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Cadence Design Announces Second-Generation IP For Edge AI

AI is penetrating nearly every market and every device, causing leading microprocessor developers to rethink their SoC to enable fast AI execution at low power. The global edge AI hardware market size was valued at $6.88 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach...

Story Correction: TechSpot Now Says AMD Believes That “AI Will Be Important To All Our Products Going Forward”

TechSpot has issued a retraction, says the reporter ‘misrepresented’ AMD spokesperson… this article has been subsequently updated…. TechSpot issued a correction on their interview with Justin Galton of AMD, noting “…unfortunately the source for that story...

Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

IBM Research Secures Future Safe From Quantum Attacks

Quantum computing will bring unimagined innovations to the world when it finally arrives in full glory. Still, quantum remains in the research labs at companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. While companies and research institutions are investing billions of...

Synopsys Moves To RISC-V To Help SoC Developers

When the number two provider of CPU designs jumps on the RISC-V train, it is a significant milestone. The open-source RISC-V design is on a roll, displacing Arm in many SoC development plans. ARC and Arm are both companies that design and license microprocessor (CPU)...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

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...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...