Cadence Supercharges Chip Debug And Prototyping With Palladium Z3 And Protium X3 Systems

Cadence Design Systems, launched its latest systems for chip designers for hardware debugging and advanced prototyping, the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3. Though the systems are fundamentally different, each offers significantly increased capacity and higher performance versus its predecessors, to accelerate the development of today’s larger and more complex chips.

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Tenstorrent Scores Big Design Win With Japan’s LSTC To Enable Leading-Edge 2nm AI Accelerator

In an announcement made yesterday, the LSTC, in conjunction with Tenstorrent and Rapidus Corporation, revealed a multi-tiered partnership to license and leverage Tenstorrent’s leading RISC-V technologies and chiplet IP for LTSC’s planned 2nm AI Accelerator for the edge. In addition to the IP licensing part of the agreement, Tenstorrent will also collaborate with LSTC to help co-design the chip…

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Super Arrives For Gamers And Shakes-Up Pricing

If there’s one dial you can turn that will get the attention of PC gamers and content creators when it comes to graphics cards, it’s pricing. And if a major player also happens to deliver more performance and features for less, typically it’s a winning combo. Today, NVIDIA launched the first salvo in its GeForce RTX 40 Super series GPU line-up, with the new GeForce RTX 4070 Super leading the charge, along with a stronger overall value proposition.

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Nvidia Q3 Earnings Explode On Surging Data Center AI And Gaming Demand

At this point, Nvidia is widely regarded as the 800 pound gorilla, when it comes to silicon and software for artificial intelligence. The foundation the company built on its CUDA software, way back in the early days of machine learning, is now paying off with explosive demand for its Hopper GPUs that accelerate inference and training in AI applications. Recommendation engines, natural language processing, and generative AI large language models like ChatGPT all are being accelerated on Nvidia platforms.

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RISC-V Gains Momentum As EDA & AI Chip Design Leader Announces New IP

In recent years, the RISC-V architecture has gained significant traction amongst a wide variety of chipmakers. It may be less than a decade since the first RISC-V workshops were held, but today the open architecture is finding its way into a myriad of chips and technologies industry-wide. It was just a couple of weeks ago when tech giants Google and Qualcomm announced they’d be teaming up on a RISC-V based Snapdragon Wearable Platform for future Wear OS devices, and today – with the RISC-V Summit currently underway in Santa Clara – silicon design, verification and IP leader Synopsys has announced an array of new 32-bit and 64-bit ARC-V Processor IP targeting embedded automotive, storage, and IoT applications.

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Automotive Digitalization Sparks Big Growth For Chips And Design Tools

Many chip players have developed platforms for what’s referred to as the “software-defined vehicle,” where new features and services can be added at time of or after purchase, simply by unlocking them via software or uploading new firmware. However, to understand what’s driving this technology growth trend in the automotive industry, we need to look at the evolution of the modern digital chassis.

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Intel Innovation Event And Meteor Lake Chip Signal A Turnaround Has Begun

At its annual Innovation event in San Jose last week, Intel demonstrated to me that not only are its new IDM 2.0 manufacturing and chip foundry plans beginning to take shape for meaningful impact, but its relentless pursuit of returning to PC chip design dominance is also starting to bear fruit. In addition, it’s now clear to me that the culmination of this two-pronged approach is showing signs of a true turnaround

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SiTime Continues To Disrupt Timing Industry With New High-Precision Epoch Platform

Virtually all electronic devices and systems built today rely on some sort of timing circuit or clock source to derive frequencies and synchronize events, whether they be used for dispatching data in the smallest of microprocessors or across switches in massive networks. For the better part of the last century, quartz technology has been at the foundation of these timing circuits, but building on its silicon innovations over the last decade, the just-announced SiTime Epoch Platform may change that.

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