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Kicking off this morning is Intel's annual technology conference, Innovation. The second year of the revived show once again has Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger leading things off, with what's scheduled to be a 90 minute keynote. Intel has four major themes for this year's show: Accelerating the AI Era Transformative Innovation for the Future of Computing Hype vs. Reality: Bringing Modern Applications to Market Faster (Edge to Cloud) Building and Scaling Industry-Leading Next-Generation Systems and Platforms Expect to see AI everywhere - both in regards to silicon and promotional efforts. AI is the golden goose of the tech industry at the moment, and everyone is either making massive profits off of AI harfdware (NVIDIA), or wants to be (more or less everyone else, including Intel). Meanwhile, on the product front, this...

Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Next Gen Intel Xeon, Ice Lake-SP (9:30am PT)

Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...

26 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020

The Apple WWDC 2020 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)

While COVID may have put a crimp on the tech industry, for Apple the show must still go on. Join us at 10am Pacific/17:00 UTC for our live blog...

78 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020

Intel CES 2020 Keynote Live Blog: Ice, Comets, and Tigers To Come

We're here at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for Intel's CES 2020 keynote. Intel always makes their CES presentations exciting affairs, and we're expecting much the same this year...

26 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2020

AMD Keynote Presentation Press Event at CES 2020: The AnandTech Live Blog

We're here ready to Live Blog the annual CES keynote from AMD. We expect to see Lisa Su, Frank Azor, and others take to the stage to discuss what's...

20 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2020

Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Day 3 Live Blog: ACPC and XR

The annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit is in its final day, and the main focal points for discussion are the Windows on Snapdragon-based Always Connected PCs, with updates to...

21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019

Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Live Blog: Day One

Today is the start of Qualcomm's three-day annual Snapdragon Tech Summit. Day one historically is where Qualcomm goes into detail about how the company is performing, and this year...

20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2019

Arm TechCon 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)

Kicking off today is Arm's annual technical conference, Arm TechCon. Now in its 15th year, the company is looking to continue their long, successful run in the IP market...

15 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2019

The Huawei Mate 30 Launch Event Live Blog (Starts at 8am ET/12:00 UTC)

The busy fall period for smartphone launches continues. Today in Munich, Germany, Huawei is holding their launch event for their Mate 30 family of smartphones, the latest generation of...

15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/19/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Microsoft Hololens 2.0 Silicon

The final presentation of Hot Chips 31 is from Microsoft, who will be lifting the lid of the silicon behind its HoloLens 2.0 product.

9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel/Tsinghua Xeon Jintide Security CPU

Doing custom x86 CPUs is nothing new: presenting one at Hot Chips is new. Here we have Tsinghua University giving a presentation on Jintide, its custom solution built upon...

10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Lakefield and Foveros

One of the interesting developments in packaging technology in recent memory is the 3D stacking of Intel's new Foveros technology. The first chip to use this packaging technology is...

31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Gen-Z Chipset for Exascale Fabric

One of the key competing interconnects of the future is Gen-Z, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have a Gen-Z chipset to show at Hot Chips today.

5 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 2: Dr. Phillip Wong, VP Research at TSMC (1:45pm PT)

The keynote for the second day is from TSMC, with Dr. Phillip Wong taking the stage to talk about the latest developments in TSMC's research and portfolio. The talk...

12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel 10nm Spring Hill NNP-I Inference Chip

One of Intel's future 10nm products is the Spring Hill NNP-I 1000 Inference Engine. Today the company is lifting the lid on some of the architecture behind the chip.

3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Xilinx Versal AI Engine

Xilinx, the manufacturer of FPGAs, announced its new Versal AI engine last year as a way of moving FPGAs into the AI domain. This talk is set to expand...

19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: NVIDIA Multi-Chip AI Accelerator at 128 TOPS

NVIDIA announced at a VLSI conference last year that it had designed a test multi-chip solution for DNN computations. The company is explaining the technology today at Hot Chips...

2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Tesla Solution for Full Self Driving

The first talk being live blogged at Hot Chips today is from Tesla, who are showing off their compute and redundancy solution for a fully-self driving car. We assume...

4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Cerebras' 1.2 Trillion Transistor Deep Learning Processor

Some of the big news of today is Cerebras announcing its wafer-scale 1.2 trillion transistor solution for deep learning. The talk today goes into detail about the technology.

28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Habana's Approach to AI Scaling

The final talk today at Hot Chips is from Habana, who is discussing its approach to how to scale AI compute.

19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019

Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Spring Crest NNP-T on 16nm TSMC

Intel is showing us some of the design features of its new ML training product, Spring Crest.

4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019

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