GPU Enables Surround View In Automotive Domain Controller


In recent years, the capabilities of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have flourished. Nearly half of all car sales in the USA offer Level 2 capabilities (such as lane keeping and adaptive cruise control) or higher, and China is pushing the market further towards Level 3 (conditional automation with driver oversight) and beyond. The advanced functionality offered by these ADAS and a... » read more

Today’s Screen Culture Puts Higher Pressure On Display Chips


Just as cathode ray tube technology has been relegated to specialist industrial and medical settings, OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is overtaking LCD (liquid crystal display) in some applications due to its superior image quality and contrast. But OLED is not a one-size-fits-all. An array of new technologies is being developed to meet consumer demand for better, brighter screens with h... » read more

GPU Driver Update Adds Support For Additional Vulkan And OpenCL Extensions


Here are some of the highlights of what has been updated in the latest Imagination GPU Linux and Android Driver Development Kits: Leveraging cooperative matrix in Vulkan To help accelerate graphics post-processing, neural shaders, physics simulations, and machine learning inference on the GPU, DDK 25.2 implements support for VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix. This extension provides Vulkan developers... » read more

How Fast A GPU Do You Need For Your User Interface?


Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are common across all walks of life, from your smartphones to your TVs and even in your cars. Over the past decade, their complexity has evolved, moving from a simple background with basic icons into beautiful device differentiators, with 3D elements and micro-interactions that enhance the experience: shifting the perception when a phone tilts, or providing an... » read more

Cloud vs. Edge Gaming: Performance Gap Is Shrinking


Chip designers and gaming companies are scrambling to figure out whether the gaming market will tilt toward the cloud, the edge, or some combination of both. Multi-gigabit internet allows more people to play high-end games in the cloud, but edge-based gaming consoles and devices remain well-rooted, more secure, and private. Which one wins? So far, there are more questions than answers. Handh... » read more

Solving The Mixed Criticality Challenge In Automotive Controllers


Car users want immersive and interactive in-vehicle experiences, especially as autonomous driving technology takes over more of our driving responsibilities. To satisfy this demand, automotive manufacturers are deploying multiple display environments in their cars, from cockpits to heads-up displays and from central infotainment screens to rear-seat entertainment. All of these displays are powe... » read more

Shrinking LLMs With Self-Compression


Language models are becoming ever larger, making on-device inference slow and energy-intensive. A direct and surprisingly effective remedy is to prune complete channels whose contribution to the task is negligible. Our earlier work introduced a training-time procedure – Self-Compression [1, 4] – that lets back-propagation decide the bit-width of every channel, so unhelpful ones fade away. T... » read more

AR/VR Glasses Taking Shape With New Chips


More augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) wearables are coming, but how they are connected, and where image and other data is processed, are still in flux. Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, for example, look like classic eyeglasses, but they rely on a tethered smart phone for such functions as taking pictures, AI voice assistance, and object identification. In contrast... » read more

A New Era Of Edge AI: E-Series GPU IP


Welcome to the Age of Parallel Compute The age of parallel compute has arrived. The emergence of artificial intelligence is having profound implications on hardware development in every single market. Data centres are being built with massive compute resources to handle the demands of training and connected inference. At the edge, embedded hardware system designers are dealing with the chal... » read more

Extra Safety Measures Needed For Aerospace ICs


Aerospace safety requirements and standards vary depending on whether a spacecraft is manned or unmanned, and how crucial the mission is. The defense contractors designing these spacecraft take various approaches to functional safety based on how critical a component is for the mission to succeed. While losing a few images during an Earth-bound observation may not matter, losing a satellite ... » read more

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