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Microsoft Brings the Sea to Servers With Two-phase Immersion Cooling

Microsoft Brings the Sea to Servers With Two-phase Immersion Cooling

Microsoft has announced that it will be the first cloud provider to implement two-phase liquid immersion cooling in a production environment.


News Apr 12, 2021 by Jake Hertz
What’s Trending in Memory Technology in 2021?

What’s Trending in Memory Technology in 2021?

While fabrication grounds to a halt and the electronics supply chain shutters, chip manufacturers and researchers are still hard at work developing better memory technology for enhanced compute potential.


News Apr 08, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Companies Get Creative to Beat the Heat in Computing Applications

Companies Get Creative to Beat the Heat in Computing Applications

Here's a sweep of a few thermal management techniques across the industry—specifically aimed to keep computing applications cool.


News Apr 03, 2021 by Nicholas St. John
Data Workloads Catch a Break With Samsung’s DDR5 and HKMG Process Technology

Data Workloads Catch a Break With Samsung’s DDR5 and HKMG Process Technology

With mounting data demands, Samsung has unveiled a new DDR5 module with HKMG process technology to accommodate AI, ML, and supercomputing applications.


ARMv9: the Long-awaited High-Performance Computing Architecture

ARMv9: the Long-awaited High-Performance Computing Architecture

ARM Vision 2021 defines the company's roadmap for the next ten years of specialized computing with the ARMv9-A.


News Apr 01, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Google Hires Intel CPU Expert, Doubles Down on SoCs as the “New Motherboard”

Google Hires Intel CPU Expert, Doubles Down on SoCs as the “New Motherboard”

Intel veteran Uri Frank has been hired by Google as its new VP of engineering for server chip design. What does this mean for Google's custom silicon?


News Mar 24, 2021 by Jake Hertz
A Designer’s Take on Raspberry Pi’s First Microcontroller

A Designer’s Take on Raspberry Pi’s First Microcontroller

This year, Raspberry Pi unveiled its first-ever microcontroller. How does this device perform in professional embedded design?


News Mar 16, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar
 What Will It Take to Make 6G a Reality by 2030? A Theoretical Conversation

What Will It Take to Make 6G a Reality by 2030? A Theoretical Conversation

From telepresence holograms to machines as the network's primary users, 6G will be very different from today's network. But does the hardware for this network even exist?


News Mar 15, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
DoD “RAMPs” Microelectronic Growth With Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes Program

DoD “RAMPs” Microelectronic Growth With Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes Program

The DoD is partnering with companies like IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and most recently Synopsys to speed microelectronic innovation within the government.


News Mar 08, 2021 by Luke James
Electronic Nose Uses Solid-state Sensors and Neural Processor to “Sniff Out” COVID-19

Electronic Nose Uses Solid-state Sensors and Neural Processor to “Sniff Out” COVID-19

Combining volatile organic compound (VOC) sensors and an ML chip, the "DiaNose" can pinpoint cancer, kidney failure, and now COVID-19.


News Mar 03, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
Xilinx Doubles Down on Data Center “Composability” With Accessible SmartNIC

Xilinx Doubles Down on Data Center “Composability” With Accessible SmartNIC

A composable architecture accelerates the modern data center. Xilinx's new SN1000 is said to enhance cloud processor flexibility and operate as an edge device.


News Feb 23, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Is Hardware the Key to Advancing Natural Language Processing?

Is Hardware the Key to Advancing Natural Language Processing?

Researchers at MIT have created an algorithm-based architecture called SpAtten that reduces attention computation and memory access in natural language processing (NLP) systems.


A Glimpse Into the Future of Prosthetics: Advanced Sensors, E-Skin, and AI

A Glimpse Into the Future of Prosthetics: Advanced Sensors, E-Skin, and AI

Researchers in electronics-based prosthetics, from e-skin to bionic hands, are working to bring comfortable and cutting-edge technology to future mainstream wearers.


News Feb 10, 2021 by Rushi Patel
Developers Double Down on the Machine Learning Basics Moving Into the New Year

Developers Double Down on the Machine Learning Basics Moving Into the New Year

Machine learning had a powerful impact on 2020 when it came to processing the mass amounts of COVID-19 data. To progress ML in 2021, developers are doubling down on features like on-device AI, low-power architecture, and framework compatibility.


News Jan 28, 2021 by Maya Jeyendran
Startup by Key Apple and Google Chip Designers Catches Qualcomm’s Eye

Startup by Key Apple and Google Chip Designers Catches Qualcomm’s Eye

In a $1.4 billion deal, Qualcomm recently announced that it will acquire NUVIA, an Arm-based startup led by three of Apple and Google’s foremost chip designers.


News Jan 25, 2021 by Luke James
French Researchers Exploit Non-Idealities of Memristors to Bring AI to the Edge

French Researchers Exploit Non-Idealities of Memristors to Bring AI to the Edge

Keeping with the trend to depart from von Neumann architectures, French researchers have overcome non-ideal properties of memristors to bring Bayesian networks to the edge.


News Jan 23, 2021 by Jake Hertz
MIT Devises Custom Hardware Acceleration to Spur Real-Time Robotic Response

MIT Devises Custom Hardware Acceleration to Spur Real-Time Robotic Response

To push real-time robotic response into reality, MIT researchers have turned to their own in-house technique called "robomorphic computing."


News Jan 22, 2021 by Jake Hertz
TinyML Makes Its First Debut on a Bluetooth SoC

TinyML Makes Its First Debut on a Bluetooth SoC

In a collaboration with Edge Impulse, Nordic Semiconductor has announced that TinyML will now be an available feature of select Bluetooth chips—an "industry first" as the press release says.


News Jan 20, 2021 by Jake Hertz
The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act Zeroes In on AI Development

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act Zeroes In on AI Development

The National Defense Authorization Act is a landmark in artificial intelligence legislation, which could advance U.S. leadership in this field and help the country fortify its competitive edge in the chip industry.


News Jan 19, 2021 by Luke James
Researchers Claim Record-Breaking Speeds in New Optical Neuromorphic Chip

Researchers Claim Record-Breaking Speeds in New Optical Neuromorphic Chip

According to the researchers, this new type of optical neuromorphic processor can operate more than 1,000 times faster than any previous type of processor.


News Jan 17, 2021 by Luke James