An international effort to assess artificial intelligence compute capacity and help governments make informed AI infrastructure investments is the focus of an online workshop hosted by Silicon Integration Initiative, January 29, 8:00-10:00 am PST.
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Synaptics Expands into Low Power Edge AI Applications with New Katana Platform
Synaptics Incorporated, today announced the Katana Edge AI platform, addressing a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets.
CEA-Leti Scientists Present In-Memory Computing Pathways for Edge-AI & Neural Networks with 3D Architectures & Resistive-RAM
CEA-Leti presented two papers this week at IEDM 2020 that confirm the advantages of combining 3D architectures and resistive-random-access-memories (RRAM) for in-memory computing (IMC), and their applications for Edge-AI and neural networks.
Industry Strategy Symposium to Lead Microelectronics Into New Era of Innovation
SEMI announced today that the virtual Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) 2021 will take place January 12-13 with the theme Bridging the Gap Between the Physical and Digital Worlds.
Eta Compute Closes $12.5 Million Series C Funding Led by Synaptics
Eta Compute Inc., the leader in energy-efficient endpoint AI solutions for intelligent sensing anywhere, announced it closed its Series C funding of $12.5 million, bringing the company’s total funds raised to $31.9 million. The round was led by Synaptics Incorporated along with participation from existing investors. Satish Ganesan, Chief Strategy Officer at Synaptics will join the Eta Compute Board of Directors.
Artificial Visual System of Record-Low Energy Consumption for the Next Generation of AI
A joint research led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has built an ultralow-power consumption artificial visual system to mimic the human brain, which successfully performed data-intensive cognitive tasks. Their experiment results could provide a promising device system for the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Intel, Microsoft, IBM Technologists Elected to Si2 OpenAccess Coalition Leadership Posts
Raymond Rodriguez, director of Strategic CAD Capabilities at Intel, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the Silicon Integration Initiative OpenAccess Coalition board of directors.
Blaize Delivers First Open and Code-free AI Software Platform Spanning the Entire Edge AI Application Lifecycle
Blaize today fully unveiled the Blaize AI Studio offering, the industry’s first open and code-free software platform to span the complete edge AI operational workflow from idea to development, deployment and management.
BrainChip Ships Akida Evaluation Boards
BrainChip Holdings Ltd, a provider of ultra-low power high performance artificial intelligence technology, today provides the following update on the on the shipment of the Company’s evaluation boards for the Akida Neuromophic System-on-Chip (NSoC).
Cartesiam Transforms Edge AI Development for Industrial IoT
Cartesiam announced the availability of NanoEdge AI Studio V2, the first integrated development environment (IDE) that simplifies creation of machine learning, inference, and now classification libraries for direct implementation on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs).
