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By Thang Tran
For more than half a century, the foundations of computing have stood on a single architecture: the Von Neumann or Harvard model. Nearly all modern chips—CPUs, GPUs, and even many specialized accelerators—rely on some variant of this design. Over time, the industry has layered on complexity and specialization to… Read More
By Dr. Thang Minh Tran, CEO/CTO Simplex Micro
Today’s AI accelerators—whether built for massive data centers or low-power edge devices—face a common set of challenges: deep pipelines, complex data dependencies, and the high cost of speculative execution. These same concerns have long been familiar in high-frequency microprocessor… Read More
By Dr. Thang Minh Tran, CEO/CTO Simplex Micro
In the world of modern computing, speculative execution has played a pivotal role in boosting performance by allowing processors to guess the outcomes of instructions ahead of time, keeping pipelines full and reducing idle cycles. Initially introduced during the development of … Read More