Proprietary technology helps startup Blue Cheetah rapidly create custom die-to-die interconnects, including analog circuits, to attach chiplets. Focusing on the BoW standard, the company supports two fab processes.

Chiplet use is increasing, primarily for large in-house computing projects, but small chip designs don’t benefit. A broad third-party chiplet market remains years away.

The TPUv4 is now generally available through Google Cloud, although the company has used it internally for a year. The ASIC doubles the number of matrix units relative to the TPUv3.

TSMC’s enhanced 3nm process, N3E, employs fewer double-pattered EUV layers and allows more flexibility in the number of transistor fins than its predecessor, N3.

A serdes transceiver from Eliyan allows 32Gbps bidirectional chiplet signaling. It can reduce system cost in some systems by eliminating interposers or reduce power by halving speeds with no net bandwidth change.

MediaTek’s new top-of-the-line smartphone processor upgrades to the latest cores and protocols, offering ray tracing and other new capabilities for premium-phone buyers.

SiFive’s P400 series CPUs deliver midrange performance in a little-core footprint. The three-way out-of-order design includes an optional vector unit.

Quadric’s Chimera DLA IP executes both neural-network code and application code. Ranging from 1 to 16 TOPS, it blends the functions of a CPU, a DSP, and a DLA.

Andes is taking its RISC-V lineup to the next level with the AX60 family, which uses a quad-issue out-of-order microarchitecture to double CPU performance relative to the earlier AX40 family.

An analysis of startups reveals an overall slowdown in AI- and ADAS-chip funding. But startup funding is growing in China even as it slows elsewhere.

Aim Future’s AI accelerator IP targets performance ranging from 32 GOPS to 16 TOPS. It optionally offers the ability to perform incremental learning at the edge.

Nvidia has revised its automotive roadmap, replacing the product code-named Atlan with the new Thor processor, which targets an impressive 2,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS).