Frontier model training has pushed GPUs and AI systems to their absolute limits, making cost, efficiency, power, performance per TCO, and reliability central to the discussion on effective training. The Hopper vs Blackwell comparisons are not as simple as Nvidia would have you believe. In this report, we will start by present the results of […]| SemiAnalysis
The designing a semiconductor chip using plain English descriptions and the assistance of ChatGPT.| Govindhtech
The end of Moore’s Law is looming. Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips. So they’re turning to other approaches to chip design, incorporating technologies like AI into the process. Samsung, for instance, is adding AI to its memory chips to enable processing in memory, thereby saving energy and speeding up machine learning. Speaking of speed, Google’s TPU V4 AI chip has doubled its processing power compared...| IEEE Spectrum
Long time readers will recall that SemiAnalysis covers more than just datacenters and AMD. Today we’re back to semiconductors with a tech-focused roundup of the best from this year’s VLSI conference, the premiere design and integration. That includes the latest in chips manufacturing: fab digital twins, the future of advanced logic transistors and interconnects, DRAM […]| SemiAnalysis
A new technical paper titled “QiMeng: Fully Automated Hardware and Software Design for Processor Chip” was published by researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Abstract “Processor chip design technology serves as a key frontier driving breakthroughs in computer science and related fields. With the rapid advancement of information technology, conventional design paradigms face three major... » read more| Semiconductor Engineering
New hardware capabilities have enabled transformational AI technologies in many industries and applications. One of those industries is hardware design itself, the very discipline that enabled incr…| SIGARCH
The article aims to dissect the layers of the semiconductors industry, focusing on the dominance of TSMC in chip manufacturing and NVIDIA in chip design, to understand the underpinnings of the current landscape and what the future might hold.| TOPBOTS