NEWS & TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Globalfoundries aids launch of Chinese AI startup
EBy Peter Clarke nflame Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has
launched an artificial intelligence training product, the
Cloudblazer T10 dual-slot PCie AI accelerator card for
the data centre.
The card is based on Enflame’s Sisi so-called
deep thinking unit (DTU). Based on a reconfigurable
chip design approach, Enflame’s DTU
computing core features 32 scalable intelligent
processors, with 8 SIPs combined into 4 scalable
intelligent clusters (SICs). On-chip scheduling
algorithms move data to maximize SIP utilization
and the component is built on a 12nm FinFET process from
Globalfoundries Inc. with a total of 14.1 billion transistors in a
2.5D package.
The performance of the card is 20TFLOPS under single
precision (FP32); 80TFLOPS under half precision and mixed
precision (BF16/FP16), and the maximum power consumption
is 225W.
Support is provided for common artificial training models
such as CNN, RNN, LSTM, BERT, which can
be used for training scenarios such as image,
streaming data, and speech.
“At present we have worked closely with
Tencent’s projects for general artificial intelligence
application scenarios, and will also
expand to more AI application scenarios in
the future,” said Zhao Lidong, CEO of Enflame
Technology
Enflame’s AI accelerator SoC, DTU on Globalfoundries’ 12LP
platform has been sampled and production is scheduled for
early 2020 in Globalfon Fab 8 in Malta, New York. The Cludblazer
T10 will be available in the first quarter of 2020.
Intel pays $2 billion for AI chip firm
ABy Peter Clarke s expected, Intel has acquired Habana Labs Ltd. (Caeserea,
Israel), a developer of deep learning
accelerators for the data centre. The purchase
price is approximately $2 billion, Intel said.
The move boosts Intel’s position in the AI silicon
market, a market which Intel expects to be worth
$25 billion in 2024. Intel added that the market for
AI silicon in the data centre would be worth about
$10 billion in the same year. Intel said it expects its
own AI-based revenue to be more than $3.5 billion in 2019 up
20 percent year-over-year.
Habana brings to Intel a dedicated training processor called
Gaudi and an inference processor called Goya. Intel Capital has
been keeping tabs on Habana and led a $75 million series B
round which has contributed to more than $120
million raised by Habana since its formation in
2016.
Habana will remain an independent business
unit and will continue to be led by its current
management team. Habana will report to Intel’s
Data Platforms Group. Habana will continue to
be based in Israel.
Habana’s Gaudi AI Training Processor is sampling. Largenode
training systems based on Gaudi are expected to deliver
up to a fourfold increase in throughput versus systems built with
the equivalent number of GPUs.
Here comes a 77GHz CMOS radar transceiver from China
By SPeter Clarke hanghai startup Calterah Semiconductor
Technology has rolled out its second
generation of 77GHz CMOS radar system
chip for autonomous driving applications.
The Alps chip is manufactured in 40nm CMOS
and comes in variants with either two transmit
and four receive channels (2T4R) or four transmit
and four receive channels (4T4R).
It includes a configurable waveform generator,
and an analog-to-digital converter with
sampling rates of up to 50 million of samples
per second (MSPS). The broadband processor
based on the ARC EM6 licensed from Synopsys
implements radar algorithms.
In addition to the conventional embedded wafer-level ball
grid array (eWLB) package, the Alps chip series also includes
an Antenna in Package (AiP) solution, which greatly reduces
the difficulty and cost of radar development by integrating the
antenna onto the chip packaging layer.
Alps covers long-range,
medium-range, shortrange,
and ultra-shortrange
radar requirements.
Calterah has also developed
indoor detection
and tracking of the human
body applications based
on 60GHz and 77GHz mm-
Wave radar chip families,
employing FMCW and
MIMO technologies.
Calterah Semiconductor
Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. was founded in 2014 and has
rolled at a series of 77GHz and 60GHz CMOS radar transceivers
and sensors including antenna in package. The Yosemite
(77/79GHz) and Yellowstone (60GHz) were produced in 2017
followed by the Alps 77/79GHz CMOS radar SoC in 2019. The
Rhino 60GHz CMOS radar SoC is due to follow.
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