What Will Intel Do Next?

By Ed Sperling - 27 Sep, 2018 - Comments: 2

The writing is on the wall for big processor makers. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are developing their own processors. In addition, there are more than 30 startups developing various types of AI accelerators, as well as a field of embedded FPGA vendors, a couple of discrete FPGA makers, and a slew of soft processor cores. This certainly hasn't been lost on Intel. As the world's largest... » read more

Intel’s Next Move

By Ed Sperling - 11 Sep, 2018 - Comments: 0

Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about Intel's vision for deep learning and why the company is looking well beyond the x86 architecture and one-chip solutions. SE: What's changing on the processor side? Singer: The biggest change is the addition of deep learning and neural ne... » read more

Using More Verification Cores

By Brian Bailey - 30 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about parallelization efforts within EDA with Andrea Casotto, chief scientist for Altair; Adam Sherer, product management group director in the System & Verification Group of Cadence; Harry Foster, chief scientist for Mentor, a Siemens Business; Vladislav Palfy, global manager for applications engineering at OneSpin; Vigyan Singhal, chief Oski for ... » read more

The Rising Cost Of 5G

By Ed Sperling - 22 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about challenges and progress in 5G with Yorgos Koutsoyannopoulos, president and CEO of Helic; Mike Fitton, senior director of strategic planning and business development at Achronix; Sarah Yost, senior product marketing manager at National Instruments; and Arvind Vel, director of product management at ANSYS. What follows are excerpts of that conversat... » read more

AI, ML Chip Choices

By Ed Sperling - 07 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Flex Logix’s Cheng Wang talks about which types of chips work best for neural networks, AI and machine learning. https://youtu.be/k7OdP7B10o8 » read more

Auto Chip Test Getting Harder

By Kevin Fogarty - 06 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 3

Chipmakers and test/validation companies are helping lead the effort to develop self-driving cars, but they are facing a wide range of technical and even cultural barriers. Advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) already are the most complex systems by far in modern cars, the best of which hover between Level 2 and Level 3 on the five-step autonomy ladder maintained by the Society of Automotiv... » read more

Pros, Cons Of ML-Specific Chips

By Ed Sperling - 27 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Rob Aitken, an Arm fellow; Raik Brinkmann, CEO of OneSpin Solutions; Patrick Soheili, vice president of business and corporate development at eSilicon; and Chris Rowen, CEO of Babblelabs. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. To view part one, click here. Part two is here. SE: Is the industry's knowledge of machine learning keeping up with th... » read more

Will FPGAs Work As Expected?

By Ed Sperling - 27 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 1

OneSpin Solutions’ Muhammed Haque Khan, product specialist for synthesis verification, digs into equivalence checking in FPGA designs and what can go wrong with FPGA designs. https://youtu.be/RFlP2Z_-Yqs » read more

Where ML Works Best

By Ed Sperling - 26 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Anirudh Devgan, president of Cadence, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss machine learning inside and outside of EDA tools and how that will affect the future of chip and system design. What follows are excerpts of that discussion. SE: How do you see the market and use of machine learning shaping up? Devgan: There are three main areas—machine learning inside, machine lear... » read more

FPGAs Drive Deeper Into Cars

By Ann Mutschler - 09 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 3

FPGAs are reaching deeper and wider inside of automobiles, playing an increasingly important role across more systems within a vehicle as the electronic content continues to grow. The role of FPGAs in automotive cameras and sensors is already well established. But they also are winning sockets inside of a raft of new technologies, ranging from the AI systems that will become the central logi... » read more

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