Ars Technica

SIMD vs Stream vs Vector processors

When there is talked about modern CPUs and GPUs the terms SIMD processor, Stream processor and Vector processor often pops up. I have been trying to figure out how these terms relate but its unclear ...
Business Wire

SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive, and Dr. Krste ...
The Next Platform

Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?

We had reached out to NEC for comment and had not heard back as yet when this story ran, but we have added the comment to the bottom of this story. The only reason we bring this up at all is that ...
EDN

The Rise of Processor-Centric Design

The 2005 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) chapter discusses a major system design driver – the power efficient SoC (SoC-PE) – and predicts its future evolution. The SoC-PE is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Multi-Core Architecture Optimized For Time-Predictable Neural Network Inference (FZI, KIT)

A new technical paper titled “MultiVic: A Time-Predictable RISC-V Multi-Core Processor Optimized for Neural Network Inference” was published by researchers at FZI Research Center for Information ...