Neural Networks
Today Arm is announcing four new products in its NPU, GPU and DPU portfolio. The company is branding its in-house machine learning processor IPs the Ethos line-up detailing more the existing N77 piece and also revealing the smaller N57 and N37 siblings in the family. To top things off, the company is also making ready its first mid-range GPU IP based on the brand-new Valhall architecture, the new Mali-G57. Finally, we’re seeing the release of a new mid-range DPU in the form of the Mali-D37. Introducing the Ethos NPU Family Arm’s NPU IP offering was first announced early last year, detailing its architecture a few months later, and has been publicly been known until known just as “the Arm Machine Learning processor”. Arm at TechCon this...
CEVA Announces NeuPro-S Second-Generation NN IP
It’s been a few years since machine learning and neural networks first started to be the hot new news topic. Ever since then, the market has transformed a lot...
5 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/17/2019
The AI Race Expands: Qualcomm Reveals “Cloud AI 100” Family of Datacenter AI Inference Accelerators for 2020
This morning at their first AI Day, the 800lb gorilla of the mobile world, Qualcomm announced that they are getting into the AI accelerator market, and in an aggressive...
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Imagination Goes Further Down the AI Rabbit Hole, Unveils PowerVR Series3NX Neural Network Accelerator
After Imagination first announced their PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) last September, it has become a key part in their ambitions for AI and neural networks on the...
1 by Nate Oh on 12/4/2018
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series9XTP, Series9XMP, and Series9XEP GPU Cores
When Imagination first announced their PowerVR Furian architecture, it was only a month before they announced Apple was to phase out their use of Imagination's GPU IP. The state...
6 by Nate Oh on 12/4/2018
Cadence Announces The Tensilica DNA 100 IP: Bigger Artificial Intelligence
Cadence is an industry player we don’t mention nearly enough as much as we should - they make a lot of IP and specialises in accelerator blocks which augment...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/19/2018
Huawei’s GPU Turbo: Valid Technology with Overzealous Marketing
One of the biggest announcements from Huawei this year is that of its new GPU Turbo technology. The claims that it could provide more performance at less power, without...
64 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 9/4/2018
Hot Chips 2018: Arm's Machine Learning Core Live Blog
Arm officially announced Project Trillium earlier this year, as a way to bring machine learning to the Arm ecosystem. As part of the trade show today, we have a...
3 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018
Khronos Group Releases Neural Network Exchange Format 1.0, Showcases First Public OpenXR Demo
Today at SIGGRAPH the Khronos Group, the industry consortium behind OpenGL and Vulkan, announced the ratification and public release of their Neural Network Exchange Format (NNEF), now finalized as...
8 by Nate Oh on 8/14/2018
The NVIDIA Titan V Deep Learning Deep Dive: It's All About The Tensor Cores
When we last discussed the NVIDIA Titan V in our preview, it was only a few weeks after its surprise launch at NIPS 2017. We came away with the...
65 by Nate Oh on 7/3/2018
Imagination Announces First PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator Cores: AX2185 and AX2145
Since Imagination’s original announcement of the PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) last fall, the machine learning and AI “hype train” has not paused in the slightest. For the...
4 by Nate Oh on 6/8/2018
ARM Details "Project Trillium" Machine Learning Processor Architecture
Arm first announced Project Trillium machine learning IPs back in February and we were promised we’d be hearing more about the product in a few months’ time. Project Trillium...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/22/2018
Google Announces Cloud TPU v2 Beta Availability for Google Cloud Platform
This week, Google announced Cloud TPU beta availability on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through their Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service. Using the second generation of Google’s tensor processing units...
8 by Nate Oh on 2/15/2018
Ambarella at CES 2018: Announcing CV1 and CV22 SoCs with CVflow CNN engines
At CES 2018 in Las Vegas we had the pleasure to attend Ambarella’s booth tour demonstrating the newest products in camera SoC solutions. Ambarella to date is most widely...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/15/2018
CEVA Announces NeuPro Neural Network IP
Ahead of CES CEVA today announced a new specialised neural network accelerator IP called NeuPro. We’ve over the last few months seen an explosion of news related to “AI” and...
12 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/5/2018
The NVIDIA Titan V Preview - Titanomachy: War of the Titans
Today we're taking a preview look at NVIDIA's new compute accelerator and video card, the $3000 NVIDIA Titan V. In Greek mythology Titanomachy was the war of the Titans...
113 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 12/20/2017
Khronos Group Launches the Neural Network Exchange Format
Today the Khronos Group, the industry consortium behind OpenGL and Vulkan, released a v1.0 provisional specification for its Neural Network Exchange Format (NNEF). First announced last year, this provisional...
8 by Nate Oh on 12/20/2017
NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan V" Video Card: GV100 for $3000, On Sale Now
Out of nowhere, NVIDIA has revealed the NVIDIA Titan V today at the 2017 Neural Information Processing Systems conference, with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang flashing out the card on stage...
160 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 12/7/2017
Intel Shipping Nervana Neural Network Processor First Silicon Before Year End
This week at the Wall Street Journal’s D.Live 2017, Intel unveiled their Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP), formerly known as Lake Crest, and announced plans to ship first silicon...
25 by Nate Oh on 10/18/2017
GTC Europe: NVIDIA Keynote Live Blog (10am CEST, 9am UTC)
Stay tuned for coverage of NVIDIA's Keynote at GTC Europe. Heading up the presentation is NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang. GTC Europe is now NVIDIA's key automotive event due to...
11 by Ian Cutress on 10/10/2017
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