David Schor 
This year, the 68th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) was back in full force with nearly 1,500 engineerings (in-person) from around the world making their yearly voyage back to downtown San Francisco to discuss the latest development in … Read more
Last year Intel announced the development of the Horse Creek Platform, a partnership with SiFive for the development of a new high-performance RISC-V development system as part of both the company’s Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and their effort to catalyze … Read more
Today arm is introducing its new next-generation flagship core, the Cortex-X3. The Cortex-X3 CPU is a third-generation core as part of the Cortex-X custom core program designed to bring higher performance through slightly different PPA tradeoffs versus the mainstream performance … Read more
Despite being nearly 47 years old, the MOS Tech 6502 – or its low-power direct equivalents – is still being manufactured and is widely used in consumer products such as toys, automotive, and appliances as well as in embedded and … Read more
In 2018, Alibaba founded T-Head, a fabless semiconductor subsidiary with the intention of designing custom in-house ASICs. T-Head has since introduced a number of custom chips including the Hanguang 800 neural processor and various RISC-V processors. At the company’s Apsara … Read more
Last week Computex Taipei 2021 was held virtually. While the event was largely a hit or miss among the chip vendors, one of the more interesting announcements that were delivered at the event was AMD’s 3D V-Cache – a 3D … Read more