Archive of posts tagged: Accelerators
Hitting an Accelerator Wall: When Specialized Chips Meet the End of Moore’s Law
Background These are exciting and challenging times for computer architects. The looming end of Moore’s law and the breakdown of Dennard scaling force everybody to put on their thinking caps and envision what future processors will look like when transistors...
Why the GPGPU is Less Efficient than the TPU for DNNs
The GPGPU’s massive multithreading is unnecessary for DNNs, and imposes performance, area, and energy overheads. By avoiding such multithreading, the TPU is more efficient.
DNN Accelerator Architecture – SIMD or Systolic?
While the concept of hardware acceleration has been around for a while, DNN accelerators are perhaps the first to see the light of commercial adoption due to the AI/ML wave. Giant software corporations, veteran hardware companies, and a plethora of start-ups have...
Mobile SoCs: The Wild West of Domain Specific Architectures
The Moore’s Law engine that we have come to depend upon is sputtering. It is encouraging architects to innovate in alternative ways to keep the industry moving forward. The most widely accepted approach is using domain specific architectures, and as such, in recent...Subscribe
