February 2013 – This years Solid State Circuit conference featured a processor session that was focusing on increasing cache size and more cores at low power. The rise in data size being handled by these units, has driven the systems to explore new architectures that are much more throughput oriented rather than MIPS/GFLOPs oriented. This [...]

 February 20, 2012 – The theme of the microprocessor session at ISSCC was no longer raw speed and performance, rather it was data processing throughput per watt of power. Low power and reduced stages for data processing were the key. The session opened with Intel presenting the 22nm introduction of their new ivybridge processor which [...]

 March 23, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The annual Samsung System LSI group was once again focused on the mobile marketplace. The event featured discussion of the foundry services group and the roadmap for manufacturing technology down through the 14nm/13nm process node. Additional discussions were on the impact of mobile devices on display, memory, [...]