Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within ...Full Article
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based ...Full Article
At ISC: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days
For technology vendors in HPC and HPC-related markets driven by increased demand for AI, enterprise and exascale solutions, this is the best of times – with better times likely ...Full Article
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto ...Full Article
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct ...Full Article
Infineon Boosts Auto, IoT Portfolios with Cypress Deal
Infineon Technologies’ acquisition of Silicon Valley mainstay Cypress Semiconductor Corp. underscores what increasingly looks like the end of an era for high-flying U.S. chip makers that have seen their ...Full Article
AMD Spotlights HPC Processor, GPU Roadmaps
Advanced Micro Devices continued to play its hot hand at this week’s Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, highlighting its processor roadmap at the cutting-edge 7-nanometer process node that includes ...Full Article
Tech Sector Frets Over U.S. Export Controls
As regulators prepare to tighten U.S. export controls with an eye toward restricting technology transfers to China, industry groups are pushing back, arguing that overly restrictive rules would cost ...Full Article
Net Appliances Emerge to Handle Data Deluge
Network infrastructure has had a hard time keeping up with the data explosion and surging demand for real-time capabilities as everything but the kitchen sink is networked. Incremental progress ...Full Article
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed ...Full Article