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AI ASICs Will Become Increasingly Application-Specific


Back in 2017, I blogged about AI ASICs being not exactly ASICs. One of the primary reasons for not calling AI acceleration chips ASIC is because historically ASIC or Application Specific Integrated Circuit has referred to a fixed hardware block with limited programmability. AI ASICs on the other hand offer significant programming via frameworks such as Tensorflow and the point was that they are... » read more

Speech Applications Will Enable A New Category Of Edge AI Chips


Speech recognition has become an increasingly important feature in a wide range of devices. Wakewords such as Alexa or OK Google or Siri have now become a standard feature of wearables, smart-speakers, mobile phones, and even laptops. These devices have already shipped in millions of units and consumers are getting better at utilizing this feature. The wakeword recognition feature is slowly evo... » read more