Part III: The evolution to AI GPUs
CUDA, Tensor Cores, and NPUs rewrote computing history.
China builds exascale supercomputer without GPUs
Homegrown LX2 processors power China’s exascale independence play.
RISC-V becomes AI hardware’s open foundation
Three integration tracks move RISC-V beyond CPU control.
IBM’s latest AI processor is GPU-free
It does have 32 NPUs, however.
Socionext’s custom XPU and AI data center chiplet platform
Partners up with Arm’s CPU.
Fujitsu joins the AIP crowd with an NPU
Targeted at inference servers using advanced Japanese semi production.
SemiFive NPU plus SoC design
SemiFive is a custom AI ASIC platform house.
Google Coral NPU used by Synaptics
Designed for multimodal device inference AI applications.
TI integrates TinyEngine NPU across MCU portfolio
Mixed-signal microcontrollers with TinyEngine NPU.
AIP supplier Ambiq Micro reveals technical details on Atomiq
Nanometers and millivolts-powered NPU.
Interview with Steve Roddy, chief marketing officer, Quadric, Inc.
Quadric’s bet on software-first NPUs starts to pay off.
$30 million more invested in AIP start-ups
Quadric gets the latest injection, but far from last.