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WITI introduces Drones as part of STEM program
June 2016 – At the Women In Technology International (WITI) conference held in San Jose, they added a new session to encourage young women and girls to look at realistic application of the STEM programs and get their hands on new technology. A session, sponsored by the Interdrone Conference, brought out middle school girls to…
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Planning for the Next Decade of NVM Programming
September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel and the SNIA NVM programming TWG spoke about the coming changes in non-volatile memory programming models. The emergence of a new class of non-volatile memory will blur the definitions of memory and storage and bring about many changes in computer architectures. The…
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A 128 Gb NAND Memory
February 24, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Jae-woo Im from Samsung related the efforts to make a small die, high performance, low power NAND chip. The design requires a V-NAND process, 3 bits per cell, and a 1-plane architecture to achieve a storage density higher than a HDD. The underlying architecture changed from the previous generation, going…
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Khronos Updates OpenGL and OpenCL SPIR
August 11, 2014, Siggraph—Neil Trevett from Khronos announced the latest releases of the OpenGL, OpenGL ESTM and WebGLTM to provide portable access to graphics and compute capabilities across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, Windows and the Web. These standards are used for 3-D media across numerous mobile and desktop devices. The OpenGL…
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Designing a Game Audio System for HSA
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Laurent Betbeder from Sony outlined the considerations for the latest console. The game audio system addresses the need for clean audio within the games. The consoles are moving towards more PC hardware to take advantage of the greater need for performance and lower costs. The major difference…
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The Road Ahead for Robotics
October 24, 2013, Robo Business, Santa Clara, CA—Henrik Christensen from Georgia Tech highlighted the issues included in the 2013 US National Robotics Roadmap. The roadmap identifies the business drivers and technology applications and barriers to greater adoption. The opportunities for growth in robotics comes from the co-functions possible. Co-workers, co-infrastructure, and co-protectors are all possible….
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NVM Programming Model
September 17, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel talked about the impact of the NVM programming model and persistent memory. Two movements are driving changes into the decades-old basic programming model. Block mode innovations include atomics, access hints, and NVM oriented operations. In addition, the emerging NVM technologies provide much higher…
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Hardware-Software Co-design in Open CL
March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Manju Hegde from AMD described the need for a new hardware-software co-design paradigm in the latest microprocessors. This change is driven by the academic ecosystem that produces 600 thousand programmers a year to feed an industry that is growing from 25 to 30 million people….
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New multi-core processor – Multi-core Expo
May 4, 2011, Multicore Expo, San Jose, CA—We talked to the Adapteva people about their high core-count, floating-point microprocessor. This chip is programmable in C using standard development tools like GCC and eclipse. An experimental test chip with this architecture had one thousand processors on the chip. The basic microprocessor is based on a new…
