AI is changing processor design in fundamental ways, combining customized processing elements for specific AI workloads with more traditional processors for other tasks. But the tradeoffs are ...

Although the AI didn't select the components or board layout, its assistance with routing potentially saved engineers weeks ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its presence felt everywhere these days, from the data centers at the Internet’s core to sensors and handheld devices like smartphones at the Internet’s edge and ...

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...

“Disruptive products cannot be built from legacy chips,” Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji said when he spoke at ITF World in Belgium in May. He was there to receive ...

A team of engineers, AI specialists and chip design researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has designed, built and tested what they are describing as the first AI-based chip design system. The ...

Why this new architecture was the best thing at CES 2026. What is a dataflow architecture? Why Efficient Computer’s Electron E1 processor design is so radical. How the Electron E1 is able to be so ...

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...

Human intelligence and our collective wisdom are already becoming limiting factors in the rise of AI. Indeed, the only smart move at this point seems to be letting AIs design their own future hardware ...