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Condor Currents episodes

  • Confidence-Gated Admission for Hardware Prefetching: When the Gate Matters More Than the Predictor
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Confidence-Gated Admission for Hardware Prefetching: When the Gate Matters More Than the Predictor** (arXiv)
    - **Para-Pipe: Exploiting Hierarchical Operator Parallelism of ML Computational Graphs on SoCs** (arXiv)
    - **RISC-V: The Open-Source Revolution in CPU Architecture - design-reuse.com** (google_arch)
    - **The Evolution of CPU Architectures – From Intel 4004 To Modern SoCs - wccftech.com** (google_arch)
    - **RISC-V vs ARM: Which Instruction Set Architecture Will Dominate the Future? - Electropages** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • The key CPU architecture you've never heard of: RISC-V - redsharknews.com
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **The key CPU architecture you've never heard of: RISC-V - redsharknews.com** (google_arch)
    - **Checking In On The ISA Wars And Its Impact On CPU Architectures - hackaday.com** (google_arch)
    - **Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX - phoronix.com** (google_riscv)
    - **RISC-V Targets Data Centers as Open ISA Pushes Beyond Embedded Systems - EE Times Asia** (google_riscv)
    - **Migration Using Context Cache for Multicore RISC‐V Processor - Wiley Online Library** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • SchedBlame: Who Ran While You Waited? Culprit-Attributed CPU Contention for Containers on Stock Kernels
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **SchedBlame: Who Ran While You Waited? Culprit-Attributed CPU Contention for Containers on Stock Kernels** (arXiv)
    - **HBQ: Hierarchical Scaling Block Quantization with Hardware-Efficiency-Aware Design for Accurate LLM Inference** (arXiv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - techpowerup.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Ultra-compact mini PC from Japanese maker packs 8-core RISC-V CPU and up to 32 GB RAM - Notebookcheck** (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 Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    16 min
  • Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU 2026 on AMD EPYC 9755 Processor
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU 2026 on AMD EPYC 9755 Processor** (arXiv)
    - **Hardware Acceleration of Block-Diffusion LLM for Edge Devices** (arXiv)
    - **Migration Using Context Cache for Multicore RISC‐V Processor - onlinelibrary.wiley.com** (google_riscv)
    - **QuMA: Researchers Develop Quantum Microarchitecture that "Bridges the Gap" in Processor System Stacks - computer.org** (google_arch)
    - **A Deep Dive Into CPU Architecture - i-programmer.info** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • CHIPSMORE: Compute-in-Interconnect and -Memory Chiplets for Multi-Mode Multi-Request LLM Inference Acceleration
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **CHIPSMORE: Compute-in-Interconnect and -Memory Chiplets for Multi-Mode Multi-Request LLM Inference Acceleration** (arXiv)
    - **Scalable AXI4 Transaction Monitoring for Mixed-Criticality SoCs: From Phase-Level Precision to ID-Level Efficiency** (arXiv)
    - **Checking In On The ISA Wars And Its Impact On CPU Architectures - Hackaday** (google_arch)
    - **The Evolution of CPU Architectures – From Intel 4004 To Modern SoCs - Wccftech** (google_arch)
    - **RISC-V vs ARM: Which Instruction Set Architecture Will Dominate the Future? - electropages.com** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    14 min
  • Great Expectations: Benchmarking the Real-World Performance of RVV 1.0 in HPC
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Great Expectations: Benchmarking the Real-World Performance of RVV 1.0 in HPC** (arXiv)
    - **AI Hardware Accelerators for Large Language Models: Architectures and the Memory Wall** (arXiv)
    - **Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
    - **RISC-V Soft Processor System on DE10-Lite - Hackster.io** (google_riscv)
    - **The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    16 min
  • NOVA: Technology-Architecture Co-Design of Near-Memory Processing for Attention-SSM-MoE Hybrid LLM Inference
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **NOVA: Technology-Architecture Co-Design of Near-Memory Processing for Attention-SSM-MoE Hybrid LLM Inference** (arXiv)
    - **Performance Foundations of Parallel & Distributed Reasoning Language Models** (arXiv)
    - **Nvidia Vera CPU Architecture: Max single-threaded CPU at scale for agents - GamesBeat** (google_arch)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - Business Wire** (google_riscv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - HPCwire** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    14 min
  • SILK: Closing the Time-of-Check-to-Time-of-Use Gap in RoT-Protected AI Systems
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **SILK: Closing the Time-of-Check-to-Time-of-Use Gap in RoT-Protected AI Systems** (arXiv)
    - **Simthesizer: An Agent-Driven Simulation Framework for LLM Serving Systems** (arXiv)
    - **Design of a low-power RISC-V based intelligent endoscopy detection processor: EndoRISC-V - nature.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Enabling Comprehensive CWE-based Assurance for RISC-V Processors - Semiconductor Engineering** (google_riscv)
    - **Milk-V Jupiter2 is mini PC with a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processor - Liliputing** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • PRO-RAN: Processor-Level Characterization of Open RAN Centralized and Distributed Units
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **PRO-RAN: Processor-Level Characterization of Open RAN Centralized and Distributed Units** (arXiv)
    - **FoldPipe: Bounded Remote Streaming of Native Molecular Shards with Asynchronous Prefetch** (arXiv)
    - **China's LineShine tops supercomputer ranking with all-CPU architecture - China Daily** (google_arch)
    - **SpacemiT to launch server-class RISC-V processor following capital injection - South China Morning Post** (google_riscv)
    - **AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    16 min
  • FLINT: Efficiently Leveraging High Bandwidth Flash for Capacity-Scalable LLM Inference Acceleration
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **FLINT: Efficiently Leveraging High Bandwidth Flash for Capacity-Scalable LLM Inference Acceleration** (arXiv)
    - **Squeezing the Cache, Preserving the Truth: Monotonic Equipotential Allocation with Geodesia-KV** (arXiv)
    - **How Cache Coherency Simplifies AI Software** (semiengineering)
    - **Arm Reveals AGI Server CPU Architecture at Hot Chips, Targeting Agentic AI Workloads - finance.biggo.com** (google_arch)
    - **Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    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…