➀ Axelera AI, founded in 2021, aims to provide scalable edge AI hardware and software solutions.
➁ The company has raised USD 120 million and has a world-class team of over 190 employees.
➂ Axelera AI's Metis platform offers high performance with low power consumption, targeting applications like computer vision, automotive, and healthcare.
➀ A new chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor architecture aims to balance performance, efficiency, and flexibility for AI workloads.
➁ The architecture utilizes modular chiplets, including a vector processing chiplet and a matrix multiplication accelerator, to optimize various AI computation aspects.
➂ The RISC-V solution addresses memory bottlenecks and enhances energy efficiency with time-based execution and dynamic power gating.
➀ Semidynamics, founded in 2016, transitioned from RISC-V design services to licensing customizable 64-bit RISC-V processor IP in 2019.
➁ UPMEM's selection of Semidynamics' IP for large language models in 2024 led to increased interest from other fabless semiconductor companies.
➂ The company is focusing on providing customized solutions and encouraging early collaboration to address challenges and meet future demands in the AI sector.
➀ A new architecture for RISC-V CPUs introduces advanced matrix extensions and custom quantization instructions that significantly improve CNN acceleration.
➁ The design features scalable, VLEN-agnostic matrix multiplication instructions, ensuring consistent performance across different hardware configurations.
➂ A 2D load/store unit optimizes memory access for matrices, reducing overhead and increasing computational efficiency.
➀ There has been a significant shift towards RISC-V architectures in SoC design;
➁ This article highlights the impact of this shift on the semiconductor industry;
➂ It discusses the role of RISC-V in fostering innovation and flexibility in technology development.
➀ A roundup of the latest electronics news from Embedded World 2024, covering automotive, military, telecoms, industrial, and consumer electronics sectors.
➁ Infineon is launching a RISC-V starter kit for automotive microcontrollers.
➂ NXP reveals MCX MCUs with Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and Bluetooth LE.
➀ Bolt Graphics has introduced its Zeus GPU platform, designed for gaming, rendering, and supercomputer simulations.
➁ The company claims that its Zeus GPU can outperform Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 by around 10 times in path tracing workloads.
➂ However, Zeus is limited to path tracing and FP64 compute workloads due to its lack of support for traditional rendering techniques.
➀ Infineon推出面向未来几年发布的汽车微控制器系列的RISC-V入门套件；
➁ Infineon汽车总裁Peter Schiefer表示，在软件定义的汽车中，RISC-V是实现标准化和生态系统兼容性的关键；
➂ 该套件将由Synopsys提供，旨在推动虚拟MCU原型的开发，以促进软件开发，并最终实现真实硅片的制造。
➀ China plans to release guidelines encouraging the national use of RISC-V-based chips, according to a Reuters report.
➁ The RISC-V architecture is attractive due to its openness, allowing anyone to freely obtain, learn, modify, and extend it.
➂ RISC-V has been embraced by global companies like Alibaba, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA, contributing to its rapid development.
➀ The Chinese government is shifting its focus from x86 and Arm CPUs to promote RISC-V chips, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign technologies.
➁ The new policy is expected to be announced soon, marking the first official government push for RISC-V adoption in China.
➂ Chinese companies like Alibaba and Nuclei System Technology are investing in RISC-V, and the technology is gaining traction in the country.
➀ RISC-V has transformed from an emerging force to a mainstream one after more than a decade of development;
➁ More and more companies are entering the RISC-V field and achieving remarkable results, with Qualcomm shipping 650 million RISC-V cores by the end of 2023 and ARM producing about 3 billion chips based on RISC-V cores;
➂ Alibaba's DAMO Academy Xuan Tie team is fully committed to RISC-V, revealing breakthroughs in server-grade CPU and showcasing the full picture of the high-performance ecosystem.
