ICs and SoCs are utilizing a range of processing elements that allow them to optimize current workloads while hedging their bets for the future. What used to be a simple choice between an ASIC, FPGA, ...

What’s the difference between a GPU and a TPU? It’s a wonkish question, to be sure, but one that has a lot of interesting applications to the AI arms race, where companies are trying to be the go-to ...

FPGAs are finding new applications in the age of artificial intelligence, high-speed wireless communications, medical and life science technology, and in complex chip architectures where they can ...

TPUs are Google’s specialized ASICs built exclusively for accelerating tensor-heavy matrix multiplication used in deep learning models. TPUs use vast parallelism and matrix multiply units (MXUs) to ...

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

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Apple's decision to design its own chips has helped it exert more control over the capabilities of the iPhone 17 lineup. It will also help further its AI ambitions. Apple may be one of the leading ...

TL;DR: A well-known leaker has made it clear that AMD has progressed well with ray tracing advancements and brought in a lot of new tech for both the PS6 and next-gen Xbox - but that a 'no compromises ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...