Tag: Movellus
Everyone’s A System Designer With Heterogeneous Integration
The move away from monolithic SoCs to heterogeneous chips and chiplets in a package is accelerating, setting in motion a broad shift in methodologies, collaborations, and design [more…]
Performance & Efficiency Cores For Servers
Systems & Design OPINION Scalable, flexible architectures are coming to server-class processors to better address different market needs. HotChips 2023 was held August 27-29, 2023 at Stanford [more…]
Balancing IR Drop Unpredictability With Post-Silicon Flexibility
The concept of IR drop in silicon chips has always been a crucial aspect of chip design. However, recent technological trends and the emergence of new challenges, [more…]
Battling Over Shrinking Physical Margin In Chips
Smaller process nodes, coupled with a continual quest to add more features into designs, are forcing chipmakers and systems companies to choose which design and manufacturing groups [more…]
Demand For Timing Innovation Grows
The semiconductor industry has begun exploring a range of timing options as demand for increased performance and more features exceeds the ability to design chips using the [more…]
Supercomputing Efficiency Lags Performance Gains
Systems & Design OPINION Fifteen years of data shows the challenge of creating efficient systems with millions of processor cores. In last month’s article, Top 500: Frontier [more…]
Mitigating Voltage Droop
Voltage droop, also known as IR drop, is a phenomenon that occurs when the current in the power delivery network abruptly changes due to workload fluctuations. This [more…]
Top500: Frontier Is Still On Top
Systems & Design OPINION Supercomputer rankings show efficiency and performance gains. The latest versions of the Top500 and Green500 lists were just released on May 22, 2023. [more…]
TSMC Targets N2 Production For 2025
Systems & Design OPINION What’s in the roadmap for ramping new processes and packaging. April ended with TSMC’s financial results for the 1st Quarter of 2023 reported [more…]
Squeezing The Margins
Systems & Design OPINION Monitoring systems and quickly adjusting clock frequencies improves performance for specific applications and operating environments. Back in 2016, we looked at the MediaTek [more…]
How To Build Resilience Into Chips
Disaggregating chips into specialized processors, memories, and architectures is becoming necessary for continued improvements in performance and power, but it’s also contributing to unusual and often unpredictable [more…]
