Recent #Power Consumption news in the semiconductor industry

3 months ago

➀ Intel has achieved an exciting milestone with the first run of 18A (1.8nm-class) wafers at its Arizona fab;

➁ The milestone involves transferring the new fabrication process to a brand-new facility in Arizona;

➂ Intel plans to mass produce compute chiplets for Panther Lake processors and Xeon 7 processors for datacenters using the 18A technology.

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3 months ago

➀ GigaDevice has launched the GD25NE series, a dual-power supply SPI NOR Flash designed specifically for 1.2V system-on-chip (SoC) applications.

➁ The series supports both 1.8V core voltage and 1.2V I/O interface voltage, offering enhanced performance and reduced power consumption compared to traditional 1.2V flash solutions.

➂ Key features include support for single, dual, quad single transfer rate (STR), and quad double transfer rate (DTR) operations, with up to 133 MHz clock speed in STR mode and 104 MHz in DTR mode.

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3 months ago

➀ This study explores hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) atomristors for their potential in energy-efficient neuromorphic computing;

➁ The researchers demonstrate the large memory window, low leakage current, and minimal power consumption of h-BN atomristors;

➂ The study highlights the potential of h-BN for high-performance applications in neuromorphic computing systems.

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7 months ago
➀ TSMC will start producing 2nm GAA-based wafers in Q4 2025 at Fab 20 in Hsinchu; ➁ The production will be followed by Fab 22 in Kaohsiung in Q1 2026; ➂ N2P production will start in late 2026 without backside power delivery; ➃ N2 and N2P will use TSMC's NanoFlex technology; ➄ N2 is 15% denser than N3E and improves performance by 10% to 15%; ➅ N2E will be followed by N2P and N2X in 2026; ➆ TSMC's planned capacity for 2nm is more than for 3nm; ➇ 2nm wafers are expected to cost $30k+.
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7 months ago
➀ The Ampere AmpereOne A192-32X is reviewed, highlighting its performance, power consumption, and use in platforms like the Supermicro MegaDC ARS-211M-NR; ➁ The chip's importance in the context of the 2024 server CPU market is discussed, comparing it with Intel and AMD offerings; ➂ The cloud-native design and features of the A192-32X are detailed, including its core count, cache architecture, and support for PCIe Gen5 and DDR5.
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8 months ago
➀ AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs experience a 10% frequency drop when executing AVX-512 instructions, unlike Intel's CPUs which typically suffer from more substantial clock speed drops; ➁ AMD's implementation on the Zen 5 architecture is efficient but at the cost of die size; ➂ The mobile parts of AMD use a double-pumped AVX-256 approach to execute AVX-512 instructions, which allows for more cores in the processors.
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