RISC-V

Analog AI Startup Mythic To Compute And Scale In Flash

David SchorArchitectures, Neural ProcessorsOctober 6, 2019 Tagged 40 nm, AI, analog, eFlash, embedded flash, Mythic, neural processors, RISC-V

A look at the IPU architecture of analog AI startup Mythic which attempts to significantly reduce the power consumption by computing directly in analog in flash.

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DARPA ERI: How Ayar Labs Collaboration With GF Produces A Photonics Chiplet That Can Supercharge Intel FPGAs

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, ERI Summit 2019, FPGAsJuly 20, 2019 Tagged AIB, Ayar Labs, chiplet, DARPA, EMIB, ERI Summit, ERI Summit 2019, FPGA, GlobalFoundries, Photonics, RISC-V

From a DARPA vision and a $15 million seed to a commercialized CMOS silicon photonics product: how Ayar Labs collaboration with GF produces a photonics chiplet that can supercharge Intel FPGAs.

Nvidia Inference Research Chip Scales to Dozens of Chiplets

David SchorArchitectures, Interconnects, Neural Processors, VLSI 2019June 30, 2019 Tagged 16nm, chiplet, ground-referenced signaling, multi-chip package, neural processors, Nvidia, RISC-V

Nvidia recently presented a research chip comprising dozens of chiplets that enables them to scale from milliwatts to hundreds of watts in order to cater to different markets such as edge, mobile, automotive, and data center.

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SiFive Launches 7 Series, Their Highest Performance RISC-V Cores

David SchorArchitectures, Embedded Processors, Mobile ProcessorsNovember 8, 2018 Tagged RISC-V, SiFive

SiFive launches 7 Series, their highest-performance RISC-V cores.

ISSCC 2018: MIT’s low-power hardware crypto RISC-V IoT processor

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Embedded Processors, ISSCC 2018March 17, 2018 Tagged 65nm, crypto engine, DTLS, edge computing, IoT, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, MIT, RISC-V

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.

The RISC-V momentum continues with the GAP8, a new IoT/AI Application Processor

David SchorEmbedded Processors, Neural ProcessorsFebruary 28, 2018 Tagged 55LP, 55nm, AI, Deep Learning, edge computing, GreenWaves, IoT, RISC-V, TSMC

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.

Esperanto exits stealth mode, aims at AI with a 4,096-core 7nm RISC-V monster

David SchorManycore Processors, Neural ProcessorsJanuary 1, 2018 Tagged 7nm, AI, Esperanto, HBM, RISC-V, TSMC

Exiting stealth mode, Esperanto, a small start-up lead by Dave Ditzel has unveiled their high-performance RISC-V cores they have been working on. Their first product will be a 4,096-core manycore processor designed for accelerating AI workloads.