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The importance of PCI Express 4.0 in the data center
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/importance-pci-express-4-0-data-center/Niraj Mathur, VP of high speed interface products at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering that explores the importance of PCI Express 4.0 in the data center. Read our primer: Rambus launched PCI Express 5 » “Modern CPUs rely on the following primary interconnect types: memory interconnects, primarily supported by DDR4 today; high speed […]
5G edge computing in a post-GIGO world
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/5g-edge-computing-in-a-post-gigo-world/There are many who would dispute the notion that we are living in a post-GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) world. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) has created a digital tsunami of valuable data generated by a wide range of devices, systems and IoT endpoints such as vehicles, wearables, smartphones […]
HBM2 continues to ramp
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/hbm2-continues-to-ramp/Samsung ramps volume production of 8GB HBM2 Earlier this month, Samsung confirmed an increase in production volume of its 8-gigabyte (GB) High Bandwidth Memory-2 (HBM2) to meet growing market needs across a wide range of applications including artificial intelligence, HPC (high-performance computing), advanced graphics, network systems and enterprise servers. Image Credit: Samsung According to Samsung, […]
Part 2: DRAM goes cryogenic
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/part-2-dram-goes-cryogenic/In part one of this series, Rambus Chief Scientist Craig Hampel told Semiconductor Engineering’s Ed Sperling that cryogenic DRAM (below minus−180 °C or 93.15 kelvin) offers numerous power and performance advantages. These include increased transistor performance, the elimination of leakage, wires that super conduct, the ability of DRAM to operate as a non-volatile device and […]
Understanding the role of buffer chips in the evolving data center
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/understanding-the-role-of-buffer-chips-in-the-evolving-data-center/Rambus VP of Systems and Solutions Steven Woo recently penned an article for ChipEstimate about the changing data center. According to Woo, the evolution of computing from the PC-centric world of the 1980’s-1990’s to today’s mobile+cloud environment has been a primary driver for change in processors, memory, storage and networks. Clock speeds and the breakdown […]
The evolution of embedded FPGAs
http://www.rambusblog.com/2016/11/08/the-evolution-of-embedded-fpgas/#new_tabBrian Bailey of Semiconductor Engineering observes that systems on chip have been manufactured with numerous processing variants ranging from general-purpose CPUs to DSPs, GPUs and custom processors which are highly optimized for certain tasks. “When none of these options provide the necessary performance or consumes too much power, custom hardware takes over. But there is […]
The evolution of embedded FPGAs
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-evolution-of-embedded-fpgas-2/Brian Bailey of Semiconductor Engineering observes that systems on chip have been manufactured with numerous processing variants ranging from general-purpose CPUs to DSPs, GPUs and custom processors which are highly optimized for certain tasks. “When none of these options provide the necessary performance or consumes too much power, custom hardware takes over. But there is one […]
Looking beyond Dennard Scaling
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/looking-beyond-dennard-scaling-2/Robert H. Dennard co-authored his now-famous paper for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits way back in 1974. Essentially, Dennard and his engineering colleagues observed that as transistors are reduced in size, their power density stays constant. Meaning, power use stays in proportion with area, as both voltage and current scale (downward) with length. […]
Tom’s Hardware highlights DPA countermeasures
http://www.rambusblog.com/2016/10/27/toms-hardware-highlights-dpa-countermeasures/#new_tabEarlier this week, we announced that NVIDIA had licensed Rambus’ Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures to protect its visual computing products against side-channel attacks. As Nathaniel Mott of Tom’s Hardware reports, Rambus’ countermeasures will help protect NVIDIA’s GPUs from side-channel attacks that steal encryption keys by measuring the power consumption of a device.
Tom’s Hardware highlights DPA countermeasures
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/toms-hardware-highlights-dpa-countermeasures-2/Earlier this week, we announced that NVIDIA had licensed Rambus’ Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures to protect its visual computing products against side-channel attacks. As Nathaniel Mott of Tom’s Hardware reports, Rambus’ countermeasures will help protect NVIDIA’s GPUs from side-channel attacks that steal encryption keys by measuring the power consumption of a device. “Attacks like […]
