Semiconductor Engineering

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The central processing unit (CPU) is either a dedicated integrated circuit (IC) or intellectual property (IP) core on an IC that processes logic and math. A CPU can handle high-level provisioning of ...
Electronic Design

Power-Efficient Processor Leverages Novel Dataflow Architecture

What makes Efficient Computer’s Electron E1 stand out is the programmable nature of the system’s dataflow. The chip has a RISC-V processor (RV32iac+zmmul), but it’s there to manage the computational ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

A tensor processing unit (TPU)—sometimes referred to as a TensorFlow processing unit—is a special-purpose accelerator for machine learning. It is processing IC designed by Google to handled neural ...
CNX Software

Linux 6.17 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Here are some of the highlights of the Linux 6.17 release: Specific support for single-core processors has been removed, and Linux 6.17 and greater will ship with SMP support, even on single-core ...

Introducing CHPX: The Case For AI Semiconductors And Quantum Computing

The semiconductor industry is facing a structural transformation, as AI reshapes computing needs. AI is poised to drive most of the industry’s growth over the next two decades.