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2020 Mega-Merger #3 | An AI Ecosystem (Almost) from Scratch

EE Times Current · 30 Oct 2020 · 46m

What this episode covers

Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell explains that AMD's $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx creates a diversified powerhouse, combining AMD's CPU/GPU strength with Xilinx's FPGA and Versal technologies to target data center, edge, and embedded markets. Meanwhile, IBM Research VP Mukesh Khare and Synopsys VP Arun Venkatachar discuss the IBM Research AI Hardware Center, a public-private partnership aimed at building an end-to-end AI ecosystem from devices to software. They detail their goal of improving AI compute efficiency by 1,000 times in 10 years through innovations in heterogeneous integration, chiplets, and analog AI, leveraging Synopsys' EDA tools and the broader ecosystem including Samsung and Applied Materials.

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AMD, Xilinx, IBM, Synopsys, NVIDIA, Intel, Lattice, Samsung, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, Broadcom, Analog Devices, Maxim Integrated, SoftBank, ARM Holdings, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Red Hat, MIT

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