Why Openness Matters For AI At The Edge


AI continues to migrate towards the edge and is no longer confined to the data center. Edge AI brings several key advantages, delivering intelligence closer to where data is generated, improving latency for critical functions, ensuring privacy by limiting transmitted data, and reducing energy consumption for AI. Edge AI encompasses systems performing AI inferencing directly where data is cre... » read more

The Politics Of Standards


Standards often are seen as an industry coming together to agree upon a common solution to a common problem, but there are times when this could not be further from the truth. Having been involved in standards at all levels — from participant to chair for several standards — some were successful, some were not, some are seeing significant adoption while others are withering by the wayside, ... » read more

Khronos: Open Standards Powering The Future Of Embedded Vision


At the recent Embedded Vision Summit, one of the presentations was by Neil Trevett of The Khronos Group. This is a standardization body and is a non-profit. He said that his day job is at Nvidia. It has been creating standards for 20 years with a focus on low-level hardware acceleration APIs for 3D graphics, parallel computation, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and machine learnin... » read more

Open Source Vs. Commercial RISC-V Licensing Models


Everybody is familiar with commercial licensing from traditional processor IP vendors such as Arm, Cadence, and Synopsys. But in discussing the RISC-V Open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), there is widespread confusion of terminology with RISC-V often being described as “open source.” Some have even accused vendors of commercial RISC-V IP such as Codasip or Andes as not being in the spir... » read more