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Processor and chip architectures

From the physical limits of silicon to AMD Zen and the chiplet revolution, and the NPU versus GPU contest: the engineering of modern chips.

7 parts 27 min reading

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1. 01 HARDWARE✓ READ Silicon's Limit: From Tony Stark's Reactor to 2nm Chips Watching Tony Stark's chest-mounted arc reactor in the movies, or the nano armor that solves huge simulations in seconds with Jarvis, we always get the same feeling: "Can that much raw power really… 4 MIN READ
2. 02 HARDWARE✓ READ The Limits of Silicon: Quantum Tunneling and GAAFET at 2nm One of the biggest illusions of modern technology is the belief that chips can keep shrinking forever. For decades, the billions of transistors inside our smartphones and AI servers… 4 MIN READ
3. 03 HARDWARE✓ READ From Near Bankruptcy to the Top: How AMD Zen Toppled Intel In the early 2010s, AMD's Bulldozer architecture pushed the company to the brink of bankruptcy. Then Zen arrived in 2017 and rewrote the rules of silicon with chiplet design… 3 MIN READ
4. 04 HARDWARE✓ READ The Secret of Supersonic Speed: AMD Zen and AI on Silicon Processor performance is no longer decided by clock speed alone, but by architectural efficiency, IPC and AI accelerators built into the silicon. Here is how AMD's new Zen architecture does it… 4 MIN READ
5. 05 HARDWARE✓ READ A Consumer-Friendly Move: AMD's AM5 Socket Promise to 2029 The PC-building world has lived by a bitter, unchanging rule for years: almost every time you want a new processor, you're forced to throw out your motherboard, sometimes your cooler, and even your… 4 MIN READ
6. 06 ARTIFICIAL_INTEL✓ READ Farewell to the Cloud: AMD Brings AI Straight to Your Desk Every cloud AI request crosses oceans and data centers, raising privacy and latency concerns. With Ryzen AI and the XDNA NPU, AMD runs AI locally on your own silicon… 4 MIN READ
7. 07 HARDWARE✓ READ Battle for the Silicon Throne: Can the NPU Replace the GPU? As AI models have made their way down to our desktops and laptops, a new power struggle has broken out in the world of silicon. Discrete graphics cards, for years the undisputed leaders of AI computation… 4 MIN READ

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