AI

Unit shipments of AI PCs and GenAI smartphones are projected to total 295 million units by the end of 2024, up from 29 million units in 2023, says Gartner. Gartner defines AI PCs as PCs that are equipped with dedicated AI accelerators or cores, neural processing units (NPUs), accelerated processing units (APUs) or tensor processing units (TPUs). This provides improved ...

To meet the increased demand for generative AI in embedded and edge applications, Nvidia has released the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU. According to the company, it offers up to 1.5 times the performance of the earlier RTX A2000 12GByte processor. It enhances AI-powered design tools and high resolution visuals in industrial 3D design, such as structural analysis in civic ...

AI PCs – personal computers with specific SoC capabilities designed to run generative AI tasks locally – will grow from nearly 50 million units in 2024 to more than 167 million in 2027 by which time they will represent 60% of the PC market, says IDC. “Promises around enhanced user productivity via faster performance, plus lower inferencing costs, and the ...

Erqos has announced a phone and cloud connected programmable logic controller backed by an AI-based semi-automatic control code generator, and a similar tool for making matching phone apps. The DIN-rain controller, dubbed EQSP32, is built around an ESP32S3 microcontroller with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and the unit offers digital and analogue inputs and ouputs as well as serial busses. “EQSP32 lets ...

Google has announced a $1 billion investment in a new UK data centre, sited in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. The 33-acre site “will bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK” says Google, “supporting AI innovation and helping to ensure reliable digital services to Google Cloud customers and Google users in the UK and abroad”. It will “create construction and ...

The 2024 AI server market—encompassing AI Training and AI Inference—is projected to exceed 1.6 million units, growing at 40%, says TrendForce. Edge AI applications are shifting toward AI PCs. This shift aims to decentralize AI server workloads and broaden the AI usage spectrum. TrendForce expects AI PCs to meet Microsoft’s benchmark of 40 TOPS in computational power. With new products ...

Aaeon is aiming at robotics with a mini-PC built around Intel’s Core i3-N305 or Processor N97 CPUs, “chosen due to their balance of power consumption and performance”, it said. “The platform provides the sensor data processing, integrated graphics and resources required for path planning and control algorithms needed to bring automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots to market.” Xtreme ...

Notebooks with  AI acceleration engines designed to efficiently manage workloads and power consumption, enhanced by Microsoft Windows 11’s Copilot, are a way to getting the notebook market growing again, says TrendForce. The initial target demographic for AI PCs includes high-end business users and content creators with a higher price point, while the lack of  compelling AI applications might initially limit ...

CES 2024 is being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada with an estimated 130,000 attendees and over 4,000 exhibitors, writes Semiconductor Intelligence. CES (previously Consumer Electronics Show) has been held in Las Vegas every year since 1978, except for 2021 due to COVID-19. CES is put on by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). CTA is 100 years old, beginning ...

Microsoft and the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have teamed up in a multi-year project to explore material science using AI and super-computing, and discovered a promising solid electrolyte for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries as a proof-of-concept. The multi-step process used to search for possible electrolytes reduced a list of 32 million inorganic materials to 18 in 80 hours, ...