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Always-On, Ultra-Low-Power Design Gains Traction

Powering down most of a system is good for conserving batteries, but leaving some circuits on adds some complex challenges for design teams.

Architecting Faster Computers

Moving forward will require a fundamental reconsideration of logic.

Increasing Performance With Data Acceleration

In-line acceleration boosts performance for radio access networks.

Clocks Getting Skewed Up

The clock network is complex, critical to performance, but often it's treated as an afterthought. Getting this wrong can ruin your chip.

Improving Memory Efficiency And Performance

CXL and OMI will facilitate memory sharing and pooling, but how well and where they work best remains debatable.

CXL and OMI: Competing or Complementary?

It depends on whom you ask, but there are advantages to both.

Power Now First-Order Concern In More Markets

No longer a separate set of requirements, designers are prioritizing both power and performance in markets where performance has been the main goal.

Why Comparing Processors Is So Difficult

Some designs focus on power, while others focus on sustainable performance, cost, or flexibility. But choosing the best option for an application b...

Robots Become More Useful In Factories

Automation includes increasing number and variety of bots as chips become more capable; cost of entry drops.

Improving PPA In Complex Designs With AI

Research shows significant improvement in time to market and optimization of key metrics.

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Round Tables

Performance and Power Tradeoffs At 7/5nm

Experts at the Table: Security, reliability, and margin are all in play at leading-edge nodes and in advanced packages.

Custom Designs, Custom Problems

Experts at the Table: Power and performance issues at the most advanced nodes.

Power And Performance Optimization At 7/5/3nm

Experts at the Table: What happens when AI chips max out at reticle size?

Addressing Pain Points In Chip Design

Partitioning, debug and first-pass working silicon lead the list of problems that need to be solved.

Why DRAM Won’t Go Away

New materials, new architectures and higher density have limited what can be done with DRAM, but it's still king (Experts At The Table Part 3)

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Multimedia

The Ethernet Evolution

Why this technology has continue to thrive in data centers.

Always-On DSPs

The best ways to deploy digital signal processors and why multiple DSPs are better than one.

Low-Power Always-On Circuits

What happens when things never shut down?

Problems In The Power Grid

How the electrification of everything will affect power generation, storage and availability.

Improving Power & Performance Beyond Scaling

How to reduce total cost of ownership in data centers.

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Apple's new chip is just the tip of a technological revolution.
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