by Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne, Muntaquim Chowdhury on Oct 25, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Emerging Technology, Vision
Over the last decade, flagship processors from Intel and AMD have been eking out only marginal cross-generational single threaded (ST) performance gains. Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count. While throughput...
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by David Brooks on Oct 18, 2018 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Industry, Programmability, Specialization
It isn’t every day that a major company throws in the towel on Moore’s Law, so it is worth noting the announcement by GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) to halt development of the 7nm process node. With this announcement, there are now only three major vendors —...
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by Fred Chong on Oct 9, 2018 | Tags: Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Computing, Quantum-Classical Co-Processing
Quantum and classical computing will work together to solve currently intractable problems.
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by Chris Fletcher and Simha Sethumadhavan on Oct 4, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Hardware, Security
This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security....
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