The Apple M4 brings the AI- and graphics-processing features of recent iPhones and Macbooks to the iPad. continue reading
Apple is reportedly developing a data-center AI chip (NPU). Likely targeting inferencing, this chip’s raison d’etre is unclear. continue reading
Sampling its third and final Gaudi AI accelerator (NPU), Intel sets its eyes on enterprise customers. Intel Gaudi 3 tops Nvidia H100’s performance and scales out to 8,000-NPU clusters. continue reading
Google has stripped RISC-V support from the Android Common Kernel, but the ISA has always had other obstacles to adoption in smartphone application processing. Nonetheless, other designs will employ the ISA for such processing. continue reading
Raising money just before closing a SPAC merger, Blaize invites more skepticism than is already inherent in a SPAC deal. The transparency required of public companies inspires confidence in their products, not just their finances. continue reading
Arm’s Ethos-U85 NPU boasts higher performance, efficiency, and transformer network support compared to the Ethos-U65. Targeting edge AI applications, it scales from 256 GOPS to 4 TOPS and integrates with both Cortex-M and Cortex-A CPUs. continue reading
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