chip architecture

Interdisciplinary Insights on Chip and System Design in the Era of Large Models

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Interdisciplinary Insights on Chip and System Design in the Era of Large Models

Content Summary1. Computational Demands of Large Models: The need for massive parameter storage, dense matrix operations, and frequent memory access drives chip architecture towards high performance and low latency;2. Challenges in Chip Design: The imbalance between chip computing power and bandwidth, with the “memory wall” becoming the biggest bottleneck to development;3. Innovative Chip Architecture Design: … Read more

Can x86 and ARM Maintain Their Dominance? Not Likely! Domestic RISC-V Chips Aim to Capture the Automotive Market!

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Can x86 and ARM Maintain Their Dominance? Not Likely! Domestic RISC-V Chips Aim to Capture the Automotive Market!

The core components of the computers and smartphones we use every day are the chip instruction sets: Intel’s x86 and ARM. The former occupies over 90% of the computer market, while the latter dominates over 95% of the smartphone market.This situation is frustrating, but suddenly, something called RISC-V has emerged, which does not require licensing … Read more

RISC-V to Drive Diversification in the Chip Ecosystem Under AI Influence

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RISC-V to Drive Diversification in the Chip Ecosystem Under AI Influence

Overview of the Overall Market Size of RISC-V Processors RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture based on research from the Parallel Computing Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Since the establishment of the RISC-V Foundation (now renamed RISC-V International) in 2015, it has had 36 founding members; today, the organization has over … Read more

The Rise of Apple’s Chip Empire: The Chip Companies That Were Gradually Acquired

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The Rise of Apple's Chip Empire: The Chip Companies That Were Gradually Acquired

[Image] In Apple’s decade-long journey of developing its own chips, the official release of Mac processors based on the Arm architecture to replace the long-standing Intel x86 architecture marks a historic milestone. Apple has always built its chip empire in two ways: first, through independent research and development, with thousands of employees now in Apple’s … Read more

The Industry Singularity of Intelligent Driving (Part 16) — NPU vs BPU

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The Industry Singularity of Intelligent Driving (Part 16) --- NPU vs BPU

Recently, BYD has entered the final phase of depleting its non-intelligent vehicle inventory, soon to initiate equal rights for intelligent driving. The conference had some highlights, especially Bosch’s speech on intelligent driving for traditional vehicles. Today, let’s briefly analyze the intelligent driving chip architectures of two third-party companies. 1. Black Sesame Intelligence: Self-developed NPU Architecture … Read more

Technical Insights from Silicon Carbide Wafer Manufacturers: A Comprehensive Analysis of Hybrid Bonding

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Technical Insights from Silicon Carbide Wafer Manufacturers: A Comprehensive Analysis of Hybrid Bonding

Introduction to Senhui: Suzhou Senhui Semiconductor, supported by a strong research and technical team, focuses on providing complete process solutions and wafer services for global compound semiconductor customers. The team members have deep experience in the semiconductor industry, with decades of rich capabilities in photolithography, thin film processes, epitaxy, bonding processes, as well as etching, … Read more

RISC-V Chips: A New Chapter in China’s Semiconductor Independence

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RISC-V Chips: A New Chapter in China's Semiconductor Independence

At the end of the 18th century, the roar of Watt’s steam engine shattered the tranquility of hand-spinning wheels, leading to the rapid collapse of the textile guilds that had been monopolized by the nobility. Two centuries later, a similar transformation is unfolding. The open-source DeepSeek has broken through the high training costs of OpenAI’s … Read more

What Surprises Does The Unified Memory-Compute Chip Bring?

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What Surprises Does The Unified Memory-Compute Chip Bring?

Source: Semiconductor Industry Overview Original Author: Feng Ning Traditional chip architectures face severe challenges such as the “memory wall,” “power wall,” and “compute wall.” What are they? What is a unified memory-compute chip? How does it solve these problems? In recent years, with the explosive growth of AI application scenarios, the demand for computational power … Read more

Mainstream Autonomous Driving Chips and Platform Architecture (Part 3) Low-Computing Power Platforms

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Mainstream Autonomous Driving Chips and Platform Architecture (Part 3) Low-Computing Power Platforms

Author / A Bao Editor / A Bao Produced by / A Bao 1990 As mentioned earlier, with each increase in the level of autonomous driving, the required computing power of the chips will increase by dozens of times. The computing power requirement for L2 level autonomous driving is only 2-2.5 TOPS, but for L3 … Read more