structure is less than ideal … Read More
Recently, a partnership between Achronix and Bluespec has been in the news. Bluespec RISC-V processors are available as soft cores in a Speedster®7t FPGA on Achronix’s VectorPath® PCIe development card or in a standalone Speedster7t FPGA. We spoke with executives from Achronix and Bluespec about the impetus for this effort … Read More
