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2026-08-21 · 33 Eintraege
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Intel Eyes a Memory Comeback as AI Rewrites Chip Economics

Intel is considering a return to memory technology decades after abandoning mainstream DRAM and, more recently, selling its NAND business.

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A 39pJ/b 7.3Gbps 1.3mm$^2$ Multi-Subcarrier Massive MU-MIMO-OFDM Detector Exploiting Beamspace Sparsity and Frequency-Domain Correlation in 22FDX

Fabricated 22FDX ASIC achieves 3x area and power reduction for massive MU-MIMO-OFDM detection.

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Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

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AMD EPYC 9005 Series Memory Scaling Performance From 4 To 24 DDR5 RDIMMs

Benchmarks analyze AMD EPYC 9005 memory scaling performance from four to twenty-four DDR5 RDIMMs.

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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast.... Just Got UltraFaster (Cerebras 4th Gen)

Cerebras has a new wafer scale chip and a new box to put it in.

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Why did AMD just buy this REALLY WEIRD chip company?

AMD acquires Taalas, a company building chips with a single AI model wired directly into metal layers.

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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

NVIDIA published a whitepaper on Vera, an 88-core monolithic Arm v9.2 server CPU with 164 MB shared cache and 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth.

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RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about one of the stranger x86 stories I have seen in a while.

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[RFC PATCH v3 01/10] iommupt: Add RISC-V Second-stage (iohgatp) page table support

Patch adds support for RISC-V Second-stage page tables used by the IOMMU iohgatp register with specific bit coverage details.

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Automated Estimation of MBIST Area and Test Time in Heterogeneous Memory IPs via Stacked Ensemble Framework

Study proposes a stacked ensemble framework for early estimation of MBIST area and test time overhead in heterogeneous memory IPs.

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Exact Multistate Reliability and Upgrade Design for Heterogeneous HBM Systems via Threshold-Pruned BAT

Paper proposes an exact multistate reliability framework for HBM systems with arbitrary finite bandwidth states.

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[PATCH v5 1/2] drivers/perf: riscv-iommu: add risc-v iommu pmu driver

New RISC-V IOMMU PMU driver adds filtering support for device and process IDs with runtime counter detection.

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[PATCH v5 0/2] RISC-V IOMMU HPM support

Patch series implements RISC-V IOMMU hardware performance monitor support via an auxiliary device driver.

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Questa One Updated at DAC 2026

Siemens EDA updated Questa One with AI-infused tools for SoC, 3D IC, and chiplet verification at DAC 2026.

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The Fab Is Not the Finish Line

Article states that semiconductor engineering is expanding from individual design tasks toward increasingly complete system analysis using multiphysics simulation.

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Low Power AI Is More Efficient than NVIDIA // The AI Hardware Show S2E10

AI at the edge is already here, running on the devices all around you, no data center required.

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Arm’s Cortex A55

Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.

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KI & Modelle8

A Resource-Efficient CNN-Based EEG Auditory Attention Decoding ASIC

A new resource-efficient ASIC integrates a quantized CNN inference engine for real-time EEG-based auditory attention decoding.

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HYDRA: A Heterogeneous Chiplet DSE Framework for Serving Dynamic Hybrid LLM Workloads

HYDRA framework explores design space for heterogeneous chiplet architectures serving dynamic hybrid LLM workloads.

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients th

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Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Researchers built a prototype self-sustaining AI virus that uses compromised GPU resources to run inference and infect more hosts.

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Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

Consolidation has been one of the paths that many astute observers predicted for the near-future of labs training models.

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Qwen 3.8 27B is an Apache 2 licensed vision-capable LLM with self-reported benchmarks showing a boost from predecessors.

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GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier

Z.ai announced GLM-5.3, a coding model surpassing Kimi K3 and some Claude or GPT variants on benchmarks, soon available via API and Hugging Face.

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)

DeepSeek V4 Pro model weights are now available on Hugging Face with 1.7T parameters and 893 GB size.

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Code, Kernel, Releases8

Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs

Linux 7.3 networking maintainers report being completely overwhelmed by code churn from AI and LLM agent outputs.

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New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3

Linux 7.3 merges AMD low-power core type handling and unifies Intel and AMD CPU core type handling.

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Mojo🔥 is now open source

Mojo programming language compiler and toolchain released under Apache 2 license, shifting from original Python superset goal.

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[PATCH v4 18/21] vfio: enable IOMMU_TYPE1 for RISC-V

This patch enables VFIO support on RISC-V architecture now that the IOMMU driver reports the required cache coherency capability.

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[PATCH v4 16/21] iommu/dma: Enable IOMMU_DMA for 64-bit RISC-V

Patch enables IOMMU_DMA for 64-bit RISC-V now that the driver supports MSI remapping.

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[PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Flush VS-stage TLB before reusing a host CPU

Guest Linux uses mm_cpumask to decide whether an sfence.vma needs to be local or remote.

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[PATCH] RISC-V: errata: Add SiFive MAL-9092 workaround

A RISC-V patch adds a SiFive MAL-9092 errata workaround for memory ordering in hypervisor instructions.

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vllm v0.27.0

vLLM v0.27.0 adds Kimi K3 support, new Qwen and K-EXAONE models, and features like DeepGEMM support and compressed-tensors quantized checkpoints.

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