Machine learning

AI Alone Isn’t Ready for Chip Design

November 21, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Chip design has come a long way since 1971, when Federico Faggin finished sketching the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, using little more than a straightedge and colored pencils. Today’s designers have a plethora of software tools at their disposal to plan and test new integrated circuits. But as…

November 10, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Finished chips coming in from the foundry are subject to a battery of tests. For those destined for critical systems in cars, those tests are particularly extensive and can add 5 to 10 percent to the cost of a chip. But do you really need to do every single test?Engineers…

September 25, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

For the first time, scientists have created a flexible programmable chip that is not made of silicon. The new ultralow-power 32-bit microprocessor from U.K.-based Pragmatic Semiconductor and its colleagues can operate while bent, and can run machine learning workloads. The microchip’s open-source RISC-V architecture suggests it might cost less than…

September 18, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.The rise of social media use is impacting society—and not always in a good way, with increasing instances of malicious behavior online, such as coordinated campaigns to spread disinformation. To address this issue, a group…

September 13, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The software used to control a robot is normally highly adapted to its specific physical set up. But now researchers have created a single general-purpose robotic control policy that can operate robotic arms, wheeled robots, quadrupeds, and even drones. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to applying machine…

June 12, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

As large supercomputers keep getting larger, Sunnyvale, California-based Cerebras has been taking a different approach. Instead of connecting more and more GPUs together, the company has been squeezing as many processors as it can onto one giant wafer. The main advantage is in the interconnects—by wiring processors together on-chip, the…

May 28, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This post was originally published on the author’s personal blog. Last year’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) was the biggest CoRL yet, with over 900 attendees, 11 workshops, and almost 200 accepted papers. While there were a lot of cool new ideas (see this great set of notes for an…

May 15, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Scientists have predicted that by 2040, almost 50 percent of the world’s electric power will be used in computing. What’s more, this projection was made before the sudden explosion of generative AI. The amount of computing resources used to train the largest AI models has been doubling roughly every 6…

19 Apr 24

Empower Your Supply Chain

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Xometry’s essential guide reveals the transformative power of artificial intelligence in supply chain optimisation. It lifts the lid on how machine learning, natural language processing, and big data, can streamline procurement and enhance operations efficiency. The guide showcases applications across various sectors such as healthcare, construction, retail, and more, offering…

15 Apr 24

15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Each year, the AI Index lands on virtual desks with a louder virtual thud—this year, its 393 pages are a testament to the fact that AI is coming off a really big year in 2023. For the past three years, IEEE Spectrum has read the whole damn thing and pulled…

AI Alone Isn’t Ready for Chip Design

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A Bendy RISC-V Processor

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One AI Model to Rule All Robots

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Will Scaling Solve Robotics?

How to Put a Data Center in a Shoebox

Empower Your Supply Chain

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