Episode 292: RISC-V Deep Dive, CTO Interview

  RISC-V Deep Dive, CTO Interview In this special edition of Radio Free HPC, we interview Mark Himelstein, RISC-V International Chief Technical Officer. In the discussion, we look at RISC-V from all angles, discussing how the opensource ISA is being used today and how it might be used tomorrow. And there’s a lot to consider.…

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Episode 291: Liqid Gets Hot, NSF Billion for AI

We have our full staff for this show – first time in a long time. We start out with introductions….Henry still lives in a survivalist compound in Las Cruces, NM, Jessi is still on crutches, and Shahin is still living in the smokey Silicon Valley. Jumping right into our topic:  DOD is getting two new,…

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Episode 289 and 290 Special Fun-tastic Double Episode

We’re finally starting to cut into our product backlog and, as a first, we’re presenting our special road trip double episode where Jessi and Dan traveled to the House of Henry, buried deeply in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We visit his rammed earth compound and recorded two RFHPC episodes there – and one of them…

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Episode 288: SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm?

We start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content. Jumping into our first topic, Risc-V IP and silicon purveyor SiFive earned a $61 million investment from a group of high-end investors including SK Hynix,…

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Episode 287: MLperf Wars & AMD’s Gaudy Numbers

Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! We’re blasting through our processing backlog and getting the episodes out as fast as possible (but no faster). In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most recent earnings. We start the episode…

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