Jan Gray
@jangray.bsky.social
Kilocore RISC-V FPGA accelerators; former Microsoft dev tools architect; RISC-V SoftCPU SIG & Composable Custom Extensions Task Group; blog: https://fpga.org. Cyclist. Let's try kindness. 🇨🇦-🇺🇸
Here at #FMS2026 Samsung, going beyond 2.5D HBM4e/5, discloses future 3D zHBM and zNAND-O. zHBM: You knew it was inevitable. IMO this 3D integration will require a tour de force of packaging and codesign to match the pitches of the SoCs x stacks and cope with all the power and thermal challenges.
Worthy of your attention is this editorial from CACM Editor-in-Chief @jameslarus.bsky.social on, I think, the soul and purpose of ACM. cacm.acm.org/opinion/with... Jim nails my reasons for first joining ACM 40 years ago, how it changed, its future as a professional society. (Lifetime member.)
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
We’re not sure if Jimothy’s closest drop box is at Ballard Library or the Crown Hill Safeway, but we know you can find YOUR nearest drop box at kce.wiki/DropBox
Voted. As always it’s great to vote by mail / drop box in Washington state. Spent serious time figuring out several state Supreme Court positions, at the kitchen table. Exercise your franchise. Kudos @elections.kingcounty.gov
Nothing like doing all corners of the thing to really really understand all corners of the thing.
“There are fewer rules than you think.” - Linda Carson
Jason Moore@moorejh.bsky.social · last wk.rule #6
Occasionally you must set the min clk period and refuse to budge.
Picard Tips@picardtips.bsky.social · last wk.Picard resistance tip: Occasionally there are times when you must draw a line and refuse to budge.
We are in a democracy vs. autocracy game, not a Palestine vs Israel game or an ai vs not-ai game. If you ever want a vote on policy again, it's time to focus on democracy vs autocracy in the US (and elsewhere too).
=> Scaling Out & Up with the UET: Evolution of UET from Scale-Out NWking to Converged Scale-Up & Scale-Out Fabrics, Paul Congdon, Congdon Consulting, UEC Principal Editor, ITU-T/IEEE joint WS - Emerging standards in the AI/ML, Jul 11, 2026 www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Wor... +Scale-Up (UET v1.1), Aug 2026
=> Marvell Brings Radix, Low Latency, and Bandwidth to Bear with Teralynx T100, Jul 17, 2026 www.nextplatform.com/connect/2026... TSMC 3nm 100.4 Tb/s 512x 224 Gb/s SerDes Latency: 420 ns < 1000W (Typical) ESUN, UEC (ver?) Jul 16 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmS... Jun 1 www.marvell.com/company/news...
"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.'
In this paper is presented DGNA, a framework to uncover the NUMA architecture within the GPU memory hierarchy through microbenchmarking and data analysis. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19922
R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.
Watch: Visitor from Chicago has a stinking great time biking around Seattle #SEAbikes #Seattle
Watch: Visitor from Chicago has a stinking great time biking around Seattle
Jonny Nelson from Chicago biked around Seattle recently, and good grief it seems like he had a stinking great time. It's always interesting to see your own city through the eyes of someone who doesn't know much about the city. Despite encountering the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link very early in his adventure, he still had a great time biking from Golden Gardens to downtown and back (with stops in Gas Works Park and Discovery Park). I especially enjoyed when he was lightly complaining about climbing the gradual hill on Gilman Ave up to Discovery Park before descending down to the lighthouse.
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Had a great time at the Tacoma Open this weekend! Took home the 2nd place for Best Painted Army for my Stormcast, and a Silver for Tornus in the Open Painting competiton. ⚡ #warhammer #warhammercommunity #ageofsigmar
Neil Armstrong narrates the final three minutes of the moon landing. You know the result and it's still terrifying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqe7...
Neil Armstrong Narrating his Apollo 11 Moon Landing
YouTube video by Peter Aylward
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KING HENRY V I tell thee truly, herald, I know not if the day be ours or no, For yet a many of your horsemen peer And gallop o’er the field. MONTJOY The day is yours.
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
FYI RISC-V International leadership has opted to disenfranchise its Individual members of their voting rights in technical working groups. (You may still contribute to — or even lead — a TWG, but can no longer vote when it counts, even if you wrote the spec.) (Discussed in RVI Confluence RVP-75.)
I designed and taped out a Linux ASIC SoC using the GF180 PDK through wafer.space.
wafer.space - Budget silicon manufacturing.
Create integrated circuits without breaking the bank!
wafer.space
An intense month of concentration has excised >1 ns of critical paths from the most complex thing I’ve ever designed. Light at the end of the tunnel. This thing is going to be OK. Onwards.
Woke from a nightmare: giving an invited talk at UCBerkeley but brought wrong laptop, no slides, Dave Patterson leaves, disinterested. 😮
