This article is part of the TechXchange: TinyML: Machine Learning for Small Platforms. Arm is pumping up its ambitions for on-device AI. The world’s largest semiconductor IP vendor rolled out its ...

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Arm and Qualcomm are at loggerheads and in court, which could have some interesting implications for the future of CPU design. The phrase “big company” is somewhat relative in the context of consumer ...

It's no secret that general-purpose compute performance has been largely stuck in idle these last few years, with top-end improvements limited to single-digit increases. DARPA has a plan for ...

A new technical paper titled “QiMeng: Fully Automated Hardware and Software Design for Processor Chip” was published by researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Processor chip design technology ...

As the larger automotive industry shifts its emphasis to software, NXP rolled out its first real-time, high- performance 5-nm SoC that can run more of this software safely, reliably, and securely. NXP ...

Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. The reason is ...