#Chip

Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. It went to the front page of Hacker News and it started a good argument on Lobsters.…

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

A char-level transformer trained from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3. Not inference: the chip runs the full training loop, with backprop written by hand in C. - Carloscodix/qapla

The MMI 5300 was a memory chip from the early 1970s, storing 1024 bits in tiny fuses. 1 Unlike regular RAM chips, this was a PROM ( Progra...

In January, I had the fortune of being a keynote speaker at LCA2013. One of the tchotchkes I received from the conference organizers was a little USB memory stick.

Designing the world's first open source Ethernet switch ASIC. An unmanaged cut-through 3-port 100Mbps switch fabbed on Global Foundries 180 nm.

The impact of the memory chip shortage is going beyond computers and consumer electronics.

A previous version of the project would have baked Gemini's weights into the chip.

The original Z80 packed 8,500 transistors on a 4μm process and typically ran at 2.5 MHz.

IBM unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node.

Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.

Phoenix targets the high-mix, low-volume demand for obsolete chips in critical systems

Apple’s next-generation M6 chip is rumored to launch this fall, here’s which new products are expected to get M6 first.

The Nintendo Switch can run Steam, and that means a lot for the future of Arm gaming.