For AMD CEO Lisa Su, this year will be a period of some professional recognition as she is not only elected Chair of the Global Semiconductor Alliance, but also regularly gets the opportunity to speak at the opening of various industry events. Suffice it to recall Computex 2019 - it was the head of AMD who had the honor to make a speech at the opening of this major industry exhibition. The gaming event E3 2019, which will be held in the first half of June, will not be left without attention, there is every reason to believe that during the thematic broadcast, the head of AMD and her colleagues will for the first time openly talk about Navi gaming 7nm graphics solutions, the announcement of which is scheduled for third quarter.
Summer industry events, to which Lisa Su is invited, will not be limited to this list. Agenda just released for the August conference mentions the head of AMD at the opening of the event. From an excerpt from the opening speech, which is available on the Hot Chips website, it becomes clear that Lisa Su will speak about the development of the computer industry at a time when the effect of the so-called "Moore's law" has slowed down. New approaches in system architecture, semiconductor design and software development will be discussed. The goal of the new techniques is to increase the efficiency of using the hardware resources of future computing and graphics products.
By the way, on August 21 this year, AMD representatives at Hot Chips will also talk about Navi GPUs. All this suggests that by that time they will receive the status of serial products. As recently became known, in the third quarter, representatives of this architecture will be offered both in the gaming and server segments. Most likely, in August, AMD will talk about Navi in the latter context. In addition, Zen 2 architecture CPUs will be discussed.
Intel will return to the topic of spatial layout again Foveros
Representatives of Intel Corporation will be presenting only in the working part of the Hot Chips conference, and the most intriguing topic remains the accelerators of learning systems Spring Hill, which will be used in the server segment to build systems capable of doing inference. In this area, Intel actively uses the developments of the Nervana company it acquired, but core products usually appear under the symbols ending in "Crest" (Lake Crest, Spring Crest and Knights Crest). The Spring Hill designation may speak of a hybrid architecture that combines Intel's own Xeon Phi developments and Nervana heritage.
By the way, Intel representatives will also talk about Spring Crest accelerators on Hot Chips. They will also give a presentation on Intel Optane SSDs. One of Intel's reports will be devoted to the creation of hybrid processors with heterogeneous cores using spatial layout. For sure, Intel will return to the Foveros concept, which will be used when releasing 10nm Lakefield processors with a high degree of integration. However, we may hear about future products with a spatial layout of this type.
TSMC will share plans for the development of lithography for years to come
Lisa Su won't be the only executive to have the honor of speaking at the opening of the Hot Chips conference. A similar right will be given to Philip Wong, TSMC vice president of R&D. He will talk about the company's views on the further development of the industry, and will try to look beyond the limits of lithographic technologies with standards of less than one nanometer. From the abstract to his speech, we learn that after the 3nm process technology, TSMC expects to conquer 2nm and 1,4nm process technologies.
Other conference participants also revealed the topics of their reports. IBM will talk about the next generation of POWER processors, Microsoft will talk about the Hololens 2.0 hardware, and NVIDIA will take part in a talk on a multi-chip neural network accelerator. Of course, the latter company will not hold back from talking about ray tracing and the architecture of Turing GPUs.
Source: 3dnews.ru