Design

2019-07-23 - Sally Ward-Foxton

AI Inference Reaches 8.8 TOPS/W Due to PIM Techniques

Renesas increases accuracy, reduces power by adopting ternary memory structure.

- Gary Hilson

Samsung Targets 5G-Capable Smartphones with LPDDR5

Samsung's LPDDR5 chip anticipates 5G, AI impact on premium smartphones.

2019-07-25 - Rick Merritt

Opinions Differ over the Future of Moore’s Law

New chip architectures will drive semiconductors beyond what some see as a profound decline in Moore's law said CEOs of Arm, Micron and Xilinx.

2019-08-14 - Rick Merritt

Celebrating the Engineer: Bill Thanos

Engineer Bill Thanos helped many find a path to digital music riding the SanDisk Sansa Clip.

2019-08-22 - Rick Merritt

Huawei: Covering all the Bases in AI

Huawei's DaVinci AI accelerators aim to serve everything from wearables to data centers, said an R&D engineer at Hot Chips.

2019-08-30 - Gary Hilson

Tackling the CPU/Memory Bottleneck

Microchip is entering the memory infrastructure market with OMI-based serial memory controller.

2019-09-06 - Gary Hilson

The Hurdles Hindering MRAM Adoption

MRAM's manufacturing challenges are unique relative to other emerging memories.

2019-09-11 - Gary Hilson

Newcomer Hopes to Make Its Mark in Memory Industry

Fadu's SSD and controller with Toshiba NAND optimizes latency, power consumption.

2019-09-25 - Kevin Krewell

No-Shows Blight AI Hardware Summit

A number of companies originally signed on to present or sponsor at AI Hardware Summit pulled out of the show.

2019-09-26 - Alan Patterson

China to Become World’s Largest Buyer of Fab Tools

The market for chipmaking equipment is likely to recover next year on the strength of memory spending and new projects in China, according to industry organization SEMI.