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Chiplets And 3D-ICs Add New Electrical And Mechanical Challenges
Reliability is now a system-level concern that includes everything from materials and packaging to testing with backside power.

UCIe’s Major Technical Components Are Now In Place
Version 3.0 of the interconnect standard doubles bandwidth and supports new use cases and enhanced manageability.

Minimum Energy Per Query
How much of the energy consumed in an AI chip is spent doing something useful? This question affects everything from software to system architecture to chip design.

Addressing Critical Tradeoffs In NPU Design
Flexibility, future-proofing, and performance considerations for neural processing units.

Balancing Training, Quantization, And Hardware Integration In NPUs
Evolving challenges and strategies in AI/ML model deployment and hardware optimization have a big impact on NPU architectures.

Sponsor Blogs

Rambus’ Raj Uppala shows why matching memory technology to the inference workload phase is necessary to achieve the lowest cost per served token, in AI Inference Needs A Mix-And-Match Memory Strategy.

Siemens EDA’s Nicolae Tusinschi discusses ways to manage complexity without compromising mathematical rigor, in Formal Verification Fundamentals Remain Non-Negotiable In The New Verification Revolution.

Cadence’s Vinod Khera digs into data center power, cooling, and sustainability, noting that as rack densities rise and cooling architectures diversify, design mistakes are costly, in AI, GPU, And HPC Data Centers: The Infrastructure Behind Modern AI.

Synopsys’ Andrew Appleby explains how to unlock new levels of power and cost efficiency through innovation across process, design, and architecture, in Power Leadership At 2nm: Foundation IP Optimized For Next-Gen Hyperscale SoCs.

Arm’s Bolt Liu delves into non-uniform memory access, and how NUMA-aware optimizations can deliver up to 55% faster text generation, in Scaling Llama.cpp On Neoverse N2: Solving Cross-NUMA Performance Issues.

Quadric’s Steve Roddy looks at why 3B to 30B models are moving to the edge, and what that means for silicon, in The On-Device LLM Revolution.

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Future-Proofing System Design
AI-driven workloads, heterogeneous integration, and increasingly complex security requirements are transforming design priorities.

5 Strategic Decisions For Building A Scalable Compute Platform For Now And The Future
Design AI infrastructure that scales efficiently from cloud to edge while staying adaptable for future innovation.

How Siemens Symphony Pro Enabled AnalogPort To Verify Complex Chip Interfaces
A modular approach for combining specialized chiplets and speeding time to market.

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