“The average member of modern society is ill-equipped to be alone with his thoughts.” – John Krewson
What if you could get inside information on your competitors’ plans? Better still, what if you could get a heads-up when companies you’ve never even heard of start making moves to enter your turf?
That’s the business proposition for Magic NumberRead More → "Patent-Analysis AI Forecasts Market Activity"
In Part 1 of this 3-part miniseries, we cogitated and ruminated on the origins of artificial intelligence (AI). We also started to look at some of the “happy face” aspects of AI in the form of speech recognition, voice control, and machine vision.
Let’s continue with our happy faces for a moment. AI is now turning up in all sorts of applications, many of which are truly exciting with the potential to make the world a better place. Later, when we’ve lulled ourselves into a false sense … Read More → "The Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse (Part 2)"
The semiconductor IP market is big, growing, lopsided, lumpy, and weird.
What it’s not is particularly lucrative. Which is odd, considering that you’re selling the rights to intangible goods and collecting royalties on that in perpetuity. At first blush, it’s like printing money, just without the money part.
The total IP market raked in somewhere around $4.7 billion to $4.9 billion in 2018, depending on what you count and whom you ask. (As there … Read More → "IP Market Large, Growing, and Strange"
Big data center operators say they are seeing a steady stream of new architectures for accelerating deep learning neural networks—and the flow is just getting started, according to comments at last week’s AI Hardware Summit. One analyst pegged the number of established and startup companies designing AI accelerators at a whopping 130.
“The machine-learning revolution has reopened the opportunity for new architectures…let a thousand flowers bloom,” said … Read More → "AI Sparks Hyper-Competition"
A couple of months ago we talked about the new chip disintegration approach: chiplets. And even longer ago, we talked about zGlue’s fabric for interconnecting chiplets. But there are actually several ways in which chiplets are viewed as being co-assembled, which leaves the question, how are we going to connect these … Read More → "From Chiplet to Chiplet"
Since time immemorial, humans have been drawn to the idea of creating artificial creatures and intelligences. In Jewish folklore, for example, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being formed from inanimate clay or mud (as an aside, Helene Wecker’s break-out novel, The Golem and the Jinni, will have you on the edge of your seat at its conclusion).
More recently, mechanical automata … Read More → "The Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse (Part 1)"
“Fast, cheap, or reliable: pick any two” – Racer’s adage
Storing data used to be so easy. You’d MOV or POKE a few bytes into RAM and leave ’em there. If you had to store a lot of data, maybe you’d use an EEPROM, hard drive, or flash memory. Retrieving the data was almost as easy… assuming you remembered where you’d stored it.
Now, we need entire file systems to keep track of all the stored data, … Read More → "Embedded File Systems: a Tricky Task"
Someday, a new class of semiconductor companies will assemble their products Lego-style, mixing and matching dice from multiple companies. It’s a huge change that’s still a long way off.
More than 146 people from 80 companies signed up for an event last week at IBM’s Almaden Research Center to take some small steps in this direction. It was the fourth major face-to-face this year for the Open Domain-Specific Architecture (ODSA) group, following others hosted by Samsung and Intel.
In a sign of growing … Read More → "Group Puzzles Out Silicon Specs"
With the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and, more specifically, machine learning (ML), this is a time of great architectural innovation as developers compete to provide the best ML solutions. All engineering solutions have trade-offs; the trick here is to find the solution(s) with the fewest bad trade-offs.
In that spirit, we have a new architectural proposal from Aspinity, a start-up company. It’ … Read More → "RAMPing Up Always-On AI"
