Hardware-Oriented Analysis of Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) in DeepSeek-V3 (KU Leuven)


A new technical paper titled "Hardware-Centric Analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention" was published by researchers at KU Leuven. Abstract "Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), introduced in DeepSeek-V2, improves the efficiency of large language models by projecting query, key, and value tensors into a compact latent space. This architectural change reduces the KV-cache size and s... » read more

GDDR6 Drilldown: Applications, Tradeoffs And Specs


Frank Ferro, senior director of product marketing for IP cores at Rambus, drills down on tradeoffs in choosing different DRAM versions, where GDDR6 fits into designs versus other types of DRAM, and how different memories are used in different vertical markets. » read more