Architectures

Arm Unveils Next-Gen Armv9 Big Core: Cortex-A710

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 David Schor ARM, ARMv9, Cortex-A, Cortex-A710, Scalable Vector Extension 2 (SVE2)

Arm unveils their newest Armv9 big core, the Cortex-A710.

The Mesh Network For Next-Generation Neoverse Chips

May 22, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor ARM, CMN-600, CMN-700, DDR5, mesh interconnect, neoverse, Neoverse N, Neoverse V, PCIe 5.0

Arm’s CMN-700 is the company’s latest high-performance cache-coherent mesh interconnect for the server market, enabling SoC designs with twice as many cores, as much as half a GiB of cache, dozens of memory controllers, and support dozens of cache-coherent accelerators, chiplets, and processors.

Architectures Graphics Processors Hot Chips 33 Mobile Processors Neural Processors Server Processors Vector Processors

Hot Chips 33 Program: Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Zen 3, Next-Gen Z, Neoverse N2, And Many More

May 13, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor AMD, ARM, Cerebras, Esperanto, Hot Chips, Hot Chips 33, Intel, Nvidia

The IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Chips Program Committee announced the program for the 2021 Hot Chips 33 conference.

Architectures Server Processors

Arm Launches New Neoverse N2 and V1 Server CPUs: 1.4x-1.5x IPC, SVE, and ARMv9

April 27, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor ARM, ARMv9, bfloat16, Neoverse N, Neoverse V, Perseus, Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), Scalable Vector Extension 2 (SVE2), Zeus

Arm launches its next-generation server CPUs – Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 (formerly Perseus and Zeus). Targeting high-performance servers and the HPC market, the new cores bring 1.4-1.5x higher IPC , SVE support, BFloat16, and the ARMv9 architecture.

Architectures Server Processors

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Ice Lake Xeon Scalable

April 6, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor 10nm, AVX-512, Ice Lake, Intel, Sunny Cove, x86, Xeon Gold, Xeon Platinum, Xeon Scalable, Xeon Silver

Intel launches its 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable, formerly Ice Lake. Fabricated on the company’s 10nm process, those server chips go up to 40 Sunny Cove cores and offer a 20% IPC improvement over the prior generation.

Architectures Roadmaps

Arm Launches ARMv9

March 30, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor ARM, ARMv8, ARMv9, Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA), Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), Scalable Vector Extension 2 (SVE2)

Ten years after launching ARMv8, Arm is launching the ARMv9 architecture for the next decade of compute.

Architectures

The x86 Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX) Brings Matrix Operations; To Debut with Sapphire Rapids

June 29, 2020May 23, 2021 David Schor Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX), AI, Intel, matrices, Sapphire Rapids, x86

Intel publishes details of its upcoming Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX), an x86 extension set to debut with Sapphire Rapids that introduces a new matrix register file and accompanying matrix operations.