Who has the best hands-on skills? On Twitter, I saw a 19-year-old blogger who spent a full 3 years to manually create a CPU with 1200 transistors. This American college student named Sam Zeloof ultimately built a CPU with 1200 transistors! It was achieved using a 10-micron polysilicon gate technology and named Z2. The key … Read more
With the continuous improvement of integrated circuit manufacturing technology and process levels, CPUs are increasingly developing towards high integration, miniaturization, and multifunctionality, leading to a sharp increase in CPU heat. In high-temperature environments, the aging rate, loss rate, and failure rate of chips increase exponentially, affecting the normal operation of CPUs and related devices. Left: … Read more
Semiconductors play a crucial role in computers, mainly reflected in the following aspects:1. Core Component ConstructionCPU: Semiconductors are the key materials for manufacturing CPUs. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of the computer, responsible for executing instructions, processing data, and storing results. Semiconductor materials (such as silicon) are made into core components like … Read more
It’s already 2022, and I hope there are no people who still don’t know what a CPU or GPU is! If you don’t know, don’t worry, today I will quickly introduce you to various PUs from A to Z, so you can join in the conversation next time during technical exchanges! APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) … Read more
To make a simple 16-bit CPU, we first need to clarify what a CPU does. We should understand the composition of a computer (or its alternatives, since not only computers have CPUs; modern electronics are advanced, and many devices such as mobile phones, washing machines, televisions, and even your car are equipped with a CPU). … Read more
In 2019, Alibaba’s Damo Academy launched the first RISC-V processor, the XuanTie C910. To date, this self-developed processor family has nine products, making it the largest processor IP (Intellectual Property) series in the domestic RISC-V field.Author: Qian Yujuan Cover Image: Tuchong Creative Regarded as the
Chapter 1 Basic Knowledge 1.1 Machine Language Machine language is a collection of machine instructions. Machine instructions are commands that a machine can execute correctly. 1.2 The Emergence of Assembly Language The main body of assembly language consists of assembly instructions. The difference between assembly instructions and machine instructions lies in their representation. Assembly instructions … Read more
This article is authorized to be reproduced by the public account “Fresh Date Classroom”, author: Xiaozao Jun. No matter whether you are in the ICT industry, there is a word you must have heard in the past two years, that is DPU. As a newly emerging technological concept, DPU is rising at an astonishing speed, … Read more
👆If you wish to meet often, feel free to star 🌟 and bookmark it~ Source: Content compiled from chipsandcheese, thank you. RISC-V is a relatively young open-source instruction set. So far, it has gained attention in microcontrollers and academic applications. For instance, Nvidia has replaced the Falcon microcontroller in its GPUs with RISC-V based microcontrollers. … Read more
Recently, news about Imagination planning to split and sell stirred the entire electronics industry. Besides feeling helpless about this mobile GPU giant being forced to sell due to “Apple’s abandonment,” there is also regret over the renewed sale of MIPS. As a well-known proponent of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC), MIPS was established even six … Read more