eetimes.com, Dec. 22, 2019 –
Acquisitions, Markets and Startups Galore
The AI accelerator hardware segment has been quite an exciting place to be this year. The landscape is continuing to evolve with startups popping up in every vertical market to take on the incumbents. While it may be too early to assess whether we've seen a true giant-killer just yet, the picture gets more and more interesting as the various novel architectures are unveiled.
Here are our top 5 pivotal events in the AI accelerator hardware sector that will continue to reverberate into 2020 and beyond.
AI Comes to Tiny Edge Devices
In July, the inaugural meeting of the TinyML group marked the emergence of a nascent industry segment – software and hardware for AI in ultra-low power devices. The TinyML group describes its focus as machine learning (ML) approaches that consume 1mW or less, which is the threshold for always-on applications in smartphones.