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ST Microelectronics Orlando Inferencing Engine.

The CNN accelerator field continues to get more crowded. ST Micro quietly previewed their Orlando high-efficiency inferencing accelerator at CES and have now gone public with an announcement at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Built on ST’s proprietary 28nm FD-SOI process, the chip is still described as a prototype but it is supported with a full set of production ...

Peter McGuinness

The CNN accelerator field continues to get more crowded. ST Micro quietly previewed their Orlando high-efficiency inferencing accelerator at CES and have now gone public with an announcement at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Built on ST’s proprietary 28nm FD-SOI process, the chip is still described as a prototype but it is supported with a full set of production tools and comes complete with an Arm microcontroller that makes it suitable for standalone embedded applications. The Orlando platform is a highly configurable design and is expected to appear in a variety of customer-specified configurations. The heart of the accelerator
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