Nvidia Corp.’s chief scientist told the EDA community Wednesday (July 29) that chip designers need new tools to usher in a new era, moving to “throughput computing” from an era of “denial architecture” that has seen the semiconductor industry squeeze more performance out of single-thread processors thanks to software.
Delivering a keynote address here at the Design Automation Conference Wednesday (July 29), William J. Dally, chief scientist and senior vice president of research at Nvidia and an engineering professor at Stanford University, said computing is entering a world where performance increases are derived from parallelism and efficiency is determined by locality.
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