November 10, 2015, ARM Techcon, Santa Clara, CA—Charles Garcia-Tobin from ARM talked about thermal management and energy aware scheduling on Linux. The ability to change power based on workloads has been a part of ARM’s power allocation capabilities for some time. For many mobile devices, the workloads fall into three main categories, short bursts of…
September 10, 2014, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Graphics specialists from Intel presented some possible optimizations for HD and Iris graphics systems. The growing need for higher performance in graphics units requires better use of the available resources. The need for better performance spans the whole creation, consumption, and playing spectrum. Almost one in five Steam…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Shahar Feldman from Microsemi addressed the issues of power and heat in Ethernet networks. The standards for power over Ethernet allow for fairly significant levels of power delivery over the same wires as the data and control lines. At issue is the need for heat and thermal…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA-Praveen Dongara from AMD described the changes and advances in the latest APU called Richland. This processor SoC addresses the needs for variable thermal profiles and performance in a client device. The performance in the CPU and GPU are improved through higher frequencies due to process improvements and…
October 2012 – At the Linley networking and processor event, we had a chance to meet with Micron Technologies and discuss their high performance Networking DRAM solutions. These memories feature a reduced latency for fast random access, based on using a different internal design than from standard DRAM. The turnaround time on a data access…