Applied Micro to sample 16nm finfet 64-bit ARM server chip next year
Applied Micro will sample the first 16nm finfet 64-bit ARM-based server chips in H2 2016. Called X-Gene 3, the chip will have 32 cores, described by Applied Micro as “brawny”, which run at up to 3GHz delivering 4x to 6x the performance of X-Gene 2. “We are finally ready to take the lid off something ...
Cadence tool could emulate 9bn gate chip
The ability to emulate SoCs containing nine billion gates has been delivered by Cadence’s Palladium Z1 emulation system. “Customers said that two billion gates is not sufficient,” says Michal Siwinski, vp of product management at Cadence’s system and verification group. Siwinski concedes that it will be three to four years two before there will be ...
Cadence tool could emulate 9bn gate chip
The ability to emulate SoCs containing nine billion gates has been delivered by Cadence’s Palladium Z1 emulation system. “Customers said that two billion gates is not sufficient,” says Michal Siwinski, vp of product management at Cadence’s system and verification group. Siwinski concedes that it will be three to four years two before there will be ...
PEZY adds 64-bit multi-cores for super-computing
Japanese microprocessor start-up PEZY Computing has introduced a MIPS64-based PEZY-SC2 family of many-core chips for supercomputers and HPC applications that will scale up to 4096 processing nodes. The 64-bit MIPS CPUs will act as the host processors for the system, making PEZY-SC2 the first generation of 64-bit HPC processors from the Japanese company. PEZY is ...
PEZY adds 64-bit multi-cores for super-computing
Japanese microprocessor start-up PEZY Computing has introduced a MIPS64-based PEZY-SC2 family of many-core chips for supercomputers and HPC applications that will scale up to 4096 processing nodes. The 64-bit MIPS CPUs will act as the host processors for the system, making PEZY-SC2 the first generation of 64-bit HPC processors from the Japanese company. PEZY is ...
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments decreased 4.1% in Q3 compared to Q2, reports SEMI. Q3 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,591 million square down from the record amount of 2,702 million square inches shipped in Q2. Q3 2015 shipments were flat when compared to Q3 2014 shipments. “After two consecutive record breaking quarters, quarterly silicon ...
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments decreased 4.1% in Q3 compared to Q2, reports SEMI. Q3 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,591 million square down from the record amount of 2,702 million square inches shipped in Q2. Q3 2015 shipments were flat when compared to Q3 2014 shipments. “After two consecutive record breaking quarters, quarterly silicon ...
Cyber security software company Panaseer has raised $2.25 million through a syndicated seed investment round. The investors include Albion Ventures, Notion Capital, Winton Technology Ventures, C5 Holdings, and Elixirr.Nik Whitfield and David Cameron Panaseer was founded in 2014 by Nik Whitfield and a team of cyber security experts from BAE Systems. It is one of ...
Cyber security software company Panaseer has raised $2.25 million through a syndicated seed investment round. The investors include Albion Ventures, Notion Capital, Winton Technology Ventures, C5 Holdings, and Elixirr.Nik Whitfield and David Cameron Panaseer was founded in 2014 by Nik Whitfield and a team of cyber security experts from BAE Systems. It is one of ...
GloFo launches ASIC design offering
GloFo has used its IBM acquisition to develop an ASIC product offering on its 14nm Finfet 14LPP process at Fab 8 in New York. It claims to balance bandwidth, power, and cost for cloud networking, wireless base station, compute, and storage applications. The FX-14 ASIC offering includes an IP portfolio, featuring leading-edge ARM cores and ARM Artisan ...
