Eight years after the first mobile NPUs, fragmented tooling and vendor lock-in raise a bigger question: are dedicated AI ...

PPA constraints need to be paired with real workloads, but they also need to be flexible to account for future changes.

MIPS, now part of GlobalFoundries, builds on its legacy of high-performance, power-efficient processor cores. One of the latest is the MIPS S8200 neural processing unit (NPU) IP that’s built on a RISC ...

Smartphone AI is moving off the cloud and onto the device itself. With the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite Gen 5 chips in November, Qualcomm has made that shift very clear. The ...

Facing US restrictions on high-end computing products, China is restructuring its AI chip industry by advancing GPU, TPU, and NPU technologies simultaneously. Domestic firms struggle to match Nvidia's ...

Crowds formed around the company's booth at the event, where engineers from Google, Meta, and Amazon came to see RNGD's live demo. For Paik, it was ...

TL;DR: At CES 2026, AMD unveiled the Ryzen AI 400 Series processors featuring integrated XDNA 2 NPUs with up to 60 AI TOPS, 12 Zen 5 cores, and Radeon RDNA 3.5 GPUs. These CPUs deliver enhanced ...

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...

Wingtech Technology Co. Chairwoman Ruby Yang warned that global chip supplies remain at risk unless the Chinese company’s control over Dutch chipmaker Nexperia BV is restored. In an interview with ...

Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, ...

In an industry run by titans, a Singapore AI firm called Megaspeed International Pte. is drawing an unusual amount of attention. In less than three years, the once-obscure spinoff of a Chinese gaming ...

Chip Kelly is on the move again. Northwestern named the veteran coach as its new offensive coordinator, the school announced Tuesday, Dec. 30. The former Oregon and UCLA head coach will lead David ...