Cortex-X3 Proves Its Area Efficiency

Cortex-X3 Proves Its Area Efficiency

TechInsights’ floorplan analyses of smartphone processors reveal the size of CPUs and caches.
Dimensity 6100+ Lags at Low End

Dimensity 6100+ Lags at Low End

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 offers more-powerful CPUs and faster DRAM than MediaTek’s Dimensity 6100+, but neither new chip delivers much improvement to low-cost smartphones.
Editorial: Intel Refocuses Manufacturing

Editorial: Intel Refocuses Manufacturing

Intel’s new accounting approach gives financial responsibility to manufacturing, treating business units as internal customers. This greater accountability should help the overall profitability and competitiveness of its foundry business.
Tiny AI Benchmark Matches Up MCUs

Tiny AI Benchmark Matches Up MCUs

Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics feature prominently in MLPerf Tiny v1.1 results, and Plumerai’s inference engine demonstrates how it speeds up model execution.
Meta AI Chip Targeted Recommenders

Meta AI Chip Targeted Recommenders

Meta has developed an AI accelerator chip called MTIA, following in the footsteps of Google and Amazon. Employing RISC V CPUs and fixed-function units, the chip offered 102 INT8 TOPS at 25 W TDP.
Lightelligence Connects Chiplets

Lightelligence Connects Chiplets

Lightelligence’s ONoc interposer connects chiplets optically through silicon waveguides on a monolithic multireticle substrate. The company launched a machine-learning application as a demonstrator.
MLPerf Benchmarks GPT Training Times

MLPerf Benchmarks GPT Training Times

The MLPerf benchmark added tests to assess GPT-training performance. AI processors from Nvidia and Intel (Habana) both exhibit good scaling.
Arm G720 Adds New Rendering Path

Arm G720 Adds New Rendering Path

Fifth Generation Mali/Immortalis GPU Architecture Defers Vertex Shading
Arm DSU-120 Lowers Dynamic, Static Power

Arm DSU-120 Lowers Dynamic, Static Power

Updated Arm v9.2 Cluster Interconnect Adds CPUs, Doubles L3 Cache
Rebellions Optimizes Chip For Latency

Rebellions Optimizes Chip For Latency

South Korean AI startup Rebellions has launched Atom, an AI-accelerator card targeting the high-frequency trading market. The company has raised over $100 million and has released ResNet-50 MLPerf benchmark performance data.
CXM GPUs Add HDR to Mainstream

CXM GPUs Add HDR to Mainstream

Imagination Technologies’ new licensable CXM GPU family brings high-dynamic-range (HDR) support to its mainstream offering. With three new models, the company claims high area efficiency.
Intel Merges Habana With Xe GPUs

Intel Merges Habana With Xe GPUs

The company has streamlined its data-center AI roadmap, creating a new version of Falcon Shores that combines the Xe GPU architecture with some aspects of Habana’s AI design, which is delayed to 2025.
Moffett Chip Targets AI Sparsity

Moffett Chip Targets AI Sparsity

Moffett, a startup headquartered in Shenzen, China, has released AI accelerators that address sparsity to increase performance 32x. The company offers three cards spanning a 70–250 W TDP range.
AmpereOne Lowers Server-Rack Power

AmpereOne Lowers Server-Rack Power

The Arm-compatible AmpereOne server processor implements 192 single-thread cores of Ampere’s own design in a chiplet-based package.
AMD’s Area Efficiency Beats Intel’s

AMD’s Area Efficiency Beats Intel’s

TechInsights’ floorplan analysis of desktop-PC processors quantifies the size difference among AMD and Intel CPUs.
Gate-All-Around Cranks Up Logic Speed

Gate-All-Around Cranks Up Logic Speed

Nanosheet transistors are superior to FinFETs for logic transistors, offering an adjustable gate width, superior electrostatic characteristics, and better channel-thickness uniformity as well as faster switching speed. They have drawbacks for SRAM and I/O transistors, however.