HPC

High-Performance Computing – refers to supercomputers and large-scale computation (science, modeling, AI). HPC applications drive demand for the fastest CPUs (like vector processors), GPUs (for GPGPU compute), and specialized interconnects. Chips for HPC often prioritize maximum performance and throughput, with high core counts, high memory bandwidth (HBM memory stacks), and advanced cooling (as in exascale supercomputers).

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ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80

Mar 19, 2026

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world.On 15 February 1946, ENIAC—developed in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia—was publicly demonstrated for the first time. Although primitive by today’s...