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Hot Chips 2026: Power and Memory, Not Raw Compute, Take Center Stage in AI Chip Designs
At Hot Chips 2026, Nvidia, Fujitsu, Arm, d-Matrix, Samsung and others presented new approaches to the two constraints increasingly limiting AI data centers: electrical power and memory bandwidth/capacity, with several companies proposing new memory tiers and dynamic power schemes rather than simply adding more compute.
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At Hot Chips 2026, IBM revealed a next-generation mainframe processor that natively executes both z/Architecture and Arm (AArch64) instructions within the same core, the result of an IBM-Arm collaboration announced in April 2026.
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