Live Blog
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical or virtual – NVIDIA’s annual spring keynote is showcase for NVIDIA’s vision for the next 12 to 24 months across all of their segments, from graphics to AI to automotive. Along with a slew of product announcements, the presentation, delivered by CEO Jensen Huang always contains a few surprises. Looking at NVIDIA's sizable product stack, NVIDIA is coming off of the launch of their new Hopper and Ada Lovelace GPU architectures for servers and clients respectively. But there are plenty of spots for individual products that remain to be filled. Meanwhile, NVIDIA expects to release their...
Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Day 3 Live Blog: ACPC and XR
The annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit is in its final day, and the main focal points for discussion are the Windows on Snapdragon-based Always Connected PCs, with updates to...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Live Blog: Day One
Today is the start of Qualcomm's three-day annual Snapdragon Tech Summit. Day one historically is where Qualcomm goes into detail about how the company is performing, and this year...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2019Arm TechCon 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
Kicking off today is Arm's annual technical conference, Arm TechCon. Now in its 15th year, the company is looking to continue their long, successful run in the IP market...
15 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2019The Huawei Mate 30 Launch Event Live Blog (Starts at 8am ET/12:00 UTC)
The busy fall period for smartphone launches continues. Today in Munich, Germany, Huawei is holding their launch event for their Mate 30 family of smartphones, the latest generation of...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Microsoft Hololens 2.0 Silicon
The final presentation of Hot Chips 31 is from Microsoft, who will be lifting the lid of the silicon behind its HoloLens 2.0 product.
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel/Tsinghua Xeon Jintide Security CPU
Doing custom x86 CPUs is nothing new: presenting one at Hot Chips is new. Here we have Tsinghua University giving a presentation on Jintide, its custom solution built upon...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Lakefield and Foveros
One of the interesting developments in packaging technology in recent memory is the 3D stacking of Intel's new Foveros technology. The first chip to use this packaging technology is...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Gen-Z Chipset for Exascale Fabric
One of the key competing interconnects of the future is Gen-Z, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have a Gen-Z chipset to show at Hot Chips today.
5 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 2: Dr. Phillip Wong, VP Research at TSMC (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for the second day is from TSMC, with Dr. Phillip Wong taking the stage to talk about the latest developments in TSMC's research and portfolio. The talk...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel 10nm Spring Hill NNP-I Inference Chip
One of Intel's future 10nm products is the Spring Hill NNP-I 1000 Inference Engine. Today the company is lifting the lid on some of the architecture behind the chip.
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Xilinx Versal AI Engine
Xilinx, the manufacturer of FPGAs, announced its new Versal AI engine last year as a way of moving FPGAs into the AI domain. This talk is set to expand...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: NVIDIA Multi-Chip AI Accelerator at 128 TOPS
NVIDIA announced at a VLSI conference last year that it had designed a test multi-chip solution for DNN computations. The company is explaining the technology today at Hot Chips...
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Tesla Solution for Full Self Driving
The first talk being live blogged at Hot Chips today is from Tesla, who are showing off their compute and redundancy solution for a fully-self driving car. We assume...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Cerebras' 1.2 Trillion Transistor Deep Learning Processor
Some of the big news of today is Cerebras announcing its wafer-scale 1.2 trillion transistor solution for deep learning. The talk today goes into detail about the technology.
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Habana's Approach to AI Scaling
The final talk today at Hot Chips is from Habana, who is discussing its approach to how to scale AI compute.
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Spring Crest NNP-T on 16nm TSMC
Intel is showing us some of the design features of its new ML training product, Spring Crest.
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Huawei Da Vinci Architecture
Huawei has already announced a range of Ascend products based on its in-house machine learning architecture, Da Vinci. Today we get a look inside the architecture.
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Facebook Zion Unified Training Platform
Facebook is presenting details on Zion, its next generation in-memory unified training platform.
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: MLperf Benchmark
MLperf is an up-and-coming benchmark aimed at machine learning, backed by a number of industry leaders in this area.
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 1: Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD Live Blog (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for day one at Hot Chips is from Dr. Lisa Su, AMD of CEO. AMD is riding high after successful Ryzen 3000 and 2nd Gen EPYC Rome...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019