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Interesting talks from Hot Chips 2018 (eetimes.com)
84 points by JoachimS on Aug 30, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Flexibility, not frequency, is the new mantra

> Compared to its current 16nm FPGAs, the so-called Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) will deliver 20x and 4x performance increases on deep learning and 5G radio processing, respectively, Xilinx claimed. The first chip, called Everest, will tape out this year in a 7nm process.

> The centerpiece of the new architecture is word-based array of tiles made up of VLIW vector processors, each with local memory and interconnect.

> tiles communicate with each other to create data paths that best suit their application.

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333632

So GA144 is going to mainstream finally.




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