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The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...

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Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

The Case for Hardware-Assisted Verification in Complex SoCs

This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...

Is Nvidia Competing With Its GPU Cloud Partners?

Nvidia recently announced two new cloud initiatives. First, the company announced DGX Cloud Lepton, designed to connect artificial intelligence developers with Nvidia’s wide network of cloud providers. Second, Nvidia announced a new cloud service, the Industrial AI...

Tenstorrent Scores Big Win At LG

The companies will collaborate to build RISC-V, AI, and Video Codec chiplets for future automotive and TV products. We’ve been following the Toronto-based startup Tenstorrent for the last several years, where CEO Jim Keller is now steering multiple advanced designs...

Is The New AMD MI300X Better Than The NVIDIA H100?

AMD disclosed a few more details on the MI300 GPU, due later this year, with support for 192GB of memory on the MI300X. Here’s what we know. In today’s world of ChatGPT, everyone keeps asking if the NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs are the only platforms that can deliver the...

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based designs and domain-specific solutions. And RISC-V, the open-source...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...