Configurable RISC-V core sidesteps cache misses with 128 fetches
Modern CPU performance hinges on keeping a processor’s pipeline fed so it executes operations on every tick of the clock, typically using abundant multi-level caching. However, a crop of cache-busting...
View ArticleRISC-V 64 bit IP for High Performance
RISC-V as an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has grown quickly in commercial importance and relevance since its release to the open community in 2015, attracting many IP vendors that now provide a...
View ArticleDeeper RISC-V pipeline plows through vector-scalar loops
Many modern processor performance benchmarks rely on as many as three levels of cache staying continuously fed. Yet, new data-intensive applications like multithreaded generative AI and 4K image...
View ArticleRISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces...
Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP. The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector...
View ArticleSemidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All-In-One AI IP to Power...
Semidynamics takes a non-traditional approach to design enablement. Not long ago, the company’s Founder and CEO, Roger Espasa unveiled extreme customization at the RISC-V Summit. That announcement...
View ArticleCEO Interview: Roger Espasa of Semidynamics
Roger Espasa is the CEO and founder of Semidynamics, an IP supplier of two RISC-V cores, Avispado (in-order) and Atrevido (out-of-order) supporting the RISC-V vector extension and Gazzillion(tm)...
View ArticleGazzillion Misses – Making the Memory Wall Irrelevant
Memory Hierarchy and the Memory Wall Computer programs mainly move data around. In the meantime, they do some computations on the data but the bulk of execution time and energy is spent moving data...
View ArticleSemidynamics: A Single-Software-Stack, Configurable and Customizable RISC-V...
Founded with a vision to create transformative, customizable IP solutions, Semidynamics has emerged as a significant player in the AI hardware industry. Initially operating as a design engineering...
View Article2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. I am the Chief Sales Officer and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process. Semidynamics was founded 2016 as a design...
View ArticleSemidynamics adds NoC partner and ONNX for RISC-V AI applications
When Semidynamics added support for int4 and fp8 data types to their RISC-V processors, it clearly indicated their intent to target AI inference with hundreds or perhaps thousands of concurrent threads...
View ArticleVision-Language Models (VLM) – the next big thing in AI?
AI has changed a lot in the last ten years. In 2012, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were the state of the art for computer vision. Then around 2020 vison transformers (ViTs) redefined machine...
View Article