Google sees Domain specific custom chips as the future with chips 200 times or more faster than Intel chips

October 15, 2017April 7, 2017 by Brian Wang

There is a 17 page paper that details the technical details and performance of the Google Tensor chips. The TPU die leverages its advantage in MACs and on-chip memory to run short programs written using the domain-specific TensorFlow framework 15 times as fast as the K80 GPU die, resulting in a performance/Watt advantage of 29 …

$200,000 Kickstarter to improve Antimatter sail propulsion design and testing to ultimately achieve 10% of lightspeed

April 7, 2017October 17, 2016 by Brian Wang

A team previously funded by NASA, are continuing the design and testing of an antimatter thruster capable of reaching 10% lightspeed. In 2002 they were funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts to perform preliminary work on an antimatter-based propulsion system. This campaign seeks to fund a continuation of the design and experimental validation …