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Qualcomm’s AI Chip | V2X Debate | Countdown to China’s IC Self-Sufficiency

EE Times Current · 12 Apr 2019 · 16m

What this episode covers

Dylan McGrath reports on Qualcomm's announcement of its 7nm AI inference accelerator for data centers, highlighting its promise of 10x performance-per-watt over existing solutions but noting the chip won't sample until late 2020. Rick Merritt covers the SiS ML conference at Stanford, where University of Texas at Austin researchers presented 'WaveCore,' an academic architecture achieving NVIDIA V100-level training performance with less memory. Junko Yoshida details the European Parliament's rejection of a DSRC-focused V2X plan, a move criticized for delaying safety infrastructure in favor of unready 5G cellular standards. Echo Zhao and Brian Santo discuss China's semiconductor industry, noting that while design sales grew 20%, the base remains small and products are mostly mid-to-low end, challenging the government's 40% self-sufficiency goal by 2020.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Qualcomm, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arian Group
Also
WaveCore, DSRC, 5G

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