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The third generation of general-purpose neural processing units (GPNPUs) by Quadric introduces pre-integrated clusters of two, four or eight cores to deliver up to 108 TOPS. This latest iteration has increased performance and optimisations for generative AI. the company has also introduced a safety enhanced version for automotive applications. The company described the Chimera QC series as NPUs with a ...

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 ...

iWave Systems has collaborated with Texas Instruments to create a solderable system-on-module powered by automotive-grade AM62Ax Sitara processors – which are nominally vision processors. Meeting the 45 x 45mm 622pad LGA OSM v1.1 solderable standard, the module is called iW-RainboW-G55M. Courtesy of the TI IC, it has quad 1.4GHz Arm Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an 800MHz Cortex-R5F (MPU channel with FFI), ...

A recent innovation at ISSCC is for the organisers to hand-pick a few ICs that they would like to hear about the conference – all the other speakers have to apply to present their innovations. This year they picked machine learning accelerators for both training and inference, an ultra-high bandwidth chip-to-chip link and an ‘infrastructure processing unit’ (IPU) for off-loading ...

MediaTek has announced 6nm processors aimed at 5G mobile phones. Dimensity 920 includes hardware-based 4K HDR video capture, supporting up to four concurrent cameras and sensors up to 108Mpixel, and the company is claiming a 9% boost in gaming performance compared to its Dimensity 900 predecessor. An octa-core Arm Cortex-A78 running at up to 2.5GHz is at the heart of its processing, ...

Engineers at Columbia University are defending memory against hackers by adding defensive commands to processor instruction sets. “Memory safety has been a problem for nearly 40 years and numerous solutions have been proposed, according to Columbia computer scientist Simha Sethumadhavan. “We believe that memory safety continues to be a problem because it does not distribute the burden in a fair manner ...

ArchiTek has licenced a risc-V processor core from SiFive to complete its AiOnIc proof-of-concept artificial intelligence processor. “SiFive E3-Series Core IP enabled us to hit our performance, power, and area targets, while SiFive Core Designer and SiFive partner DTS-Insight helped reduce our development time,” said ArchiTek CEO and CTO Shuichi Takada. AiOnIc’s architecture, called ‘aIPE’ is designed for use in fan-less edge ...

AMD is claiming “the world’s highest performing server processor” for the EPYC 7003 series. The record claim is for the EPYC 7763 which has 64 2.45GHz ‘Zen 3’ cores (3.675GHz boost) with 256Mbyte of cache running two threads per core. The fastest version runs at 3.7GHz (4.1GHz boost) and has 8 cores running 16 threads and the same cache size ...

The IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, known as ISSCC, is the worlds showcase for state-of-the-art on-chip circuit developments, both analogue and digital. Held annually at this time of year, it is usually held physically in San Francisco, allowing engineer to rub shoulders and network as well as learn. This year only, hopefully, ISSCC has gone virtual. A new feature for ...

Concurrent Technologies announce its first 3U VPX artificial intelligence accelerator board based on an Intel Arria FPGA earlier this year, developed in accordance with a proposed VITA 65.1 profile aligned with the SOSA Technical Standard, according to the company. Called TR AEx/6sd-RCx, it is intended for inference at the edge applications such as real-time object recognition and behaviour monitoring. “Inferencing performance can ...