AI: Engineering Tool Or Threat To Jobs?

By Ed Sperling - 02 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about using AI for designing and testing complex chips with Michael Jackson, corporate vice president for R&D at Cadence; Joel Sumner, vice president of semiconductor and electronics engineering at National Instruments; Grace Yu, product and engineering manager at Meta; David Pan, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering a... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Oct 18

By Linda Christensen - 18 Oct, 2022 - Comments: 0

New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=57 /] » read more

More Efficient Matrix-Multiplication Algorithms with Reinforcement Learning (DeepMind)

By Technical Paper Link - 11 Oct, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new research paper titled "Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning" was published by researchers at DeepMind. "Here we report a deep reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero for discovering efficient and provably correct algorithms for the multiplication of arbitrary matrices," states the paper. Find the technical paper link here. Publis... » read more

COVID-19 Tech Bits

By Linda Christensen - 06 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Tech companies, consortiums and universities are jumping in to help fight COVID-19, deploying everything from massive computing capabilities to developing new technologies that can protect medical workers and first responders. Nearly all of these have ramped up over the past several weeks, as the tech world begins to take on a global challenge to combat the deadly virus. Compute resources... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 28 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Internet of Things vendors and providers of network services need to collaborate to fully realize the possibilities presented by the IoT, Chris Martin of PowWowNow writes. “The potential applications for IoT sensors and devices span a vast number of industries, with IoT technologies expediting the growth of smart cities, autonomous vehicles and connected industry technolog... » read more

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