Revision as of 01:25, 4 January 2019

In 2018:

• January 3: A new series of side-channel attacks were disclosed which had industry-wide implications (Meltdown and Spectre).
• January 3: Samsung announces their next flagship microprocessor, the Exynos 9810
• January 7-12: CES 2018
  • January 7: Intel launches 8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M, formerly Kaby Lake G.
  • January 8: NVIDIA launches the Drive Xavier autonomous car SoC.
• January 10: SPEC CPU2006 has been retired.
• January 24: Imagination Technologies launches the PowerVR Series8XT GT8540, a new high-performance GPU based on Furian.
• February 5: Ampere Computing announces their first ARM processor, the A1.
• February 7: Intel launches Xeon D processors based on the Skylake microarchitecture (formerly Skylake DE)
• February 11-15: ISSCC 2018
• February 12: AMD launched Ryzen desktop APUs based on Zen and Vega
• February 13: ARM announces two new neural processors IPs - the ML processor for inference processing and the OD processor for real-time object detection.
• February 21: AMD launches EPYC Embedded processors (formerly Snowy Owl) and Ryzen Embedded (formerly Great Horned Owl)
• February 26: Intel started shipping its Stratix 10 TX FPGAs with up to 58 Gbps PAM4 transmission capabilities.
• February 26: GreenWaves launches their first product, the GAP8, an ultra-low power RISC-V microprocessor for intelligence IoT
• February 27: Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 700 family intended to bridge the gap between the 600 and 800 series by offering a mix of premium features and mid-range pricing.
• March 4: Microchip announced it will acquire Microsemi for $8.35 billion.
• March 6: Google announces Bristlecone, a 72 qubits chip
• March 24: John Hennessy and David Patterson receive 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
• March 27: GPU Technology Conference
  • March 27: Nvidia announces the DGX-2 consisting of 16 V100 GPUs utilizing NVLink 2.0 and the NVSwitch
• April 1: ON Semiconductor increased stake in Aizu Fujitsu Semiconductor to 40%
• April 19: AMD launches Ryzen 2nd generation based on the Zen+ microarchitecture.
• May 1: MIPS Technologies launches the nanoMIPS ISA
• May 1: MIPS launches the I7200 based on the nanoMIPS ISA
• May 2: ARM launches a new Cortex-M35P secure core
• May 3: Cambricon launches new neural processors for data center
• May 8: Google announces the TPU 3.0
• May 15: Intel launches Cannon Lake
• May 23: Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 700 series of premium mid-range SoCs
• June 3: Cavium announces general availability for the ThunderX2 based on Vulcan
• June 5: Intel discloses Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake
• June 13: Wave Computing acquires MIPS Technologies
• June 16: ORNL's Summit Supercomputer became the world's fastest
• June 18: The CCIX Consortium release CCIX base specification 1.0
• June 24: Fujitsu announces their Post-K CPU prototype was complete
• June 29: Fujitsu sells Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor (MIFS) to UMC
• July 3: Baidu unvailed Kunlun, a new family of custom neural processors
• July 12: Intel launches Coffee Lake E-based Xeon E entry-level workstation processors
• July 12: Intel acquires eASIC for undisclosed sum
• July 17: MediaTek introduces the Helio A series
• July 18: Xilinx acquires DeePhi for undisclosed sum
• July 26: Google announces the Edge TPU
• August 6: AMD introduced second-generation Threadripper
• August 13: Nvidia unveils the Turing microarchitecture
• September 10: BrainChip announces Akida
• September 11: Renesas acquires IDT for $6.7B
• September 12: Apple announces the A12 Bionic
• September 18: Ampere launched the eMAG family of ARM server processors
• October 16: Samsung announces the Exynos Auto
• October 30: Apple announces the A12X Bionic
• October 31: SiFive introduces 7 Series
• November 6: AMD discloses Zen 2