AI Sees New Apps, Chips, says Q'comm EE Times

Lab work is extending machine learning to serve new applications and define new hardware architectures, said a Qualcomm researcher. He spoke on the occasion of the company acquiring Scyfer B.V., a small AI research team affiliated with University of Amsterdam that it had been working with previously. Scyfer acted as a consulting firm, applying machine learning to industrial, IoT, banking, and mobile sectors. The group is now part of Qualcomm Research, seeking to expand machine learning in areas such as computer vision and natural language processing and exploring how emerging algorithms will impact the design of hardware accelerators. "As the algorithms change, we think there is a space here for co-designing the neural networks and the hardware," said Jeff Gehlhaar, a vice president of technology for corporate R&D who is responsible for AI at Qualcomm.