AI Flood Drives Chips to the Edge

Editor's Note: Welcome to Aspencore's Special Project on Embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article, along with the articles listed on the last page, form an in-depth look from a variety of angles at the business and technology of imbuing embedded systems with localized AI. SAN JOSE -- It's easy to list semiconductor companies working on some form of artificial intelligence -- pretty much all of them are. The broad potential for machine learning is drawing nearly every chip vendor to explore the still-emerging technology, especially in inference processing at the edge of the network. "It seems like every week, I run into a new company in this space, sometimes someone in China that I've never heard of," said David Kanter, a microprocessor analyst at Real World Technologies.