Inference needs memory: How context is becoming AI infrastructure

As enterprise AI becomes more complex, AI architectures can no longer treat context as temporary.
EDN

SoC design: When a network-on-chip meets cache coherency

Many people have heard the term cache coherency without fully understanding the considerations in the context of system-on-chip (SoC) devices, especially those using a network-on-chip (NoC). To ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Redesigning Core and Cache Hierarchy For A General-Purpose Monolithic 3D System

A technical paper titled “RevaMp3D: Architecting the Processor Core and Cache Hierarchy for Systems with Monolithically-Integrated Logic and Memory” was published by researchers at ETH Zürich, KMUTNB, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four-Tier Memory Hierarchy for LLM Reasoning (USC, UW)

A new technical paper, “Not All Thoughts Need HBM: Semantics-Aware Memory Hierarchy for LLM Reasoning,” was published by researchers at USC and University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Reasoning LLMs produce ...
EDN

Implementing DMA on ARM SMP Systems

This Application Note explores the implications associated with performing Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations on an ARM multi-core system such as the ARM11 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore. The target ...
Forbes

SOCAMM2 Is The Memory Standard AI Is Looking For

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. AI infrastructure cannot evolve at the speed of model innovation. Processor design cycles ...
PC World

How does CPU memory cache work?

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...