Design

2019-07-23 - Sally Ward-Foxton

AI Inference Reaches 8.8 TOPS/W Due to PIM Techniques

Renesas has developed a new processor-in-memory (PIM) technology for AI inference acceleration in low power edge devices. A test chip…

- Gary Hilson

Samsung Targets 5G-Capable Smartphones with LPDDR5

Only five months after announcing mass production of its 12-GB LPDDR4X, Samsung’s 12-Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM is out of the…

2019-07-25 - Rick Merritt

Opinions Differ over the Future of Moore’s Law

Chief executives of Arm, Micron, and Xilinx gave diverging views on the outlook for Moore’s Law but shared enthusiasm for…

2019-08-14 - Rick Merritt

Celebrating the Engineer: Bill Thanos

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rummaging through my desk drawer of retired gadgets recently, I came across my SanDisk Sansa Clip.…

2019-08-22 - Rick Merritt

Huawei: Covering all the Bases in AI

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Huawei presented at Hot Chips an AI accelerator it aims to scale from inference on wearables…

2019-08-30 - Gary Hilson

Tackling the CPU/Memory Bottleneck

TORONTO — Microchip chose to enter the memory infrastructure market at the Flash Memory Summit with the introduction its SMC…

2019-09-06 - Gary Hilson

The Hurdles Hindering MRAM Adoption

TORONTO — Of all the perennially emerging memories, MRAM seems best poised to be on the brink of significant, broad…

2019-09-11 - Gary Hilson

Newcomer Hopes to Make Its Mark in Memory Industry

TORONTO — In amongst a stream of announcements at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) in August was a relatively new player…

2019-09-25 - Kevin Krewell

No-Shows Blight AI Hardware Summit

The second AI Hardware Summit held this week here at the Computer History Museum was significantly larger than the inaugural…

2019-09-26 - Alan Patterson

China to Become World’s Largest Buyer of Fab Tools

The market for chipmaking equipment is likely to recover next year, energized by China increasing its spending on production gear…