The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module came to the public’s attention. [Ken Shirriff]’s ...

But novel layouts aren’t enough to achieve the power reductions and speed increases required for deep learning networks. The industry also is updating the standards for floating-point (FP) arithmetic.

Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point dates back thousands of years, the concept is the same today. In a computer, the same quantity ...

If that’s not your way you might be out of luck. If you have trouble internalizing floating point number representations, the Internet is your friend. [Fabian Sanglard] (author of Game Engine ...

The FPS6 is a fully 32 bit general purpose CPU featuring single precision floating point, designed to meet the needs of the most demanding embedded systems. The FPS6 is a modern processor with a high ...

The GRFPU is an IEEE-754 compliant floating-point unit, supporting both single and double precision operands. The pipelined design combines high throughput with low latency, providing up to ... The ...

Operating under strict semiconductor import restrictions, the company achieved significant performance gains by optimizing ...

Engineers from BitEnergy AI, a firm specializing in AI inference technology, has developed a means of artificial intelligence ...

The chip designer says the Instinct MI325X data center GPU will best Nvidia’s H200 in memory capacity, memory bandwidth and peak theoretical performance for 8-bit floating point and 16-bit ...