ODSA weighs options for chiplet interconnect
An Open Compute Project group working on multichip integration sees a combination of parallel and serial interfaces being important for interchip communication.
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Microsoft offers free RTL for fast server compression
Not only has Microsoft decided to make a compression algorithm intended for data centers open source, the company the company is providing its own RTL to anyone who wants to implement it in silicon.
PCI may provide key to OCP chiplet standard
The ODSA Workgroup formed by Netronome and others is looking to adopt the PIPE standard for interconnecting chiplets as it starts work on a proof-of-concept module.
MACOM to use GlobalFoundries 300mm SOI for PICs
MACOM has decided to use GlobalFoundries' 90nm SOI process on 300mm wafers to build higher-integration optical-switching devices for servers.
Achronix builds machine learning IP into eFPGA
Achronix has incorporated direct support for machine learning into the latest version of its eFPGA architecture.
56G Ethernet IP to enable leaf-spine hyperscale data centres
Faster PHYs needed to shift vast amounts of data around giant data centres.
ARM deploys data-center tech to study verification patterns
ARM is using technologies such as Hadoop and Spark to provide insight into how well its verification processes are working.
Serdes deal to push copper server interconnect to 100Gbit/s
A licensing deal with GlobalFoundries has provided chipmaker Aquantia with the ability to speed up development of a 100Gbit/s link technology for data centers.
Achronix moves into embedded FPGA
Achronix has decided to offer the FPGA technology it has developed as a set of embeddable cores.
Cadence packages VIP for ten protocols
Cadence Design Systems has released a set of ten verification IP packages intended to support a new crop of standard protocols.