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IP Market Large, Growing, and Strange
The semiconductor IP market is big, growing, lopsided, lumpy, and weird. What it’s not is particularly lucrative. Which is odd, considering that you’re selling the…
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AI Sparks Hyper-Competition
Big data center operators say they are seeing a steady stream of new architectures for accelerating deep learning neural networks—and the flow is just getting…
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From Chiplet to Chiplet
A couple of months ago we talked about the new chip disintegration approach: chiplets. And even longer ago, we talked about zGlue’s fabric for interconnecting…
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The Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse (Part 1)
Since time immemorial, humans have been drawn to the idea of creating artificial creatures and intelligences. In Jewish folklore, for example, a golem is an…
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Embedded File Systems: a Tricky Task
“Fast, cheap, or reliable: pick any two” – Racer’s adage Storing data used to be so easy. You’d MOV or POKE a few bytes into…
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Group Puzzles Out Silicon Specs
Someday, a new class of semiconductor companies will assemble their products Lego-style, mixing and matching dice from multiple companies. It’s a huge change that’s still…
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RAMPing Up Always-On AI
With the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and, more specifically, machine learning (ML), this is a time of great architectural innovation as developers…
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High-End FPGA Showdown – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the new high-end FPGA families from Achronix, Intel, and Xilinx. We compared the underlying semiconductor processes,…
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Hot Chips 2019
[A previous version of this article contained a metaphor to watching pornography which has been removed, with our apologies.] For two days in late August,…
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Why Your Computer is Slower Than a 1970s PC
“I’m not deaf. I’m ignoring you.” T-shirt wisdom Devo and The Tubes warned us this would happen: it’s de-evolution, or the completion backwards principle. We’re…