AI

Siemens and AWS are seeking to make it easier for businesses to build and scale GenAI applications by integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, with Mendix – part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. “By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratizing generative ...

Intel and  a group of investors including  DigitalBridge, Fin Capital, Mindset Ventures, Communitas Capital, GiantLeap Capital, GS Futures and Zain Group have formed Articul8 to  offer enterprise customers a full-stack, vertically-optimised and secure GenAI software platform. The platform delivers AI capabilities that keep customer data, training and inference within the enterprise security perimeter. The platform also provides customers the choice ...

Automotive is the most important revenue driver for the semiconductor industry, says a survey  by KPMG and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) because of the  computerisation and electrification of vehicles. AI came second Microprocessors (including GPUs used for AI) were ranked as the top product opportunity for industry growth over 2024 Implementing Gen AI was ranked among the top three ...

A range of COM Express modules released by congatec are based on the Intel Core Ultra processors, which integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) called Intel AI Boost. According to congatec, the conga-TC700 COM Express Compact Type 6 computer on modules (CoMs) can be used to integrate AI workloads with lower system complexity and costs than using discrete accelerators. c ...

A number of Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and HiSilicon,  are bringing out AI ICs but their competitiveness is likely to be impeded by  the US restrictions on supplies of EDA, chip manufacturing equipment and personnel, reports TrendForce. HiSilicon’s Ascend 910B is used  in Huawei’s public cloud infrastructure as well as being sold outside,  and  Baidu ordered over ...

Combining AI with thermal imaging can ‘flesh out’ pedestrians to improve automotive safety systems at day and by night, says Wade Appelman of Owl Autonomous Imaging. Why are automotive manufacturers interested in a technology that combines expensive, cumbersome thermal imaging and complex, computer-hungry AI to solve a straightforward problem such as pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB)? The answer is because ...

Synopsys is expanding its Synopsys.ai EDA suite to bring GenAI across the full stack  to  improve engineering productivity for the semiconductor industry. This expands upon Synopsys’ recent announcement to deliver Synopsys.ai Copilot, the first in a series of GenAI capabilities for chip design. Early collaborations with AMD, Intel, and Microsoft have substantiated the power of generative AI for chip design. ...

Vladimir Putin is about issue a decree setting out Russia’s AI development strategy, he told an AI conference in Moscow at the weekend. The strategy will involve legal changes, international cooperation and more investment. “In the very near future, as one of the first steps, a presidential decree will be signed and a new version of the national strategy for ...

Synopsys and Microsoft have developed Synopsys.ai Copilot which designs ICs for the Azure Open AI Service. Synopsys.ai is an AI-driven EDA suite. Azure OpenAI Service gives access to OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) with the enterprise-ready capabilities of Microsoft Azure. Together, the companies collaborated to support Synopsys’ development of Synopsys.ai Copilot, bringing together Azure OpenAI Service generative AI capabilities with ...

NVIDIA has introduced an AI foundry service to supercharge the development and tuning of custom generative AI applications for enterprises and startups deploying on Microsoft Azure. The NVIDIA AI foundry service pulls together three elements — a collection of NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, NVIDIA NeMo framework and tools, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing services — that give enterprises an end-to-end ...