Floating-point arithmetic is used extensively in many applications across multiple market segments. These applications often require a large number of calculations and are prevalent in financial ...

Designed to leverage the parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU), microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is detailing today its FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and ...

The rise in interest in deep learning chips for training and inference has reignited interest in how reduced precision compute can cut down on energy, bandwidth, and other constraints inherent to ...

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...

Processor makers are pushing down the precision for a range of new and forthcoming devices, driven by a need that balances accuracy with energy-efficient performance for an emerging set of workloads.

For the past year, enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit waiting for the next generation of graphics cards to arrive. The 28nm node has persisted for far longer than any previous generation, and ...