Narrow AI vs. General AI vs. Super AI

Narrow AI vs. General AI vs. Super AI
by Ahmed Banafa on 03-22-2023 at 10:00 am

Narrow AI vs. General AI vs. Super AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term used to describe machines that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. AI is classified into three main types: Narrow AI, General AI, and Super AI. Each type of AI has its unique… Read More


10 Impactful Technologies in 2023 and Beyond

10 Impactful Technologies in 2023 and Beyond
by Ahmed Banafa on 01-25-2023 at 10:00 am

10 Impactful Technologies in 2023 and Beyond

There are many exciting technologies that are expected to shape the future, the following are some of the technologies that will impact our lives in the coming 5 years at different levels and depth:

Generative AI, also known as generative artificial intelligence, is a type of #AI that is designed to generate new content or data … Read More


Analog to Digital Converter Circuits for Communications, AI and Automotive

Analog to Digital Converter Circuits for Communications, AI and Automotive
by Daniel Payne on 12-29-2022 at 6:00 am

RF Data Converters, analog to digital converter, min

Sensors are inherently analog in nature, and they get digitized for processing by using an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) block. At the recent IP SoC event I had the chance to see the presentation by Ken Potts, COO of Alphacore on their semiconductor IP for ADCs. I learned that Alphacore started out in 2012, now offering both standard… Read More


Podcast EP130: Alphawave IP’s Rise in the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Tony Pialis

Podcast EP130: Alphawave IP’s Rise in the Semiconductor Ecosystem with Tony Pialis
by Daniel Nenni on 12-09-2022 at 10:00 am

Tony Pialis, co-founder and CEO of Alphawave, a global leader in high-speed connectivity IP enabling industries such as AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G, hyperscale data centers, and more. He is the former VP of Analog and Mixed-Signal IP at Intel and has co-founded three semiconductor IP companies, including Snowbush Microelectronics… Read More


Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU IP Blends NPU and DSP to Create a New Category of Hybrid SoC Processor

Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU IP Blends NPU and DSP to Create a New Category of Hybrid SoC Processor
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-01-2022 at 10:00 am

Memory Optimization Equals Power Minimization

Performance, Power and Area (PPA) are the commonly touted metrics in the semiconductor industry placing PPA among the most widely used acronyms relating to chip development. And rightly so as these three metrics greatly impact all electronic products that are developed. The degree of impact depends of course on the specific … Read More


Podcast EP113: How Samtec is Enabling AI Growth in the Cloud and at the Edge with Matt Burns

Podcast EP113: How Samtec is Enabling AI Growth in the Cloud and at the Edge with Matt Burns
by Daniel Nenni on 10-14-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Mattew Burns, Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries.

Dan and Matt discuss the recent AI Hardware Summit… Read More


Podcast EP111: How sureCore is Fueling the AI Revolution With Tony Stansfield

Podcast EP111: How sureCore is Fueling the AI Revolution With Tony Stansfield
by Daniel Nenni on 10-07-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Tony Stansfield, sureCore’s CTO. Tony has over 35 years of semiconductor industry experience in a variety of technical roles. He is cited as an inventor on 23 patents covering SRAM, CAM, low-power electronics, and programmable logic.

Improving the Efficiency of AI Applications Using In-Memory ComputationRead More


Intellectual Abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Intellectual Abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
by Ahmed Banafa on 09-18-2022 at 4:00 pm

Intellectual abilities of artificial intelligence AI

To understand AI’s capabilities and abilities we need to recognize the different components and subsets of AI. Terms like Neural Networks, Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning, need to be define and explained.

In general, Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed… Read More


Podcast EP107: The Impact of Arteris IP and Its Partnerships on the Automotive Industry and Beyond

Podcast EP107: The Impact of Arteris IP and Its Partnerships on the Automotive Industry and Beyond
by Daniel Nenni on 09-16-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer for Arteris IP. Arteris provides network-on-chip interconnect semiconductor IP and deployment technology to accelerate SoC development and integration for a wide range of applications from AI to automobiles, mobile phones, IoT, cameras, SSD controllers, and servers.… Read More


An EDA AI Master Class by Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus

An EDA AI Master Class by Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus
by Daniel Nenni on 08-19-2022 at 8:00 am

Aart de Geus White House

I consider Dr. Aart de Geus one of the founding fathers of EDA and one of the most interesting people in the semiconductor industry. So it is not a surprise that Aart was chosen to attend the CHIPs Act signing at the White House.

Here is his current corporate bio:

Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Dr. Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys… Read More