AI

Scientists at the University of Bristol are using AI to help two robot arms to share the handling of objects – something they call bi-manual manipulation. “With our system, we can train AI agents in a virtual world within a couple of hours to achieve bi-manual tasks that are tailored towards the touch,” said research engineer Yijiong Lin. “More importantly, ...

ICs for AI  workloads will be a $53.4 billion market this year, says Gartner, which is 20.9% up y-o-y “The developments in generative AI and the increasing use of a wide range of  AI-based applications in data centers, edge infrastructure and endpoint devices require the deployment of high performance GPUs and optimised semiconductor devices. This is driving the production and ...

Just to flag this one: Google is offering some free AI training for everyone in the UK. Maybe perfect timing if you want to investigate machine learning or artificial intelligence further.

IBM has revealed an analogue in-memory IC for implementing neural networks. The device stores weights locally as analogue levels as conductance in phase-change memory, and implements analogue multiply-accumulate calculation. For analogue AI processing “two key challenges need to be overcome: These memory arrays need to compute with precision on par with existing digital systems, and they need to be able ...

Design tools made room for AI at this year’s DAC, as electronic design automation companies integrate the technology to automation, analyse and accelerate designs, reports Caroline Hayes. Siemens Digital Industries software tied two themes of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) together in one new product when it announced Solido Design Environment, an artificial intelligence (AI) -powered IC design and verification ...

This is an interesting one I saw on the Iridium website recently: the Mayflower Autonomous Ship is an automated, uncrewed vessel designed to sail across the Atlantic without human intervention.

Ceva has filled-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and classic AI to be developed and run on the NeuPro-M NPU.” ...

AI chip maker Hailo has introduced a 208Top/s PCIe processor card for implementing neural networks, and an entry-level version of its Halio-8 IC. The PCIe cards, called ‘Hailo-8 Century’, execute at 400frame/s/W on the ResNet50 benchmark model, said the company, and the highest-performance version can run the same benchmark at 10,000frame/s. Versions start at 52Top/s, and video processing applications are ...

Mouser has set up a resource centre focused on AI containing articles on topics, such as Deploying Edge-Based AI Using KriaSoMs, An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection, and  An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection. The content stream grants access to free educational content, such as eBooks, blogs and articles, making it easy for designers ...

SolidRun is aiming at artificial intelligence with a fanless industrial computer that combines an octa-core AMD Ryzen 7840HS processor and three of Hailo’s Hailo-8 AI accelerators, each rated at 26Top/s. “An important feature of Hailo-8 AI accelerator and Hailo AI software suite is linear scaling of the inference performance simply by adding modules,” said Hailo product manager Dima Caplan. “SolidRun’s ...