Hot Chips 34 – Tesla’s Dojo Microarchitecture
To say Tesla is merely interested in machine learning is an understatement. The electric car maker built an in-house supercomputer named Dojo, optimized for training its machine learning models....
View ArticleHot Chips 34 – Intel’s Meteor Lake Chiplets, Compared to AMD’s
During a presentation at Hot Chips 34, Intel detailed how their upcoming Meteor Lake processors employ chiplets. Like AMD, Intel is seeking to get the modularity and lower costs associated with using...
View ArticleHow Quickly do CPUs Change Clock Speeds?
We often see very high clock frequencies listed for our CPUs. But CPUs don’t run at maximum clock all the time in order to reduce power consumption and heat generation. They also can’t instantly go...
View ArticleHot Chips 34 – AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
It’s no secret that AMD has been slowly but surely executing on their plans to achieve leadership in all domains of computing. On both the server CPU and consumer sides, we have seen them break into...
View ArticleNvidia’s RTX 4090 Launch: A Strong Ray-Tracing Focus
Recently, Nvidia announced their RTX 4000 series at GTC 2022. At a high level, Nvidia took advantage of a process node shrink to evolve their architecture while also scaling it up and clocking it much...
View ArticleChina’s Phytium D2000: Building on A72?
China has been investing heavily into homegrown microprocessors for the past few years. Phytium’s D2000 is one example of a homegrown design, and we’ll be taking a close look at it in this article....
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