EE Times’ Special Report 2.22.2022
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50 and Green: EE Times and the IC Industry
EE Times is turning 50 in 2022. We published our first issue only a few months after Intel ushered in the modern computing era with the introduction of the first microprocessor in November of 1971. This newspaper provided front-line reporting from the original microprocessor wars. We subsequently pioneered reporting of embedded computing, and of artificial intelligence, and more – covering one transformative trend after another.
AlphaICs Begins Sampling Its Deep Learning Co-Processor
The Gluon co-processor is touted as delivering 8 TOPS edge AI inference performance in a 16nm FinFET process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Figures released by AlphaICs indicate frames-per-second (fps)/watt performance for classification and detection of neural networks at 32 fps/watt for the Yolo-V2 object detection model, and 22 fps/watt for the VGG-19 classification model.
Intel Bets on Blockchain
Does blockchain have a future beyond selling digital NFT trinkets like Melania Trump’s watercolors and short video clips of great moments in sports? Intel says yes. In his recent online editorial titled “Blockchain and the New Custom Compute Group,” Intel’s senior vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Raja Koduri, announced that Intel has created a new accelerator group called the “Custom Compute Group” and will be shipping a custom blockchain accelerator designed by this group later this year. Why is this a big deal?
