Hot Chips 2026
Hot Chips 2026 (HC38)
Symposium where chip makers first present next-generation processor and accelerator designs.
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About Hot Chips 2026
Hot Chips 2026 (HC38) takes place August 23–25, 2026 at Memorial Auditorium on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California. The symposium is a technical disclosure venue for processor, accelerator and memory architectures, drawing an estimated 1,000–1,500 attendees.
Who should attend
The audience is silicon architects, CPU, GPU and accelerator designers, system architects, and industry analysts.
Why it matters
Hot Chips is often the first public disclosure of next-generation accelerator and memory architectures, well ahead of availability. For anyone planning AI or HPC systems, it is the clearest early signal on compute, memory bandwidth and packaging roadmaps.