14+ hour, 23+ min ago  (135+ words) Launches a 60 TOPS RISC-V AI developer kit. Banana Pi also says the carrier board is hardware-compatible with Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano, a clever move. That does not make the platform a Jetson replacement overnight'software is the real moat'but it lowers…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (325+ words) AI reshapes design tools with data-driven automation and intelligence. AI is going to play a role in everything on earth. Naturally, it will play an even larger role in design, and it's interesting to watch the paths it is taking…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (108+ words) Architectures are evolving as fast as LLMs. Brain Chip Akida targets sub-milliwatt edge inference'wearables, sensors, Io T. For keyword spotting and gesture recognition at that power level, no GPU competes on energy per inference. That is not, however, the market Vera…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (157+ words) This is a fundamental shift. What do we think? This hybrid direction sits alongside broader industry pressure from alternative silicon strategies, including Google TPUs, Inferentia from Amazon Web Services, internal accelerators at Meta, and Maia 100 from Microsoft. These systems increasingly…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (335+ words) Offers new meaning to the term "tape-out." Bolt Graphics announced the tape-out of its Zeus GPU test chip, a milestone in the development of a compute platform designed to cut total cost of compute by up to 17across HPC, rendering, and…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (476+ words) Staying on-brand with agentic AI. Adobe's new offerings enable enterprises to harness the power of agentic AI at scale. (Source: Adobe) The clock is always ticking, and seemingly faster every minute that passes, for enterprise-level creation teams. Theirs is a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (626+ words) I wouldn't want one in my backyard. Amazon has about 150 data centers in the US, Google 25 (Google may have fewer sites than AWS, but each site is much larger), Meta has 35, Microsoft 60, Open AI 6, and x AI 3. All told, it…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (330+ words) Heterogeneous system combines GPUs, RDUs, and Xeon 6 CPUs. Figure 1. Samba Nova SN50 RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit " dual-chiplet design (5 nm) block diagram. (Source: JPR from Samba Nova information) The solution allows organizations to continue using their current GPU investments for the prefill…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (72+ words) Jon Peddie Research AI Vector Vision reframes computer vision Enjoy full access with a Tech Watch subscription! Tech Watch is the front line of JPR information gathering service, comprising current stories of interest to the graphics industry spanning the core…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (562+ words) New features span Premiere, After Effects, Firefly, and Frame. io, and at the center is AI. The new Color Mode in Adobe Premiere'professional-level color grading for editors. (Source: Adobe) It's April, meaning it's time for the Adobe Summit customer experience…...