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Accelerating Chiplet Innovation with a New Partner Ecosystem

The semiconductor industry is currently undergoing a massive shift. As we push the…

Mick Posner
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The Memory Imperative for Next-Generation AI Accelerator SoCs

The tremendous growth in large language model (LLM) size corresponds with an equally…

Subash Peddu
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Scale-Up and Scale-Out IP for Optical Interconnect for Accelerated Computing

Optical connectivity is foundational to modern data centers, enabling high-bandwidth…

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featured , AI data center , AI factory , Data Center architecture
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PhotoFast SSD leverages PCIe x8 to smash past Gbyte/sec SSD transfer-rate barrie…

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Can magic BEANs eventually grow phase-change memory into a commercial reality?

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SandForce’s big score: $25M investment round and quad-controller PCIe x4 SSD from…

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