Counting Stars: Open Source Hardware at Chip Companies

kept by foxglove oct 15

Zero ASIC leads the semiconductor industry in open‑source chip design GitHub stars, boasting 3,949 stars—roughly 100× more than its nearest rival and vastly outpacing giants like NVIDIA and Intel.

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 [LWN.net]
Ulrich Drepper’s LWN series introduces programmers to modern memory hardware, explaining DRAM, caches, NUMA, and how hardware limits affect software performance.
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Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins - IEEE Spectrum
The push to run AI models locally is driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades, with new NPUs, unified memory, and Microsoft's AI Foundry.
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Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
Waymo unveiled a custom 5nm ML ASIC delivering over 1,000 TOPS for ultra‑low latency autonomous driving, built on TSMC’s process and backed by 200 million miles of driving data.
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tokens too cheap to meter
The price of running machine‑learning intelligence is falling by orders of magnitude yearly, making AI tokens as cheap as electricity and enabling pervasive local and hosted AI use.
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