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Speeding AI With Co-Processors

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...

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Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

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Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...

The Case for Hardware-Assisted Verification in Complex SoCs

This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...

Cambridge Quantum Computing: Taking The Open Source Route

Cambrian-AI Research Sr. Analyst Gary Fritz contributed this blog. AI has been advancing dramatically in the last decade. It is able to solve classes of problems (facial recognition, machine translation, autonomous vehicles, and others) that were not suitably handled...

RISC-V Startup Esperanto Technologies Samples First AI Silicon

Select customers are now evaluating the chip; early results look promising across a broad range of AI workloads Esperanto has been talking about their edge AI chips for several years, and now the company can demonstrate working AI acceleration for image, language, and...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

Everyone is not just talking about AI inference processing; they are doing it. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report this week forecasting that global generative AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025, growing 76.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, MarketsandMarkets...

Synopsys Opens The Next Chapter Of AI Tools For Chip Design And Manufacturing

The EDA leader has generated over $500M to date in AI tools and technologies. Now a new data analytics solution applies data management, curation, and analysis across the entire pipeline of chip creation. Synopsys was the first EDA company to apply AI to chip design,...

IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

IBM Research has doubled the capacity of its Vela AI Supercomputer, part of the IBM Cloud, to handle the strong growth in watsonx models and has aggressive plans to continue to expand and enhance AI inferencing with its own accelerator, the IBM AIU. A year ago, IBM...

Arm Adds More AI Firepower

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

INTEL Lays Down The Gauntlet For AMD And NVIDIA GPUs

The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....