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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.5: Latest Trends in Non-Volatile FPGAs

Hello everyone, I’m Haruyuki Tago, Edge Evangelist at HACARUS Tokyo R&D Center. In this series of articles, I will share some insights from my decades long experience in the semiconductor industry and comment on different AI industry related topics from my unique perspective. Today let’s talk about the latest trends in the field of non-volatile FPGAs.   NV-FPGA Initiative – Public Symposium On January 8th, 2021, a public symposium was held by Non-Volatile Field-Programmable Gate Array (NV-FPGA) Initiative, one of…

Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol4: Why is the Apple M1 processor so fast?

Hello everyone, I’m Haruyuki Tago, Edge Evangelist at HACARUS Tokyo R&D Center. In this series of articles, I will share some insights from my decades long experience in the semiconductor industry and comment on different AI industry related topics from my unique perspective.   Today, I would like to talk about the M1 processor by Apple, which is used in Apple's various products - including MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini announced in November 2020. Many professionals have already…

Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol2: NVIDIA Ampere takes advantage of deep learning sparsity

Hello everyone, I’m Haruyuki Tago, Edge Evangelist at HACARUS Tokyo R&D Center. In this series of articles, I will share some insights from my decades long experience in the semiconductor industry and comment on different AI industry related topics from my unique perspective. You can read the Vol1 of the series by clinking the link. Today, I would like to talk about NVIDIA Ampere. In May 2020, NVIDIA unveiled some new products such as the NVIDIA Ampere architecture and its product…

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol3: AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx

Hello, I’m Haruyuki Tago, Edge Evangelist at HACARUS Tokyo R&D Center. In this series of articles, I will share some insights from my decades long experience in the semiconductor industry and comment on different AI industry related topics from my unique perspective. You can read the Vol1 and Vol2 of the series by clinking the links. Today, I would like to talk about the big news, which is the acquisition of Xilinx from semiconductor maker AMD [1] [2]. I will…