The Quick Guide to Hot Chips 2024
Sitting through dozens of presentations, here is the executive summary.
This week, I was at Hot Chips 2024. If you do not know Hot Chips, it is a Silicon Valley conference that goes into chip designs and has been doing so for more than three decades. Instead of being laden with thousands of marketing folks, this is a conference where folks who design chips stand up and present there work, and why they did it. As you might have guessed, the 2024 edition was heavily AI chip focused. On STH, we did over 20 articles at the show, and most will not have time to read them. Instead, here is Hot Chips 2024 with a quick summary for each piece and a link to the full one.
For our Substack subscribers, I thought I would put together a quick summary of each. The Hot Chips committee did a great job of picking presentations, and it is certainly worth getting access to the full talks if you find one particularly interesting. For example, the Enfabrica one was great, but it was going faster than I could type. With that, let us get to the summary with each category presented in the order of what I felt were the most impactful presentations.