AMD is addressing notebook PCs from multiple directions, fielding a mobile Ryzen that integrates an AI accelerator and a high-performance Ryzen that has up to 16 CPUs and large caches.
MPR recognizes the past year’s top products in the categories of data center, PC, embedded, smartphone, processor IP, and emerging technology. And the winners are...
The Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processor integrates multiple features that Intel disables in certain models. The company’s On Demand program allows customers to enable them postpurchase.
Startup Encharge AI has exited stealth mode, announcing its in-memory-compute technology. Its chips use analog technology and provide 20x more performance per watt than competitors.
Over the past year, a few CPU-IP vendors have adopted RISC-V, challenging both Arm and RISC-V startups. Meanwhile, AI-accelerator vendors are jockeying to stand out in a crowded field.
The year 2022 saw AI accelerators and DPU becoming mainstream in data center servers. Chiplets came to more CPUs while the chip power consumption reached a new high, necessitating a rethink in cooling.
NXP’s i.MX95 family targets industrial and automotive systems as well as consumer ones. With several CPUs and three computing domains, it exceeds what’s available today, but that gap may narrow by the time it ships.
Intel revealed more of its 13th Core generation, codenamed Raptor Lake. Four mobile families launched along with more desktop models. The company also updated its N-series processors.
Startup Ventana has revealed Veyron, its RISC-V compute chiplet for server processors. Performance of a Veyron-based processor could rival that of server processors from AMD and Intel.
This past year saw the introduction of new automotive chips that will power 2024-model-year vehicles. Driving the move towards domain and zonal architectures, they realize ideas that have been conceptual up to now.
China has established several conditions to enable growth of AI-chip companies. Many Chinese AI unicorns and other companies are serving the data-center and edge markets.
The newest MLPerf training results include scores for Nvidia’s Hopper H100. Depending on the subtest, the H100 is 7–160% faster than its predecessor. No other AI processor is as fast.
MediaTek’s new Kompanio 520 and 528 serve entry-level Chromebooks. With two higher-tier series targeting mid- and top-tier Chromebooks, the company has been free to optimize the new chips for cost and power.
