AI

A number of Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and HiSilicon,  are bringing out AI ICs but their competitiveness is likely to be impeded by  the US restrictions on supplies of EDA, chip manufacturing equipment and personnel, reports TrendForce. HiSilicon’s Ascend 910B is used  in Huawei’s public cloud infrastructure as well as being sold outside,  and  Baidu ordered over ...

Combining AI with thermal imaging can ‘flesh out’ pedestrians to improve automotive safety systems at day and by night, says Wade Appelman of Owl Autonomous Imaging. Why are automotive manufacturers interested in a technology that combines expensive, cumbersome thermal imaging and complex, computer-hungry AI to solve a straightforward problem such as pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB)? The answer is because ...

Synopsys is expanding its Synopsys.ai EDA suite to bring GenAI across the full stack  to  improve engineering productivity for the semiconductor industry. This expands upon Synopsys’ recent announcement to deliver Synopsys.ai Copilot, the first in a series of GenAI capabilities for chip design. Early collaborations with AMD, Intel, and Microsoft have substantiated the power of generative AI for chip design. ...

Vladimir Putin is about issue a decree setting out Russia’s AI development strategy, he told an AI conference in Moscow at the weekend. The strategy will involve legal changes, international cooperation and more investment. “In the very near future, as one of the first steps, a presidential decree will be signed and a new version of the national strategy for ...

Synopsys and Microsoft have developed Synopsys.ai Copilot which designs ICs for the Azure Open AI Service. Synopsys.ai is an AI-driven EDA suite. Azure OpenAI Service gives access to OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) with the enterprise-ready capabilities of Microsoft Azure. Together, the companies collaborated to support Synopsys’ development of Synopsys.ai Copilot, bringing together Azure OpenAI Service generative AI capabilities with ...

NVIDIA has introduced an AI foundry service to supercharge the development and tuning of custom generative AI applications for enterprises and startups deploying on Microsoft Azure. The NVIDIA AI foundry service pulls together three elements — a collection of NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, NVIDIA NeMo framework and tools, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing services — that give enterprises an end-to-end ...

The emerging market for AI PCs does not yet have a clear definition, says TrendForce. One the software side, Microsoft has launched its AI assistant, Copilot, which is powered by the GPT LLM, with sales starting in November. This service, requiring Windows 11, is available for $30 per month. On the hardware side, the focus for CPU manufacturers is to ...

Alif Semiconductor’s 32bit ‘Ensemble’ AI-enabled MCUs are now available, according to the company. Built around various Arm cores with added security to protect stored intellectual property, they are intended to run AI algorithms locally in battery-powered devices. “There are many Edge ML applications that require 50 to 250Gop/s to become useful,” said Alif marketing v-p Mark Rootz. “Typical 32bit MCUs ...

Kuva Space, the Earth observation company, has raised €16.6m in series A funding. It will be used accelerate the development of its patented hyperspectral camera, double its team size, and launch its AI analytics platform. Kuva also says it plans to expand its presence in “key markets” beginning with the United States. The funding round was led by existing investors ...

Delvitech is proud to announce and show a new generation of Automated Optical Inspection systems for the electronic and mechanical manufacturing. Electronic assembly process is moving towards more and more hidden complexity. Varied shaped parts increasing difficulties related to shadows, large components with small pins, high components with short pins, continuous changeover in production due to parts availability, mix of ...