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Andrei, if you read these threads, it would be interesting to see an article on CHERI/Morello. In particular, an answer to the question: assuming that CHERI is proven to be correct, and made a part of Armv9, is this a key distinction between CISC and RISC? If it is, will this lead to the demise...

Arm vision day. Segars mentions the ubiquity of future Arm IP. From [1 trillion machines, by 2035, on] the periphery to the cloud and data centres, and all points in between, including edge computing. Grisenthwaite mentions: Armv8 has been the leading Arm standard for 10 years. Armv9 to be the...

The top three risks Intel faces seem to be: 1. TSMC have a superior production process. 2. AMD have superior micro-architectures for X86. 3. In the medium term, ARM's architecture may evolve to be an increasing threat to X86. Intel may end up like IBM, with a legacy role, and some...

Some references on ARM architecture, present and future: This is a series of videos on ARMv8 by Grisenthwaite, their chief architect, from 2011: Work began in 2007. This is a description of SVE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06185.pdf Further into the future, there is CHERI...

There is some ARM Mobile road-map information appearing from Devcon 2020. Apparently AArch32 will not be present in 'Makalu', which is due in 2022. Maybe Anandtech can glean more from the event.

That's a pity. They should increase production.

It seems that ARM have a Neoverse N1 SDP- 'segment development platform'. It is a board about 6 or 7 inches square. It looks like an extra large Raspberry Pi. It is available to partners. They give a sales office or you can contact them online...

Will Apple provide SVE in their ARM-based HEDT machines? Reading ARM's website, their targetted use of SVE seems to be HPC and data-centres, and the internet out to the edge, but not beyond. However, they do support running tools such as Forge on home computers, to develop SVE applications on...

I agree. When writing a new application to run on an SVE machine, I would want to experiment on a desktop first, to 'shape' the algorithm's design to take best advantage of SVE. There is no substitute for practice. It can then be ported to the cloud, for further tests. AS for Graviton2, it is...

Here are a couple of additional ARM charts: Up to 192 cores are mentioned, and CCIX linking sockets; I read mention of up to 4 sockets linked. Linus Torvalds is reported as saying that you need ARM-based desktop machines to develop applications for the ARM cloud. Maybe, but this is now...

Thinking about Nvidia buying ARM Ltd, I still cannot understand this. Softbank bought ARM on the basis of pouring capital in, and increasing the labour force in Cambridge. However, they are planning to retain part of ARM, so it is not clear how much is the net benefit to ARM Ltd of being owned...

My guess is that Arm Ltd will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia; it is a British company under Softbank ownership, but is registered at Companies House, Cardiff, UK. Arm Ltd was formerly Advanced Risc Machines, but changed its name to ARM Ltd. In my opinion, you do not buy a company...

FT.COM states that "Nvidia seals $40Billion deal for Softbank's Arm. Britain set to impose strict terms including protection of jobs and maintaining UK headquarters"

You can set up a rudimentary dark-mode viewer with a single line in Mathematica: Import["http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/nvidia-has-approached- softbank-and-is-considering-buying-arm-holdings.2583290/page-2?view= date"] You can then adjust font, face, size and colour of text to taste. You...

ARM have stated explicitly that they expected unit production cost (UPC) for ARM based server SoCs to be in the range $50 -$200. Do you have any explicit statement from AMD or Intel on UPCs for their server SoCs? All that is presented above is a convoluted argument to substantiate some one's...

On initial and ongoing costs, and cloud costs, see: https://www.arm.com/resources/report/forrester-tei-infrastructure ARM also explicitly refer to up to 128 N1 cores in a SoC...

There have been endless arguments over the years in this forum about ARM vs X86. Cost of a server SoC: In the past, ARM estimated $50 -$200 per SoC. This suggests that Graviton2 could easily have a UPC less than $500. Furthermore, the use of ARM Physical IP reduces the cost to Amazon of...

Core-count does matter, when parallelising an algorithm. The Wolfram language allows easy parallelisation using, for example: cP = Compile[{{x}}, x^2, RuntimeAttributes -> {Listable}, Parallelization -> True] This is automatically queued and run across all kernels, one per core, when the...

MAY 03, 2018 02:04 JST: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Arm-s-China-joint-venture-ensures-access-to-vital-technology "Nikkei first reported on Tuesday that the Chinese venture began operations in April and would take over all business for SoftBank Group subsidiary Arm Holdings...

ARM have stated that it is common practice to run the SoC design in emulation, with not only the o/s, but also applications, to check for a good design with the intended workload. In the light of this, it is stretching credulity to think that a SoC designer would design to a benchmark, rather...

Further information on Cavium Thunder X2: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/cavium_thunderx2/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/ The Thunder X2 is available or coming in servers from: Cavium (reference platform.) Gigabyte. HPE. CRAY...

ARM based SoCs should be available in production delivery CRAY HPCs this month. See http://gw4.ac.uk/isambard/ for some background. See also https://www.cray.com/products/computing/xc-series?tab=technology. The top-ten UK Met Office / University HPC applications have been run on the...

"There's plenty of room at the bottom", Feynman.

Thinking of a simple model of what ARM and partners do, compared with Intel, the latter is a producer of CPUs, and the former a producer of SoCs. It is also worth remembering that the network/server-farm model is changing, more to a distributed-data system, with caching of data throughout the...

ARM are saying that the A73 will be available in 28nm, 16/14 and 10nm, the latter being for higher performance applications, and presumably more expensive, at first. Trumpf are building a factory for EUV lamps, due to be finished in 2017. EUV may be retro-fitted to 10nm lines, presumably...

I think I saw a figure of $30+ million for 10nm, to put a SoC into production; I think that this is the cost after tape-out, which I understand to mean production of the first RTL design.

It seems that Artemis, A73, has been promoted since that chart was leaked, as the A72's successor. But what is Aries? - and what is Prometheus? Last year and this, ARM have been recruiting for their server processor design teams. The gestation period is about 7-years to silicon in...

A73 is going into mid-range phones as hexa-core ( 2xA73 + 4xA35 or 4xA53), premium phones as octa-core (4xA73 + 4xA53), tablets, clamshells, DTVs and other consumer devices. Production processes are 28nm, 14/16nm and 10nm. 10 companies are developing A73 SoCs. First premium-smartphones in early...

Intel have signalled repeatedly that they are no longer a PC company; by 2020, I believe that they will have a fraction of the notebook market. Presumably, they have used cash-flow from the PC business to fund development of new generations of micro-code and production process nodes; without...

ARM have sold 4 licences for the Artemis processor; this is a 10nm product, following the A72, and maybe up to 50% more powerful, drawing up to 750 mW; they have also sold 4 POP IP licences for Artemis on 10nm. The announcements were low key in the 2015 Q2, Q3, Q4 results, and the 2015 Analyst...

ARM provided the IP for the original digital mobile phone, and they have led the field ever since; Intel did not respond, until it was too late, and even then, they were half-hearted about it; mobile computing is converting to ARM SoCs, and Android or iOS; the end result is the pricing-pressure...

It seems that Intel are responding to the threat to their business by developing products such as Knights Landing and Xeon-D; they know that they are vulnerable, and may have difficulty in maintaining their 60% profit-margin. They have purchased Altera, someone else's technology, which indicates...

It seems that Intel are responding to the threat to their business by developing products such as Knights Landing and Xeon-D; they know that they are vulnerable, and may have difficulty in maintaining their 60% profit-margin. They have purchased Altera, someone else's technology, which indicates...

My understanding is that many different SoCs will be designed and developed, for many different purposes; it is not a competition to which is the most powerful, in some sense, but to provide varied SoCs that are fit-for-purpose in different applications. At present, ARM based SoCs are being...

"PayPal releasing information demonstrating the benefits of using ARM based servers with a 50% reduction in capex, an 85% reduction in running costs and a 10-fold increase in server density compared to traditional data center equipment" ARM's 2015Q2 results refers...

Google have said that they will replace current servers with ARM or OpenPower servers, if it saves money; they develop and test their software for all three solutions. Furthermore, they can and will change to one supplier for one generation, and then change to another supplier for the next...

Could the major customer be Samsung?

Mellanox provide the TILE-Gx72 Processor, a cache-coherent SoC, based on 72 ARM A53 cores I believe: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=238 This features ARM cores: https://careers-mellanox.icims.com/jobs/3075/software-architect---multicore-processors/job Sandia...

I fully understand that there are two schools of thought on this subject, as represented in the various threads in this forum; but you must realise, as per my first point, that there is research going on, on tackling parallelism; it is very difficult in general to say, in engineering, that...

You note that I said 'solutions' not computer systems; I have worked on systems where there are many radically different technologies available; you choose the one appropriate to your present application; this experience has informed me that it is very difficult to make broad statements in...