Neuromorphic Computing to Assist Children Who Use Wheelchairs
Intel’s neuromorphic chip has learned to smell, learned to touch – and now, it’s here to help. The chip, which mimics the behavior of the human brain, is being ...Full Article
IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, ...Full Article
Photonics Processor Aimed at AI Inference
Silicon photonics is exhibiting greater innovation as requirements grow to enable faster, lower-power chip interconnects for traditionally power-hungry applications like AI inferencing. With that in mind, scientists at Massachusetts ...Full Article
AI/ML in Broadband Networks: the Role of Standards
Earlier this year a new initiative to create standards for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the cable telecommunications industry was launched. The working group, which draws ...Full Article
AI Chip Start-up Groq to Detail Technology Progress in Fall
AI chip startup Groq announced this week it had closed its most recent funding round, saying the new investments will help it double in size by the end of ...Full Article
US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships
As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed ...Full Article
‘Unified Platform’ Accelerates Air Force DevSecOps
The U.S. military’s embrace of Silicon Valley-style agile software development now extends to quick turn-around programming required to respond to evolving cyber threats. Among the earliest attempts to break ...Full Article
Op-Ed: Poor Countries Are Struggling to Industrialize Their Way to Growth – AI Can Help
While it is still too early to tell how severely COVID-19 will damage the world’s rich economies, some worry that the devastation will be far worse in poor ones, ...Full Article
IT Spending Remains Steady Despite Pandemic
Market forecasters continue to crunch the numbers to determine precisely how the pandemic will shape IT spending during a period of unprecedented uncertainty. Moreover, the need to adapt in ...Full Article
Implement Photonic Tensor Cores for Machine Learning?
Researchers from George Washington University have reported an approach for building photonic tensor cores that leverages phase change photonic memory to implement a neural network (NN). Their novel architecture, ...Full Article