Design-Reuse

High-Bandwidth Accelerator Access to Memory: Enabling Optimized Data Transfers with RISC-V

Domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) are becoming increasingly common in system-on-chip (SoC) designs. A DSA provides higher performance per watt by optimizing the ...
AppleInsider

Why Apple uses integrated memory in Apple Silicon — and why it's both good and bad

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers.
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Multi-GPU Shared Memory via Automatic Optimization of Fine-Grained Transfers

Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...
Nikkei Asia

Kioxia unveils flash memory with 33% faster data transfers

TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings has developed NAND flash memory technology with higher storage capacity and 33% faster interface speed, anticipating strong demand from artificial ...
Design-Reuse

Part 3: High-Bandwidth Accelerator Access to Memory: Enabling Optimized Data Transfers with RISC-V

This is the third in a series of blogs about Domain-specific accelerators (DSAs), which are becoming increasingly common in system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Part #1 addressed the challenges associated ...