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Condor Currents episodes

  • RISC-V Mentorship Taught Me the RISC-V ISA Is Far More Than a Reference Manual
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **RISC-V Mentorship Taught Me the RISC-V ISA Is Far More Than a Reference Manual** (riscv_news)
    - **RISC-V set to announce 25% market penetration — open-standard ISA is ahead of schedule, securing fast-growing silicon footprint - Tom's Hardware** (google_riscv)
    - **Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs - The Tribune** (google_riscv)
    - **CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Market - Market Growth Reports** (google_arch)
    - **Probabilistic Memory Architecture That Bridges The Gap Between RNG Sampling and Memory Access (Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Villanova)** (semiengineering)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    15 min
  • 3DLS: A 3D Logic-Stacked Architecture for Disaggregated LLM Serving
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **3DLS: A 3D Logic-Stacked Architecture for Disaggregated LLM Serving** (arXiv)
    - **KernelSight-LM: A Kernel-Level LLM Inference Simulator** (arXiv)
    - **Checking In On The ISA Wars And Its Impact On CPU Architectures - Hackaday** (google_arch)
    - **Support RAJA and Scientific Applications on RVV Architectures** (riscv_news)
    - **Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs - PR Newswire** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    0 min
  • High-Performance NTT Accelerators for PQC leveraging Unified Redundant Arithmetic and Fine-Tuned Microarchitecture
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **High-Performance NTT Accelerators for PQC leveraging Unified Redundant Arithmetic and Fine-Tuned Microarchitecture** (arXiv)
    - **KernelSight-LM: A Kernel-Level LLM Inference Simulator** (arXiv)
    - **SpacemiT K3 “16-core” RISC-V SoC system information and (early) benchmarks - CNX Software** (google_riscv)
    - **Sipeed launches K3 Pico-ITX and CoM260 boards with SpacemiT RISC-V SoC - LinuxGizmos.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Codasip Shifts Focus to Cyber-Resilient SoCs, Divests Low-End RISC-V Business - Embedded Computing Design** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    17 min
  • TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving** (arXiv)
    - **Croc: Training the Next Generation Chip Designers on Domain-Specific End-to-End Open Source Silicon** (arXiv)
    - **RISC-V Soft Processor System on DE10-Lite - Hackster.io** (google_riscv)
    - **Now you can put a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processor in a Framework Laptop 13 - Liliputing** (google_riscv)
    - **Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    17 min
  • HBM Is Not All You Need: Efficient Disaggregated LLM Serving across Memory-heterogeneous Accelerators
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **HBM Is Not All You Need: Efficient Disaggregated LLM Serving across Memory-heterogeneous Accelerators** (arXiv)
    - **TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving** (arXiv)
    - **Zhihe A210 octa-core RISC-V SoC with 12 TOPS NPU powers SoM-based development board - CNX Software** (google_riscv)
    - **Using a Performance Model to Implement a Superscalar CVA6** (riscv_news)
    - **Open-Source RISC-V Platform Trains Chip Designers From RTL To Silicon (ETH Z., lowRISC, U of Bologna)** (semiengineering)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    21 min
  • CrossPool: Efficient Multi-LLM Serving for Cold MoE Models through KV-Cache and Weight Disaggregation
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **CrossPool: Efficient Multi-LLM Serving for Cold MoE Models through KV-Cache and Weight Disaggregation** (arXiv)
    - **Phase Matters: Characterizing Heterogeneous Vision-Language Inference on a Mobile SoC** (arXiv)
    - **AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
    - **Milk-V Jupiter2 is mini PC with a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processor - Liliputing** (google_riscv)
    - **SpacemiT to launch server-class RISC-V processor following capital injection - South China Morning Post** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    16 min
  • SOLAR: AI-Powered Speed-of-Light Performance Analysis
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **SOLAR: AI-Powered Speed-of-Light Performance Analysis** (arXiv)
    - **Accelerating Disaggregated RL for Visual Generative LLMs with Diffusion-Based Parallelism and Trainer-Assisted Generation** (arXiv)
    - **Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
    - **SiFive Upgrades P500 RISC-V IP Cores - embedded.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Alibaba Enters The Semiconductor Market, Unveils Its First RISC-V Processor - Analytics India Magazine** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    15 min
  • The Serialized Bridge: Understanding and Recovering LLM Serving Performance under Blackwell GPU Confidential Computing
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **The Serialized Bridge: Understanding and Recovering LLM Serving Performance under Blackwell GPU Confidential Computing** (arXiv)
    - **Learning Filters with Certainty** (arXiv)
    - **India Launches DHRUV64, Its First 1 GHz, 64-bit Dual-Core RISC-V CPU - TechPowerUp** (google_riscv)
    - **Prompt to tape out: Autonomous AI agent builds 1.5 GHz RISC-V CPU - Adafruit** (google_riscv)
    - **The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    17 min
  • CVA6-RT: an Open-Source Time-Predictable RV64 Processor for Mixed-Criticality Systems
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **CVA6-RT: an Open-Source Time-Predictable RV64 Processor for Mixed-Criticality Systems** (arXiv)
    - **Residual GPU Cache State on Apple M4 Pro** (arXiv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - Business Wire** (google_riscv)
    - **India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 - The Register** (google_riscv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - Eagle-Tribune** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    15 min
  • Cache-Resident LLM Inference in GB-Scale Last-Level Caches
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Cache-Resident LLM Inference in GB-Scale Last-Level Caches** (arXiv)
    - **Energy-Efficient CNN Acceleration with MSDF Digit-Serial Arithmetic on FPGA** (arXiv)
    - **The RISC-V Vector Extensions for AI - Jon Peddie Research** (google_riscv)
    - **China's LineShine tops supercomputer ranking with all-CPU architecture - China Daily** (google_arch)
    - **How RISC-V CPUs and GPUs Are Reshaping High-Performance SoCs in 2026 - News and Statistics - IndexBox** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*
    0 min

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Condor Currents delivers concise breakdowns of the latest computer architecture research and RISC-V developments. Each episode covers recent arXiv papers on data prefetching, branch prediction, and…