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The Snapdragon AI Journey

Preparing for the next leap ahead. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) has been researching, developing, and shipping AI acceleration on their Snapdragon processors for the past decade. QTI’s state-of-the-art AI technology is born from smartphones. It leverages its...

AI Has Eaten IBM Think

AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...

Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...

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...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

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...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...

Cerebras Systems Wins A Major New Client: The Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic has one of the world’s most extensive and valuable health data sets. AI can now transform that treasure trove into better health outcomes and scientific understanding, and Cerebras has been selected to help. As we noted last Fall, Cerebras is one of...