Hot Chips 2024 Takeaways

TIRIAS Research principal analysts Jim McGregor and Kevin Krewell discuss critical takeaways from Hot Chips 2024. AI was everywhere, as we have come to expect from most industry events, but a key theme emerged of designing these AI chips with upfront balanced design considerations to optimize chip utilization, remove bottlenecks, and minimize downtime from the beginning as opposed to later in the tape out and testing process.

[CyReVolt]

Interesting that IBM is putting AI in mAInframe. 😮
I wonder what its use cases are. Maybe a Watson return with LLM style functionality.

[mikebruzzone]

AMD disaggregate chip-let I get that economically and financially, on and off serdes saw that with RDNA ll, but how many have noticed Ryzen 2 ccd performance desktop is E5 2600 EP, and Epyc E7 Brickland in package? On Feldman's fabric. Geez, Intel got absolutely no credit for Ryzen disaggregate MCM in package? mb