Month: April 2024
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Rivos Emerges from Stealth, Hints at RISC-V Plans
Rivos has raised $250 million to develop a RISC-V-based processor that accelerates data-parallel operations yet aims to be easy to program.
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Another Cloud Company Flexes Arm
Google joins the Arm server race with its Axion processor, promising better performance and efficiency than x86 chips for Google Cloud. Axion frees Google from reliance on AMD and Intel and could reduce costs, including energy expenses. As Arm’s ecosystem grows, cloud customers may also benefit.
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AI, RISC-V, and FPGAs Take the Stage at Embedded World 2024
Embedded World 2024 showcased advancements in processor technology, including for artificial intelligence (AI), the RISC-V CPU architecture, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), including announcements from Altera, AMD, Arm, NXP, and others.
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Generative AI at the Edge Gets a New Hailo Product
Israeli startup Hailo unveiled the Hailo-10 edge-AI NPU. Rated at 40 TOPS, it offers 50% more peak performance than the earlier Hailo-8, purportedly to handle gen AI.
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NeuReality NR-1: AI-Processing Revolution or Time to Accept the Old Reality?
NeuReality, an Israeli startup, challenges the AI-processing landscape with the NR-1. Calling it a network-addressable processing unit (NAPU), the company aims to streamline AI inference by managing data flow, scheduling tasks, and potentially reducing reliance on CPUs.