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What you see, may be more than what you bargained for

Whether it be hardware or software, it's no longer enough to build bigger, faster, more efficient products. They gotta be smarter.  That's what we're seeing this Fall. Every meeting we've attended that introduced new semiconductor technology has dutifully listed hardware features: cores, process, busses, and transistors but has also stressed software enhancements. Software introductions list features, lots of features including AI, … Read more

Arm’s project Trillium

Too little too late, or the foreshadowing of history? Arm took advantage of the post-CES news lull to announce, “Project Trillium,” a suite of software tools for neural network inferencing at the edge, along with new hardware IP for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration that is scheduled to be available for licensing in late 2018. The key software element of … Read more

Visual Processors and CNN —the next generation supercomputer report from Jon Peddie Research

TIBURON, CA – January 2, 2018 – Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today released its latest quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. The major interest and activity in the market for Vision Processing Units (VPUs) continues to center on neural networks, both in terms of advances in the … Read more