There Is No "One Size Fits All" In AI -- Qualcomm Targets A Multifarious Approach

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are changing everything in the electronics industry. Engineers are now evaluating how to design and train intelligence solutions in everything from sensors, to smartphones, to networks, to cloud data centers. However, just as there has never been a single processor for every application or workload, so too is there no single solution for AI. Qualcomm appears to be hedging its bets with a distributed AI solution the company calls the Artificial Intelligence Engine (AIEngine) and a dedicated AI accelerator, that was just announced at a company sponsored event in China. At the moment, most of the training of artificial neural networks is done in data centers.