tag: Hot Chips

Chiplets, Faster Interconnects, More Efficiency
By Ed Sperling - 22 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 1

Big chipmakers are turning to architectural improvements such as chiplets, faster throughput both on-chip and off-chip, and concentrating more work per operation or cycle, in order to ramp up processing speeds and efficiency. Taken as a whole, this represents a significant shift in direction for the major chip companies. All of them are wrestling with massive increases in processing demands ... » read more

Finding Security Holes In Hardware
By Ed Sperling - 06 Sep, 2018 - Comments: 0

At least three major security holes in processors were identified by Google's Project Zero over the past year, with more expected to roll out in coming months. Now the question is what to do about them. Since the beginning of the PC era, two requirements for hardware were backward compatibility and improvements in performance with each new version of processors. No one wants to replace their... » read more

Flexible, Energy-Efficient Neural Network Processing At 16nm
By Geoff Tate - 06 Sep, 2018 - Comments: 0

At Hot Chips 30, held in August in Silicon Valley, Harvard University (Paul Whatmough, SK Lee, S Xi, U Gupta, L Pentecost, M Donato, HC Hseuh, Professor Brooks and Professor Gu) made a presentation on “SMIV: A 16nm SoC with Efficient and Flexible DNN Acceleration for Intelligent IOT Devices. ” (Their complete presentation is available now on the Hot Chips website for attendees and will be p... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 24 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Wafer company Soitec and European missile manufacturer MBDA joined together to buy the assets of Dolphin Integration. The IP and EDA tool provider, founded in 1985 in Grenoble, France, has been struggling, recently concluding insolvency proceedings and going into receivership. The new joint venture will absorb Dolphin's 155 employees and be owned 60% by Soitec, 40% by MBDA. The two companies co... » read more

Architects Firmly In Control
By Ed Sperling - 23 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Moore's Law isn't dead, but it certainly isn't what it used to be. While there may be three or four more generations of node shrinks ahead, the power/performance benefits of scaling are falling off. This is evident in new chip architectures that were introduced at this year's Hot Chips conference. Originally started to show off the latest CPUs and co-processors, in past years the focus has b... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
By Jeff Dorsch - 17 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Cybersecurity Check Point Software Technologies reports that facsimile machines (yes, people still use them!) can be subject to hacking through vulnerabilities in their communication protocols. The HP Officejet Pro All-in-One fax printers and other fax machines can be compromised with a hacker only knowing a fax number, according to the company. Check Point Research says a design flaw in Andro... » read more

Focus Shifts To Architectures
By Ed Sperling - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 1

Chipmakers increasingly are relying on architectural and micro-architectural changes as the best hope for improving power and performance across a spectrum of markets, process nodes and price points. While discussion about the death of [getkc id="74" comment="Moore's Law"] predates the 1-micron process node, there is no question that it is getting harder for even the largest chipmakers to st... » read more

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