PentaG-RAN IP Targets Base Stations

Ceva’s PentaG-RAN is a baseband IP block for cellular infrastructure. Packing multiple fixed-function units and two DSP types, it targets SoCs for RUs, DUs, small cells, and beam-forming chips.
24Oct

Zen 3 Goes Embedded

AMD’s new Ryzen Embedded V3000 family addresses networking and storage with the Zen 3 microarchitecture. It features up to eight CPUs but omits GPUs.
24Oct

Neoverse V2 Pressures x86 Servers

Arm’s next Neoverse CPU, code-named Demeter, will appear in Nvidia’s Grace processor in 2023, matching the single-thread performance of mainstream Xeon products for the first time.
24Oct

STMicroelectronics Enters the Zone

STMicroelectronics’ new SR6P7x and SR6P6x automotive SoCs aggregate low-level ECUs into domains or zones. With a novel choice of nonvolatile memory for code, the company has a strong focus on deterministic real-time performance.
17Oct

Sapeon Adds AI to Edge Servers

After spinning off from SK Telecom, Sapeon has become the first Korean company to deliver an AI chip. The X220 provides an efficient accelerator for both video analysis and language processing.
10Oct

AMD Zen 4 Adds AVX-512

Zen 4 increases IPC and runs much faster than Zen 3 owing to optimized circuits, a process shrink, bigger buffers, deeper queues, and a larger micro-op cache.
03Oct

Raptor Lake Adds Little Cores

Despite a short design cycle, Intel boosted the performance of its 13th Generation Core processor by up to 15% over the previous generation through higher clock speeds and more “efficiency” cores.
03Oct