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System Challenges of Generative AI Inference Acceleration

System Challenges of Generative AI Inference Acceleration

When you look under the hood of generative AI processing, the system design challenges are many. Learn how efficiency, power consumption, and memory issues all come into play.


AI Networking Chip Startup, Enfabrica, Receives $125 Million in Series B Funding

AI Networking Chip Startup, Enfabrica, Receives $125 Million in Series B Funding

With Nvidia now added to its list of strategic investors, Enfabrica has opened pre-orders on systems using its AI era fabric switch IC


News Sep 15, 2023 by Duane Benson
Understanding the Compute Hardware Behind Generative AI

Understanding the Compute Hardware Behind Generative AI

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have had a huge impact in numerous sectors of society. As engineers, it’s helpful for us to understand the computing technology that makes it possible.


Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux is launching an integrated AI-powered “chatbot-like” design assistant that’s integrated into its web-based online PCB design tool.


News Apr 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
Polyn Debuts Power-saving AI Chip for Vibration-monitoring Sensors

Polyn Debuts Power-saving AI Chip for Vibration-monitoring Sensors

A new neuromorphic chip hopes to enable low-power predictive maintenance applications.


News Apr 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

The company has rolled out its Allegro X AI technology, designed to automate PCB placement and routing—claiming to enable 10x shorter turnaround times.


News Apr 07, 2023 by Jeff Child
AMD Rolls Out 5 nm ASIC-based Accelerator for the Interactive Streaming Era

AMD Rolls Out 5 nm ASIC-based Accelerator for the Interactive Streaming Era

With next-gen interactive live video streaming in mind, AMD’s new accelerator card is powered by dual purpose-built ASIC-based VPUs.


News Apr 06, 2023 by Jeff Child
Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis Is Bringing the Magic of AI To Chip Design

Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis Is Bringing the Magic of AI To Chip Design

Stelios Diamantidis, a Distinguished Architect at Synopsys, is leading efforts to apply artificial intelligence to integrated circuit design and optimization of the next generation of CPUs, GPUs, and memories.


Modules and Dev Kits Emerge for Building Amazon Sidewalk Devices

Modules and Dev Kits Emerge for Building Amazon Sidewalk Devices

As the company opens Sidewalk up for testing, the service from Amazon could have big implications in the IoT and smart home space.


News Mar 29, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Ahead of MWC 2023, AMD Unveils RF SoC Duo for 4G/5G Radio Unit Designs

Ahead of MWC 2023, AMD Unveils RF SoC Duo for 4G/5G Radio Unit Designs

Targeting emerging 4G/5G radio unit markets, AMD has released two new members of its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC digital front-end (DFE) family.


News Feb 23, 2023 by Jeff Child
Rambus Spins 6.4 GT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver for Speedier Servers

Rambus Spins 6.4 GT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver for Speedier Servers

The latest chip from Rambus raises the speed limit for DDR5, giving memory-hungry applications, such as data center servers, more room to run.


News Feb 06, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Seeking to leverage today’s data-rich engineering world, Siemens has released Questa Verification IQ, a software platform enabling data-driven IC verification.


News Feb 03, 2023 by Jeff Child
STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

The new cloud-based version includes a GitHub-based model resource, and remote access to a “board farm” to remotely benchmark edge-AI models on STM32 MCU boards.


News Jan 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
Intel VP Aims to Deliver AI Everywhere and to Everyone

Intel VP Aims to Deliver AI Everywhere and to Everyone

Wei Li is the VP and GM for Artificial Intelligence and Analytics at Intel where, for 20 years, he has been an award-winning technologist and leader. He now directs their AI Everywhere initiative.


SnapEDA, the “Google for Electronic Components,” Launches Syndication Network

SnapEDA, the “Google for Electronic Components,” Launches Syndication Network

With 10 million parts in SnapEDA's library, the electronic search site has simplified the design process even more with a syndication network.


News Oct 03, 2022 by Jake Hertz
BAE Systems to Launch its First Multi-sensor Satellite Cluster

BAE Systems to Launch its First Multi-sensor Satellite Cluster

A new satellite cluster will do machine learning (ML) on board, and be able to send intelligence securely back to Earth.


News Sep 14, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Running on Ampere’s 80-core Arm-based processors, Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) have been made generally available.


News Sep 02, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Optimized for media streaming, Intel’s new GPU family hopes to meet the video processing needs of data centers and the cloud.


News Aug 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Bill Vass of Amazon Web Services talks AI/ML, quantum computing, servers in space, the Metaverse, and how AWS wants to help engineers “just focus on being an engineer.”


Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

By moving location calculation to the cloud, Semtech’s new service allows for lower-power LoRa devices to be embedded in tracked Internet of Things (IoT) assets.


News Jun 22, 2022 by Jeff Child