Year: 2024
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Google Trillium Blooms, Promising AI Efficiency and Speed
Google unveils the Trillium TPU, its next-gen AI chip (NPU) that features larger MXU matrix units to boost throughput and updated SparseCores to handle embeddings.
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Plug: The SHD Group is Developing a Complimentary Edge-AI Processor and Ecosystem Report
I’ve joined the SHD Group to produce an edge-AI report. Intended to be a resource for both product developers and technology suppliers, it will detail processors integrating AI, accelerators, software, and services and deliver insights into edge AI application requirements. We’re partnering with the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, and our research dovetails with recent…
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Using It to Make AI Chips, SoftBank Would Risk Arm
Arm may design and sell AI chips, targeting production by 2025. Directed by majority shareholder SoftBank Group, the move is risky. Selling chips is less likely to succeed than licensing AI IP, which Arm already does, and won’t alienate Arm’s customers.
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Commodore Guns for Nvidia
Some guy is accomplishing generative AI using a Commodore 64. His BASIC code generates sprites, the tiny character images eight-bit games use.
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Apple M4 Processor Debuts in New iPads
The Apple M4 brings the AI- and graphics-processing features of recent iPhones and Macbooks to the iPad.
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Is It Smart for Apple to Design a Data-Center AI Chip?
Apple is reportedly developing a data-center AI chip (NPU). Likely targeting inferencing, this chip’s raison d’etre is unclear.