Chips
Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips | TechCrunch
Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with the promise of solving complex problems beyond classical computers’ reach. The problems in question are wide-ranging, from medicine and cybersecurity to materials science and chemistry. But first, there are very practical…
Smarter Chips Start With Streamlined RTL-To-GDSII Flow
– Advertisement – Can smarter RTL-to-GDSII flows revolutionise chip design? With AI, automation, and better design practices, semiconductor development is getting faster, leaner, and more efficient than ever. The semiconductor industry is continuously driven by the need to deliver higher performance, lower power, and smaller form-factor chips at increasingly rapid turnaround times. As chip designs…
Addressing hardware failures and silent data corruption in AI chips
Meta trained one of its AI models, called Llama 3, in 2024 and published the results in a widely covered paper. During a 54-day period of pre-training, Llama 3 experienced 466 job interruptions, 419 of which were unexpected. Upon further investigation, Meta learned 78% of those hiccups were caused by hardware issues such as GPU…
AMD unveils its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics chips
Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics chips. The graphics cards will be available on March 6, 2025. They will go up against some tough competition in the form of Nvidia’s imminently shipping GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which CEO Jensen Huang unveiled with great fanfare at CES 2025. AMD…
How Amazon is Redefining the AI Hardware Market with its Trainium Chips and Ultraservers
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting technological developments of the current times. It is changing how industries operate, from improving healthcare with more innovative diagnostic tools to personalizing shopping experiences in e-commerce. But what often gets overlooked in the AI debates is the hardware behind these innovations. Powerful, efficient, and scalable hardware…
MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out. Instead of squeezing ever-smaller transistors onto a single surface, the industry is aiming to stack multiple surfaces of transistors and semiconducting…
A Technical Comparison of the RP2350 and RP2040 Chips – News
The launch of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 marks a significant upgrade from its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi Pico. by Blade November 13, 2024 4:30 pm UTC 8 Favorited Favorite 0 Back in August, Raspberry Pi launched the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 with the onboard RP2350 microcontroller. At the same time, SparkFun came out with…