#accelerator chip

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The Super Nintendo / Super Famicom SA1 (“Super Accelerator 1”) chip is based on the same chip as the console’s main CPU, but three times the clock speed and with advanced math & DMA functions, among other advantages.

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:

Is my cart missing some sort of inner fastening prong on the left side there?

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Stanford researchers design accelerator chip that speeds up AI inferencing

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

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Rambus joins the RISC-V Foundation

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…

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Genode OS adds RISC-V support

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…

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