Congratulations to the #MLPerf community (including David Kanter) who helped create the v0.5 machine learning training benchmarks. Results are public, with great work by Google, Intel, and Nvidia.

We are upgrading our VM today, so expect a little downtime while we reboot!

Speaking with David Kanter about how RDNA is actually different from GCN with the AMD Navi GPUs, including an explanation of waves, warps, and cache: youtube.com/watch?v=V7wwDn…

The theme of #SC19 was combining machine learning with HPC. We heard about new technologies from Nvidia, Graphcore, and Cerebras Systems and the challenges of benchmarking HPC systems for machine learning. realworldtech.com/sc19-hpc-meets…

Power delivery is one of the most significant challenges in modern processors. In this article we discuss system power delivery goals and techniques, the impact on frequency, #Intel FIVR, decoupling capacitors and other topics realworldtech.com/power-delivery/

Vendors brag about the transistor count of their design. However, transistor count, density varies based on the design. The result is that transistor count, density are approximate metrics and focusing on those numbers loses sight of the bigger picture realworldtech.com/transistor-cou…

Happy anniversary to the whole RWT community, which is now 24 years old! We are thrilled to still have lively discussions and occasional articles and hope to continue for many years to come!

Happy new year everyone! We are #1 on HackerNews again...apologies if the site's a little slow. Apparently folks are really interested in ECC for client systems :) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256223…

The Hotchips 2021 program is live! Check it out at hotchips.org/advance-progra… Congrats to all the amazing presenters! We can't wait to hear the great talks. See you Aug 22-24, don't forget to register at hotchipssymposium.regfox.com/hot-chips-33-o…

Happy 25th birthday to me! It’s been a wonderful quarter century of articles and forum discussions…here’s to 25 more!!!

If there are any RWT readers attending #hotchips2021 we have a slack channel for real time chat - drop in to h-rwt and chat with .David Kanter and others!

Happy New Year! May 2022 be even better than 2021.

Intel just released a fantastic history of the transistor, tracing the evolution of this marvelous technology. The dimensions are accurate too :) youtube.com/watch?v=Z7M8et…

New article coming soon…stay tuned :)

Intel 4 achieves 20% better performance, scales logic density 2X, while reducing costs through design co-optimization, new materials, and judicious use of EUV lithography. It will ramp with the Meteor Lake compute tile to high volume manufacturing in 2023 realworldtech.com/intel-4

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Ashlee is a friend and an amazing writer! You won’t be disappointed with his book :)