Posts tagged AI
Synopsys To Advance Software Defined Vehicles Via PikeTec Acquistion
Synopsys To Advance Software Defined Vehicles Via PikeTec Acquistion

The digitization of the modern car or truck has kicked into high gear over the past few years, from Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Infotainment systems, to ECUs for engine control, PCMs for powertrain control, and more. It’s against the backdrop of this major growth trajectory that EDA (Electronic Design Automation) semiconductor tools bellwether, Synopsys, stepped out today to announce the acquisition of German automotive software testing and verification house PikeTec GmbH, for an undisclosed sum.

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Dave AltavillaSynopsys, AIComment
Qualcomm Leads Charge With On-Device AI
Qualcomm Leads Charge With On-Device AI

Qualcomm was able to get Stable Diffusion running on a hand-held device without internet connectivity, by optimizing and scaling the AI model down to run on more efficient INT8 (8-bit integer) precision operations, rather than the larger, more complex FP32 (32-bit floating point) operations that were used to train the model. The result is that for inference (running the model to accurately create the image and inferring details from text), the Stable Diffusion model was shrunk dramatically, or quantized, to a fraction of its size with little to no degradation in accuracy, but with significantly better performance on a low-power Snapdragon AI accelerator (Qualcomm Hexagon Processor) with much less storage and memory bandwidth required.

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Dave AltavillaQualcomm, AIComment
AMD Xilinx Unveils Alveo MA35D Accelerator To Tackle The Demands Of Next-Gen Interactive Digital Content
AMD Xilinx Unveils Alveo MA35D Accelerator To Tackle The Demands Of Next-Gen Interactive Digital Content

Some estimates claim the global video streaming market was valued at over $89 billion in 2022, with expectations that it would expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.5% between now 2030. As the industry expands, the demand for servers and appliances purpose-built to handle the workloads and optimize for latency, bandwidth, density and power will commensurately expand as well.

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Marco ChiappettaAMD, Xilinx, Cloud, AIComment
Synopsys Expands Its AI-Powered EDA Chip Design Tool Suite To Overcome Systemic Complexity
Synopsys Expands Its AI-Powered EDA Chip Design Tool Suite To Overcome Systemic Complexity

At its longstanding SNUG (Synopsys Users Group) Conference, currently underway at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, Synopsys unveiled powerful additions to its AI-enhanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools suite, with new solutions for functional verification and silicon testing, aptly named Synopsys VSO.ai and Synopsys TSO.ai, respectively. VSO.ai and TSO.ai join the company’s existing DSO.ai to complete what Synopsys is calling Synopsys.ai for chip design.

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Marco ChiappettaSynopsys, AIComment
NVIDIA cuLitho Computational Lithography Massively Accelerates Chip Design Using GPUs
NVIDIA cuLitho Computational Lithography Massively Accelerates Chip Design Using GPUs

While virtually all of the industry is buzzing about AI, accelerated computing and AI powerhouse NVIDIA has just announced a new software library, called cuLitho, that promises an exponential acceleration in chip design development times, as well as reduced chip fab data center carbon footprint and the ability to push the boundaries of bleeding-edge semiconductor design. In fact, NVIDIA cuLitho has already been adopted by the world’s top chip foundry, TSMC, leading EDA chip design tools company Synopsys and chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML.

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Dave AltavillaNVIDIA, AI, Lithography, CuLitho, GPUComment
Synopsys AI Chip Design Hits Major Milestone With Azure Cloud, STMicro And SK Hynix
Synopsys AI Chip Design Hits Major Milestone With Azure Cloud, STMicro And SK Hynix

Machine Learning, or what the industry generally refers to as AI, has permeated many industries as a driving force that enables new-found capability and performance, such that it appears as though nearly everything is going “smart.” As I reported in September, even semiconductor chip design itself is being optimized with AI, and it’s making big strides in design efficiency for next-gen chip tech. Electronic Design Automation tools (EDA) bellwether, Synopsys, recently chalked up its 100th AI-designed chip tape-out with top industry players like STMicroelectronics, SK Hynix and Microsoft stepping out in endorsement of the company’s DSO.ai.

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Dave AltavillaAI, SynopsysComment
Synopsys To Play A Key Role In Enabling Intel Foundry Services For US DOD Chip Program
Synopsys To Play A Key Role In Enabling Intel Foundry Services For US DOD Chip Program

Late last year, the US Department of Defense (DOD) put in motion a program called RAMP-C (Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial). The goal of this program is to help create state-of-the-art commercial semiconductor design, foundry and fabrication services with access for critical DOD systems and infrastructure. In the process, the US DOD awarded Intel an agreement to provide commercial chip foundry services in the first phase of this program. In-turn Intel Foundry Services (IFS) will be working with key partners such as Synopsys.

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Dave AltavillaSynopsys, AI, Intel, FabComment
Top Technology Titans That Shaped The Landscape In 2019
Top Technology Titans That Shaped The Landscape In 2019

Even if you’re not a tech analyst, enthusiast or hyper-connected geek that follows the industry, it was obvious that we’ve achieved major technology milestones in 2019, and the pace of innovation is now accelerating dramatically and in some areas exponentially. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was perhaps the hallmark of technological advancement this year, with its amazing potential that’s both exciting and perhaps even frightening to some.

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Dave AltavillaAI, Top Tech, AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, DellComment