![]() ![]() He added chip designers “also need to consider the composition of the critical software components that come with it, and that combination, that co-optimization of software hardware becomes essentially the pathway to being able to bring such complex systems.”. "People develop software and silicon has to come underneath it,” Gelsinger said. Intel is trying to keep up the software's insatiable computing demand by engineering new types of chips that can scale computing going forward. "It's popular again today because of the slowing of Moore's Law, improvements in transistor speed and efficiency, and improved software compiler technologies," Krewell said. The more modern interpretation is that the hardware is an amorphous collection of hardware blocks that are orchestrated by a compiler to perform some workloads efficiently, without a lot of extraneous control hardware," Krewell said.Ĭhip designers are taking up hardware-software co-optimization to break down the walls between the software tasks and the hardware it runs on, with a goal to gain greater efficiency. "We've had FPGAs since the 1980s and those are software-defined hardware. The idea of software driving hardware development isn't new, but it has been resurrected for the era of workload accelerators, said Kevin Krewell, an analyst at Tirias Research. ![]() Software is moving the industry forward with new styles of compute such as AI, and chipmakers are now taking a software-first approach in hardware development to support the new applications. Many chip designs presented were developed baked in the concept of hardware-software co-design, which emerged in the 1990s to ensure "meeting system level objectives by exploiting the synergism of hardware and software through their concurrent design," according to a paper published by IEEE in 1997. The importance of software in silicon development saw a revival at the Hot Chips conference. We have to treat those as the sacred interfaces that we have, then bring hardware under and that's where silicon has to fit into it," Gelsinger said. Software will drive hardware development, specifically chips, as complex systems drive the insatiable demand for computing power, Gelsinger said during his keynote at the conference. The software market will be close to three times larger than the hardware market in 2026, and that fact wasn't lost on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the Hot Chips conference this month. ![]()
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