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Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown

The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon.

Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs

When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator radically improved the accuracy of networks, thanks to its large memory bandwidth and parallel compute capacity relative to CPUs.

Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neuman

With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing.

Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neuman was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .