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Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major CPUs. This is finally changing at Google, with the announcement that the company has developed its own in-house datacenter CPU, the Axion. Google's Axion processor is based on the Arm Neoverse V2 (Arm v9) platform, which is Arm's current-generation design for high-performance server CPUs, and is already employed in other chips such as NVIDIA's Grace and Amazon's Graviton4. Within Google, Axion is aimed at a wide variety of...
Arm Announces Cortex-A78AE, Mali-G78AE and Mali-C71AE Autonomous System IPs
Functional safety is an area of computing that is becoming ever more important as we see more and more embedded technologies integrated into our daily lives. Arm’s Automotive Enhanced...
14 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/29/2020
Arm Announces Neoverse V1 & N2 Infrastructure CPUs: +50% IPC, SVE Server Cores
Today Arm is announcing its new Neoverse V1 and N2 microarchitectures. The new microarchitectures represent a ever bigger jump than the already vastly successful Neoverse N1 that’s been adopted...
74 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/22/2020
It’s Official: NVIDIA To Acquire Arm For $40 Billion
Following a number of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA this evening announced that it is buying Arm Limited for $40 billion. The cash and stock deal will see NVIDIA buy...
140 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2020
SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5
In what seems to be a major blunder by the SiPearl PR team, a recent visit by a local French politician resulted in the public Twitter posting in what...
28 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/8/2020
Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-bit Real Time Processor
Arm is known for its Cortex range of processors in mobile devices, however the mainstream Cortex-A series of CPUs which are used as the primary processing units of devices...
28 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/3/2020
Marvell Refocuses Thunder Server Platforms Towards Custom Silicon Business
Yesterday during Marvell’s quarterly earnings call, the company had made a surprise announcement that they are planning to restructure their server processor development team towards fully custom solutions, abandoning...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/28/2020
Hot Chips 2020: Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs - Up to 60 Cores Per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021
Today as part of HotChips 2020 we saw Marvell finally reveal some details on the microarchitecture of their new ThunderX3 server CPUs and core microarchitectures. The company had announced...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/17/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Marvell ThunderX3 (10:30am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
6 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Ampere Altra 1P Server Pictured: GIGABYTE’s 2U with 80 Arm N1 Cores, PCIe 4.0 and CCIX
With the news of Apple moving to Arm SoCs replacing Intel in a few key products, and the success of the new Graviton2 SoC in Amazon’s Web Services, the...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/3/2020
Hot Chips 32 (2020) Schedule Announced: Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, Raja Koduri Keynote
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again – the best industry conference I go to every year is Hot Chips. The event has grown over...
65 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/8/2020
HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
It was recently announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, located at Riken in Japan, has scored the #1 position on the TOP500 supercomputer list, as well as #1 positions in...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2020
The Next Phase: Apple Lays Out Plans To Transition Macs from x86 to Apple SoCs
After many months of rumors and speculation, Apple confirmed this morning during their annual WWDC keynote that the company intends to transition away from using x86 processors at the...
241 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020
New #1 Supercomputer: Fugaku in Japan, with A64FX, take Arm to the Top with 415 PetaFLOPs
High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
Arm Announces Ethos-N78 NPU: Bigger And More Efficient
Yesterday Arm released the new Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1 CPUs and the new Mali-G78 GPU. Alongside the new “key” IPs from the company, we also saw the reveal of the newest...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2020
Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence
2019 was a great year for Arm. On the mobile side of things one could say it was business as usual, as the company continued to see successes with...
192 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
Arm Announces The Mali-G78 GPU: Evolution to 24 Cores
Today as part of Arm’s 2020 TechDay announcements, alongside the release of the brand-new Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 CPUs, Arm is also revealing its brand-new Mali-G78 and Mali-G68 GPU...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
Avantek's Arm Workstation: Ampere eMAG 8180 32-core Arm64 Review
Arm desktop systems are quite a rarity. In fact, it’s quite an issue for the general Arm software ecosystem in terms of having appropriate hardware for developers to actually...
38 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/22/2020
Nvidia Announces New Drive Platforms With Orin and Ampere
Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon...
37 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/14/2020
Nvidia Announces Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit for $399
Today Nvidia is expanding its offerings of single-board computers in the Jetson family of developer kits, introducing the new Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit. The Xavier NX actually isn’t new...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/14/2020
Amazon Makes Graviton2 AWS Instances Available
Following the Graviton2's first official announcement back in December, as well as the preview period that has been going on for several months now, Amazon has today publicly launched...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/12/2020
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