#accelerator chip

35 SFC/SNES games use the chip, although only 7 that came to the US: Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension, Kirby Super Star, Kirby’s Dream Land 3, PGA European Tour, PGA Tour '96, Power Rangers Zero: Battle Racers, and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

4 of the 35 were golf games, the other two being T&E Soft’s last two Super Famicom golf games, where they added the SA1 to create super-charged versions of games set on golf courses for which they’d already put out non-SA1 SFC carts. ; )

I got one from a seller who had titled the auction with the name of the non-SA1 version. ; )

Expansion pins for the SA1 chip:

Stanford researchers design accelerator chip that speeds up AI inferencing

Researchers at Stanford developed hardware that can run AI tasks quickly and energy-efficiently by melding eight cores into one AI engine.Read More

Rambus joins the RISC-V Foundation

Rambus has joined the RISC-V Foundation as a founding member. The organization is dedicated to managing and promoting the adoption of the RISC-V hardware architecture standard throughout the semiconductor market. With this announcement, Rambus joins a coalition comprising dozens of major industry players, including Google, Oracle, Western Digital and BAE Systems.

“RISC-V is a perfect example of…

Genode OS adds RISC-V support

The open source instruction set architecture known as RISC-V has gained significant momentum over the past year. To be sure, the ISA is now backed by a number of industry heavyweights, including Google, LG and BAE Systems.

Meanwhile, an R&D division of the Indian government is on track to develop its very first 64-bit microprocessor based on the RISC-V instruction set. It should also be noted…