AMD introduces Ryzen 2nd Gen up for pre-order
Ahead of its April 19th release, AMD is now offering pre-orders for their 2nd Generation, Ryzen 2000 family, desktop processors.
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Author: David Schor
Intel discloses Tremont, a Goldmont Plus successor
Intel has disclosed a new “Tremont” microarchitecture along with the release of their latest architecture ISA programming reference.
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Intel unleashes 8th Gen Core Coffee Lake lineup
Intel unveils the full 8th Generation Core desktop and mobile microprocessors lineup based on their latest Coffee Lake microarchitecture.
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ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Self-Powered Intelligent IoT Edge Mote
A look at Intel’s tiny intelligent IoT edge mote operating at near-threshold voltage and harvesting solar energy for charging. Equipped with sensors and an SoC with hardware to accelerate convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the chip collects environmental sensory data and captures images which are classified on-chip and sent to a data center in order to improve and optimize agricultural fields.
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ISSCC 2018: AMD’s Zeppelin; Multi-chip routing and packaging
A look at AMD’s Zeppelin SoC and the Infinity Fabric, a multi-chip architecture used by AMD to scale their SoC design from the mainstream PC market all the way to the server market.
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ISSCC 2018: MIT’s low-power hardware crypto RISC-V IoT processor
In recent years, IoT devices have been plagued with security issues. Memory and energy constraints of those low-power devices mean there is very little headroom for complex security implementations. At ISSCC 2018, a team of MIT researchers has attempted to address this problem with their low-power fully in-hardware crypto engine IoT RISC-V processor.
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ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Skylake-SP Mesh and Floorplan
At ISSCC 2018 Intel gave us some more interesting architectural details of their latest Skylake server microprocessors which brought a new mesh interconnect, a new cache hierarchy, and wider vector operations among a large array of other enhancements.
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GlobalFoundries 14HP process, a marriage of two technologies
As IBM starts shipping their latest server microprocessors we take a look at the process technology that’s enabling those capabilities. Though largely thought to be the same as the original process IBM detailed back in 2014, following their fab selloff the process has undergone some unique changes making it a distinctly GlobalFoundries process now.
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The RISC-V momentum continues with the GAP8, a new IoT/AI Application Processor
The RISC-V momentum continues with the the launch of the GAP8, an IoT/AI ultra-low power application processor by GreenWaves, a France-based startup. The chip is designed for lengthy autonomous battery-powered edge/IoT inference operations.
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AMD launches EPYC Embedded 3000 and Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoCs
After covering the server and PC markets, AMD has ventured into the edge-computing and embedded market with their latest Zen microarchitecture with the launch of two low-power embedded microprocessor families.
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