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The Future of Frontier Model Architectures with Walter Goodwin, Founder & CEO of Fractile

The Future of Frontier Model Architectures with Walter Goodwin, Founder & CEO of Fractile

Walter Goodwin, founder and CEO of full-stack AI chip company Fractile, discusses the bets behind his company's inference chips, including memory bandwidth as the key constraint, the value of owning the entire chip stack, compressing the gap between chip design and deployment, and how the accelerator market may evolve as frontier labs pursue faster inference.

Six Years of Rowhammer: Breakthroughs and Future Directions

Six Years of Rowhammer: Breakthroughs and Future Directions

Stefan Saroiu from Microsoft Research details Project STEMA's six-year journey tackling the DRAM security flaw, Rowhammer. He discusses how academic research kept the industry honest about DDR4 vulnerabilities, the development of their in-DRAM defense, Panopticon, and its evolution into the industry standard PRAC for DDR5, while highlighting that significant challenges and research opportunities remain.