Imagination Technologies has unveiled its first Catapult family member. Based on the RISC-V architecture, the CPU core targets real-time applications, putting Cortex-R52 in its sights.

In the latest round of MLPerf Training results, Graphcore’s Bow offers a modest improvement and Habana’s Gaudi2 triples performance over its predecessor, vaulting past Nvidia’s A100 on one benchmark.

Micron, and now other leading 3D NAND players such as Samsung, SK hynix, KIOIXA, and Western Digital (WD) have finished the risky product stage and just moved onto the high-volume product stage with a higher yield for SSD application. Dr. Jeongdong Choe compares each.

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New Intel Atom processors have 4 to 24 CPUs and target enterprise networking and SMB storage. They extend the Snow Ridge product line and largely replace the Denverton family.

AlphaICs is sampling a test version of its Gluon edge-inference accelerator chip. Given moderate performance, the company plans changes to improve the production version, with an architectural overhaul planned for the second generation.

MediaTek and Qualcomm announced midlife kickers for their premium-smartphone processors, delivering the Dimensity 9000+ and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, respectively, and showing that not all 4nm processes are the same.

TSMC’s Technology Symposia, EUV Economics. Materials Outlook G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® TSMC’s Technology Symposia: TSMC has hosted its annual technology tour-de-force in recent weeks. As for the live one in Santa Clara, I’m not sure who was more excited to be there: audience members like me

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