Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite for laptops finally achieves competitive Arm-architecture performance while keeping power low. It’s the company’s first use of its Nuvia-originated CPU.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 uses more, faster CPUs and fewer power-efficient CPUs to boost performance. The company’s glitzy AI demos highlight’s what’s now possible on a phone.
AI-chip startups raised billions of dollars in prior years, but this year investors turned their attention to RISC-V startups. The new instruction set faces both technical and business challenges.
SiFive’s P870 CPU is a high-throughput RISC-V core, implementing a wide microarchitecture and promising performance exceeding that of Arm’s fastest Cortex-A CPU.
Intel is spinning its FPGA division out into a separate reportable division. After a couple of years, it may issue public shares in a portion of the new company, maintaining a controlling stake for itself.
Code-named Raptor Lake Refresh, Intel’s 14th-generation Core processors add little to the 13th-generation Raptor Lake. We expect them to mainly target desktop PCs while Meteor Lake addresses mobile-PC designs.
Huawei launched the Mate 60 Pro phone with a 7 nm processor fabricated in China, seemingly in contravention of Western sanctions. They did it by employing multiple-patterning lithography.
The AMD Epyc 8004 (Siena) processor targets telco and other embedded designs. Employing the Zen 4C CPU, it’s similar to the recent Bergamo server processor but has fewer CPUs and DRAM interfaces and a smaller package.
Peak raw performance of the Hexagon-based AI accelerator in Qualcomm’s newest flagship smartphone processor is 4× greater than that of the previous generation.
Industry leaders duke it out on the new LLM test included in the new version of the MLPerf data-center inference benchmark while also pursuing efficiency gains.
Intel, Ayar Labs, and Lightelligence ran experiments demonstrating the benefit of fiber in an optical mesh network and its use in accessing remote memory via CXL.
Less than two years after acquiring Pensando, AMD is readying the new Giglio DPU that tweaks the earlier Elba design to raise performance and reduce power.
Nuclei Systems, a Chinese RISC-V processor vendor, announced a licensable RISC-V CPU core certified for ASIL D automotive applications, the most stringent level.