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As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Renesas is aiming at industrial robots with a microcontroller that combines AI vision and real-time control processing. Called RZ/V2H, the ICs include the company’s DRP-AI3 ‘dynamically reconfigurable processor’ AI accelerator – recently revealed at ISSCC in San Francisco – in 10Top/s/W form. “Pruning technology employed in the DRP-AI3 accelerator improves AI computing efficiency, boosting inference performance to 80Top/s,” according to ...

PC shipments will grow 2% this year to 265.4 million units, says IDC, propelled by the introduction of AI PCs, which will drive the market at a 2.4% CAGRto 292.2 million units in 2028. Growth is expected to slowly ramp up over the year along with the availability of AI PCs, which will coincide with the beginning of a commercial ...

Taalas has emerged from stealth mode with a chip design which is claimed to ‘enable a single chip to outperform a small GPU data center, opening the way to a 1000x improvement in the cost of AI.’ In Q3, the company plans to  tape out its first large language model chip and, in Q1 2025, intends to make it available ...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has finished presenting his Spring Budget 2024 to the House of Commons. Technology-related subjects included the use of AI in the NHS, connectivity from space, a quantum computing error correction programme, and funding for the SaxaVord Spaceport, along with mentions of drones and facial recognition systems. For example, one of the budget announcements ...

AI servers will take 12.1% of a 2024 server market which will grow 2.05% y-o-y to 13.65 units primarily driven by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), says TrendForce.. Foxconn is expected to see the highest growth rate, with an estimated annual increase of about 5–7%. This growth includes significant orders such as Dell’s 16G platform, AWS Graviton 3 and 4, Google ...

The EU PREVAIL project to accelerate the development of edge-AI technologies is installing cleanroom tools and gearing up to design, evaluate, test and fabricate new circuits from across Europe.  CEA-Leti,  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft,  imec and  VTT are running the initiative to set up a  Testing and Experimentation Facility for Edge-AI Hardware (TEF Edge AI HW to validate edge-AI components and fabricate  prototype ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the jobs market and altering the way we work, discovers Caroline Hayes. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of the job market is a cause for debate. Some experts believe AI will result in the displacement of human employees, while others are strongly convinced that AI will bring new possibilities and enhance the ...

Automatic and reliable defect detection using AI-enabled vision systems increases productivity. By Michael Uyttersprot and Giovanni Gualdi. Vision systems are a key part of industrial automation, critical to maintaining quality control throughout the system. Simple automated processes expect objects to be in specific places, for example, on a pallet or a conveyor belt. These systems use basic sensors, but are ...

SoftBank is to put $100 billion into a project called Izanagi to make AI chips designed by Arm. The plan is for SoftBank to put $30 billion of its own money into Izanagi and raise $70 billion externally. The move, along with an  investment of $147 million by Nvidia in Arm’s shares and a bullish Q1 forecast, has boosted Arm’s ...