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The microprocessor chip acts as the brain of any computer system, whether the device is used for the Internet of Things (IoT), consumers, or the cloud. In fact, the semiconductor…

The term “application specific integrated circuit” (ASIC) became popular in the 1990s when such chips promised to bring down the cost per chip for a given application, such as mobile…

The world of computer vision has continued to evolve in recent years with computer surpassing the accuracy of human being. Computer vision has enabled many applications that were only part…

Nvidia, by all accounts is the de-facto standard in AI chipsets today. In addition to being a chipset manufacturer, Nvidia has been able to offer additional value to their customers…

AI revolution, started in 2012 when neural network Alexnet surpassed accuracy of all previous classic computer vision techniques and has not looked back since. The AI algorithms are compute sensitive…

The increasing complexity of AI algorithms posed has given rise to a new industry of AI chipsets. In the past two years, all the top semiconductor companies along with cloud…

Since 2015, more than seventy companies have entered the AI chipset market with more than 100 chip starts announced. All of them are trying to tackle the AI algorithm acceleration…

Note: This was published on Tractica web site in 2018. High mask costs made it hard for chipset start-ups to raise capital during early 2000s. Today mask costs can range…