Tag: chip design
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Hacker News: Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon
Source URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/25/speed-or-security-speculative-execution-in-apple-silicon/ Source: Hacker News Title: Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text delves into advanced CPU processing techniques used in Apple silicon chips, notably focusing on out-of-order execution, load address prediction (LAP), and load value prediction (LVP). It also addresses the…
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Hacker News: AI-designed chips are so weird that ‘humans cannot understand them’
Source URL: https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better Source: Hacker News Title: AI-designed chips are so weird that ‘humans cannot understand them’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses groundbreaking research where AI is utilized to design complex wireless chips, dramatically speeding up the process compared to traditional methods. This innovation not only enhances efficiency…
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The Register: The future of AI is … analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/17/encharge_ai_compute/ Source: The Register Title: The future of AI is … analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice Feedly Summary: EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge Interview AI chip startup EnCharge claims its analog artificial intelligence accelerators could rival desktop GPUs while using just a fraction of…
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Hacker News: Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)
Source URL: https://www.xstore.co.za/stuff/2024/01/kaspersky-finds-hardware-backdoor-in-5-generations-of-apple-silicon/ Source: Hacker News Title: Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security concern regarding a hardware backdoor found in Apple’s silicon. Identified as CVE-2023-38606, this vulnerability reportedly affects five generations of Apple mobile CPUs,…
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Slashdot: OpenAI Set To Finalize First Custom Chip Design This Year
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/162234/openai-set-to-finalize-first-custom-chip-design-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Set To Finalize First Custom Chip Design This Year Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI is actively working on developing its own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia, with the intention of entering mass production by 2026. This move is viewed internally as a…
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The Register: The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/microcode_attack_trump_musk/ Source: The Register Title: The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway Feedly Summary: When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off Opinion All malicious attacks on digital systems have one common aim: taking control. Mostly, that means getting a CPU somewhere to turn traitor, running code that silently…
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The Register: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/los_alamos_lab_to_research/ Source: The Register Title: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Feedly Summary: Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to…
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The Register: Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/amd_q4_fy2024/ Source: The Register Title: Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Feedly Summary: Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD’s chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer’s Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of…