The Development History of Chip Giant ARM

The Development History of Chip Giant ARM

During the China-US trade war, Chinese companies were concentrated in a chokehold in the chip field. This time, Tangxun Information Academy has launched a series of articles analyzing companies in the chip industry for discussion and learning. The British company ARM is a global leader in semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provision. More than 95% of … Read more

RISC-V: What You Need to Know About This Cutting-Edge Technology

RISC-V: What You Need to Know About This Cutting-Edge Technology

RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) conceived by developers at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and is continuously evolving. RISC in RISC-V stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer, which means it is designed to simplify each individual instruction given to the computer. Since RISC-V is an open standard, anyone can … Read more

Differences Between RISC-V+AI and AI+RISC-V

Differences Between RISC-V+AI and AI+RISC-V

Many domestic chip companies have chosen to adapt quickly to market demands by being compatible with the CUDA ecosystem. While this is effective in the short term, in the long run, this “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach remains constrained by human limitations. Other companies choose the path of independent development but face … Read more

How Open-Source RISC-V Architecture Reshapes Global Chip Landscape

Many people believe that the open-source RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture will determine the future of chip design and the development of new technologies like next-generation artificial intelligence. RISC-V is an open standard developed through international cooperation, and participating in such international standards is thought to help companies maintain greater control over their intellectual … Read more

From FPGA to ASIC: The Journey of AI Chip Design

From FPGA to ASIC: The Journey of AI Chip Design

Perhaps some team is designing an embedded inference engine for edge computing, or is furthering automotive vision processing, or perhaps they possess insights in the data center domain that can challenge NVIDIA and Google! However, amidst the broad performance demands, environments, and applications, AI accelerator architectures face unique challenges not only in design but also … Read more

AI Chip Acceleration! FPGA Breakthroughs in AI Computing Power

AI Chip Acceleration! FPGA Breakthroughs in AI Computing Power

High-performance computing chips have become one of the key factors in the competition for the digital economy and artificial intelligence, even determining the outcome of global computing power competition. What is a Computing Power Chip? A computing power chip is a special integrated circuit designed to provide powerful computing capabilities. As the core driving force … Read more

What Are ASICs and FPGAs?

What Are ASICs and FPGAs?

Source: Fresh Date Classroom Original Author: Little Date Jun This article introduces what ASIC is and what FPGA is, as well as the principles of the two. ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) The parallel computing power of GPUs is very strong, but it also has disadvantages, such as high power consumption, large size, and high … Read more

Embracing the Era of Custom Chips with Arm Total Design

Embracing the Era of Custom Chips with Arm Total Design

Arm today announced the launch of “Arm® Total Design” ecosystem, aimed at smoothly delivering custom system-on-chip (SoC) based on Neoverse™ Compute Subsystem (CSS). Arm Total Design brings together leading companies in the industry, including application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design firms, IP suppliers, EDA tool providers, foundries, and firmware developers, to accelerate and simplify the development … Read more

Beginner’s Guide to Chip Design: Create a CPU in Two Weeks

Beginner's Guide to Chip Design: Create a CPU in Two Weeks

Source: Semiconductor Industry Observation Original Author: Editorial Department According to reports, a software engineer named Adam Majmuda recently shared his experience of designing a CPU from scratch in just two weeks with “no prior experience.” During this short period, Adam claims he has grasped the basics of chip architecture, absorbed the details of chip manufacturing, … Read more

Overview of Embedded Development Boards

Overview of Embedded Development Boards

Article Word Count: 1146 Content Value Index: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The embedded system is defined as: application-centered, based on computer technology, with customizable software and hardware, and a dedicated computer system that meets strict requirements for functionality, reliability, cost, size, power consumption, etc. In other words, an embedded system is a dedicated computer system, which is a … Read more