Image Source: Visual China In the early hours of August 6, NVIDIA published a lengthy statement on its Chinese website and other channels, stating that there are no backdoors, kill switches, or monitoring software in NVIDIA chips. “These are certainly not ways to build a trustworthy system, and they never will be.” NVIDIA indicated in … Read more
1. Heterogeneous Computing Units: The Collaborative Logic of the Car’s “Brain” 1. What is Heterogeneous Computing? The “heterogeneous computing” in automotive SoC chips refers to the integration of multiple processing units (such as CPU, GPU, AI accelerators, etc.) within the same chip, collaborating to meet the diverse needs of vehicles—from real-time control (like braking) to … Read more
On April 21, news emerged that AI chip company Tenstorrent held the opening ceremony of its Tokyo office on the 17th of this month. The company’s CEO and renowned chip designer Jim Keller attended the event in Japan and also visited its partner Rapidus located in Hokkaido. During a press conference, Jim Keller stated that … Read more
For most System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, the most critical task is not RTL coding, nor is it creating the chip architecture. Nowadays, SoCs are primarily designed by assembling various silicon Intellectual Property (IP) modules from multiple vendors. This makes managing silicon IP a major task in the design process. Generally speaking, in new SoC designs, less … Read more
Introduction:The new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation driven by artificial intelligence, represented by large models, is developing deeply, presenting immense opportunities and disruptive challenges across various industries. In the industrial sector, artificial intelligence is a key variable in advancing new industrialization, and the implementation of industrial large models will provide new pathways for … Read more
At the Intel Innovation conference, Intel introduced the Meteor Lake processor, which includes an AI inference acceleration unit: NPU. What is the significance of this for PCs? In this article, we will discuss the NPU (Neural Processing Unit) of Meteor Lake. This series of articles also includes an introduction to the key technologies of Meteor … Read more
(Source: techspot) Today, hardware and software applications for artificial intelligence have evolved into systems designed specifically to optimize AI and neural network operations. This includes Neural Processing Units (NPU), whose capabilities in accelerating AI tasks are often comparable to those of Graphics Processing Units (GPU). NPUs are increasingly common hardware designed to execute cutting-edge AI/machine … Read more
What does “NPU” stand for? What can it do? Here’s what you need to know about this emerging technology. In the past year, there has been increasing discussion about Neural Processing Units (NPUs). Although NPUs have appeared in smartphones for several years, Intel, AMD, and more recently Microsoft have launched consumer laptops and PCs equipped … Read more
The Huawei Kirin 970 opened the era of AI in smartphones with its integrated NPU neural network unit, but this NPU was not developed by Huawei itself; it came from the AI unicorn Cambrian Technology’s A1 processor IP. This year, Cambrian Technology released the latest AI 1M processor IP, while Huawei introduced the Kirin 980, … Read more
2024 is destined to be an extraordinary year for the AI industry. Although we have just entered March, AI news has already repeatedly occupied the headlines. Last month, OpenAI released the text-generating video model Sora, whose realistic effects have directly cleared the market for entrepreneurs struggling in this niche. A few days later, Nvidia’s market … Read more