Steve Roddy

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Steve Roddy is the chief marketing officer at Quadric.io. Previously, he was vice president of the Machine Learning Group at Arm, and before that he served as vice president for IP licensing businesses at Tensilica (acquired by Cadence), and Amphion Semiconductor. He also held product management roles at Synopsys, LSI Logic, and AMCC.

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The Next Disruption

By Steve Roddy - 09 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

Machine learning (ML) is an inherently disruptive technology because the algorithm architectures are evolving so fast and are very compute intensive, requiring innovative silicon for acceptable performance. This blog looks at where we’ve been and where ML is going – into another market ready for disruption. ML started in the data center In the early days of the ML explosion – a mere 8 o... » read more

Operator Anxiety

By Steve Roddy - 12 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

Are you one of the early pioneers who have purchased an electric car? In the United States in Q3 2022, 6% of new vehicle sales were pure electric models. Despite all the hype — and significant purchase subsidies in support of battery cars — today only 1% of the cumulative number of vehicles in service in the US are purely plug-in electric. One of the reasons electric car sales have not full... » read more

Don’t Let Your ML Accelerator Vendor Tell You The ‘F-Word’

By Steve Roddy - 08 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

Machine learning (ML) inference in devices is all the rage. Nearly every new system on chip (SoC) design start for mobile phones, tablets, smart security cameras, automotive applications, wireless systems, and more has a requirement for a hefty amount of ML capability on-chip. That has silicon design teams scrambling to find ML processing power to add to the existing menu of processing engines ... » read more

Scalable Platforms For Evolving AI

By Steve Roddy - 14 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Wear and tear on big, heavy vehicles such as trains can cause unexpected delays and repairs, not to mention create safety hazards that can go unnoticed for months until they become critical. In the past, maintenance teams personally examined the undercarriage of a locomotive to look for stress cracks and other anomalies. Later, imaging and sonar technologies were introduced to find what the hum... » read more

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