CPUs, GPUs, and Now AI Chips
William G. Wong,
ElectronicDesign,
May 03, 2023
We begin this post with an article from 2017 and a background report from 2020 but reference a story that is breaking now in 2023: AI computer chips. Today we're looking at a veritable alphabet soup of specialized processors: Graphical Process Unit (GPU), Associative Process Unit (APU), Tensor Processing Unit / AI Chip (TPU), Field Programmable Gate Array (FGPA), Vision Processing Unit (VPU), and more.
The market leaders in this new hardware are companies like Alphabet (Google), Apple, ARM, Intel and Nvidia. They are contributing to AI chipsets for phones and laptop computers. In-phone AI manages everything from power management to image recognition to real-time translation. Some developments of note: AMD has developed a huge data centre APU and also its Ryzen 7040 puts an AI processor in a consumer CPU; Microsoft is developing its own AI-chips (called Athena), but lags behind market leaders. Related: AI Glossary.
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