
Hot Chips
Software’s Role in System Design Resurrected at Hot Chips
The software market will be close to three times larger than the hardware market in 2026, and that fact wasn't lost on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the Hot ...Full Article
Groq Designs Chip that Hands Over Controls to Software
Groq has deconstructed the conventional CPU, and designed its chip in which software takes over control of the chip. The Groq Tensor Streaming Processor Architecture follows a growing trend ...Full Article
Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU
Amid the high-performance GPU turf tussle between AMD and Nvidia (and soon, Intel), a new, China-based player is emerging: Biren Technology, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai. At Hot ...Full Article
Tesla Expands Its GPU-Powered AI Supercomputer – Is Dojo Next?
Tesla has revealed that its biggest in-house AI supercomputer – which we wrote about last year – now has a total of 7,360 A100 GPUs, a nearly 28 percent uplift ...Full Article
Esperanto Now Testing Its Fledgling 1,092-Core RISC-V ET-SoC-1 Chips
Back in December, Esperanto Technologies made waves when it announced ET-SoC-1, a new RISC-V-based chip aimed at machine learning that packed nearly 1,100 cores onto a package small enough ...Full Article
IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, ...Full Article