David Schor

VLSI 2018: Next Week’s Samsung and GlobalFoundries Papers

David SchorVLSI 2018June 17, 2018 Tagged 10nm, 14nm, 7nm, 8nm, FinFET, GlobalFoundries, Qualcomm, Samsung, VLSI 2018, VLSI Symposium

A preview of some of the process technology papers from next week’s VLSI Symposium.

Core i7-8086K Overclockability Silicon Lottery Stats

David SchorDesktop ProcessorsJune 17, 2018 Tagged Coffee Lake, Core i7, Intel, Silicon Lottery, x86, Yield

Silicon Lottery has published new statistics regarding the overclockability of Intel’s hexa-core commemorative Core i7-8086K processor.

ORNL’s 200-petaFLOPS Summit Supercomputer Has Arrived, To Become World’s Fastest

David SchorSupercomputersJune 16, 2018 Tagged DoE, IBM, Nvidia, NVLink, ORNL, PCIe 4.0, POWER, Supercomputer

A look at the 200-petaFLOPS Summit supercomputer which was officially unveiled last Friday by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

A Look at Intel’s 10nm Std Cell as TechInsights Reports on the i3-8121U, finds Ruthenium

David SchorCircuit Design, Process TechnologiesJune 15, 2018 Tagged 10nm, cobalt, Intel, Intel Custom Foundry, metallization stack, ruthenium, TechInsights

WikiChip takes another look at Intel’s 10-nanometer standard cell design and discusses TechInsights findings of the first 10nm-based chip, the i3-8121U.

Wave to acquire MIPS

David SchorEmbedded Processors, Neural ProcessorsJune 13, 2018 Tagged AI, MIPS, neural processors, Wave Computing

Wave Computing will be acquiring MIPS Technologies.

Intel Announces a 5 GHz Core i7-8086K, Launches on the 40th Anniversary of the 8086

David SchorDesktop ProcessorsJune 5, 2018 Tagged 14nm, 8086, Coffee Lake, Intel, x86

Intel has announced a new limited edition 5 GHz Core i7-8086K processor special celebratory chip in honor of the 40th anniversary of Intel’s x86 architecture.

A Look at Cavium’s New High-Performance ARM Microprocessors and the Isambard Supercomputer

David SchorServer Processors, SupercomputersJune 3, 2018 Tagged 16nm, ARM, ARMv8, Cavium, HPC, ThunderX, ThunderX2, Vulcan

Reaching general availability, here is a look at Cavium’s new ThunderX2 family of high-performance ARM microprocessors for the data center.

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Cambricon Reaches for the Cloud With a Custom AI Accelerator, Talks 7nm IPs

David SchorNeural ProcessorsMay 26, 2018 Tagged 16nm, 7nm, accelerator, AI, Cambricon, edge computing, inference, MLU

Cambricon has announced their first high-performance and high-power AI accelerator for the data center in an effort to gain market share in the growing Chinese AI market.