Introduction: Recently, a certain country has imposed a series of restrictions and suppressions on us, such as banning the maintenance of semiconductor equipment and prohibiting the sale of high-end chips. This undoubtedly aims to hinder the innovative development of our AI and high-tech industries. As long as our artificial intelligence is integrated into manufacturing equipment … Read more
This article is compiled by Semiconductor Industry Review (ID: ICVIEW) from semiwiki. The rise of RISC-V in the DPU field creates a rare opportunity to reshape the competitive landscape of the industry. Data centers are often seen as a battleground between CPUs and GPUs. However, behind this highly publicized competition, another quiet revolution is taking … Read more
Aug. Click the blue text to follow us 2025.08 Data centers are typically seen as a battleground between CPUs (x86, ARM, RISC-V) and GPUs (NVIDIA, AMD, custom ASICs). However, behind this intense competition, a quiet revolution is taking place: ARM is quietly replacing Intel and AMD in the data processing unit (DPU) market. DPUs (also … Read more
Chip Type Core Function / Positioning Main Features Representative Products Application Areas CPU (Central Processing Unit) Responsible for complex logical calculations, it is the core of the computer system Highly versatile, capable of handling diverse tasks, coordinating the work of various components Intel Core series, AMD Ryzen series Various general computing scenarios (office work, program … Read more
Since the birth of computers, the famous von Neumann architecture has been adopted.This is an architecture centered around computation and storage, with the CPU serving as the processing unit responsible for performing various arithmetic and logical calculations. The memory (RAM) and hard drive (external storage) are responsible for storing data and interacting with the CPU.Von … Read more
Today, as AI penetrates various industries, the demand for computing power has become “extraordinarily diverse”; however, improving computing efficiency is currently challenging, and the market is fragmented with inconsistent demands. A single foundational model requires secondary development of intelligent agents tailored to specific scenarios, and the complexity and diversity of computing power deployment and scaling … Read more
NVIDIA launched its new generation autonomous driving SoC, Atlan, after a year and a half of silence following the release of Orin in December 2019. The naming convention indicates that NVIDIA continues to use names from the “Aquaman” series. The Orin SoC announced by NVIDIA in 2019 was named after the first ruler of Atlantis. … Read more
BlueField The DPU is developed based on SmartNIC technology after NVIDIA acquired the Israeli network chip company Mellanox. The latest version is theBlueField-3 DPU, which began full production in 2023.The next generationBlueField-4 is expected to be released in 2025. Compared to theBlueField-3 DPU, the AI acceleration will use an ARM processor, while theBlueField-4 DPU will … Read more
Heterogeneous Computing FPGA’s Advantages in Handling Intensive Computations As the demand for computing power continues to grow with machine learning and cloud services, heterogeneous computing has gradually become the mainstream solution for high-performance computing. FPGAs are also stepping into the spotlight, appearing in various data centers. Intensive Computation Specific computational tasks such as matrix operations, … Read more
Source: Hardware-Software Integration Author: Chaobowx 1 What Are Large Chips? 1.1 Classification Based on Operating System Standards Thus, we can have a straightforward standard for large chips: They need to support operating systems and virtualization (virtualization includes different levels such as virtual machines, containers, functions, etc.); They need to support virtualization resource partitioning; They need … Read more