The following glossary provides a quick-reference guide to many of the terms, acronyms, concepts, and technologies that we discussed in my previous column. Some of these definitions are necessarily simplified (entire books have been written about many of these topics), but they should at least … Read More → "A Little AI Glossary for Your Edification and Delight"
Things are changing incredibly quickly in the AI space. Only a few short years ago, most people barely knew AI existed. Today, by comparison, they use it every day, often without realizing it, and the pace of change shows no sign of slowing.
The problem is that AI isn’t one thing. It’s a sprawling collection of concepts, techniques, … Read More → "Everything You Wanted to Know About AI (But Were Too Afraid to Ask)"
Back in early 2024, I discussed SiTime’s MEMS-based temperature-controlled and oven-controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs and OCXOs) as replacements for ubiquitous crystal oscillators. (See “Adventures with SiTime’s MEMS-based Super-TCXOs – Super Accurate Clocks for the Future – Part 1.”) In that article, I wrote:
My podcast guest is Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras. Andy and I discuss the the revolutionary details of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE). We also explore where the next major competitive frontier lies for AI hardware, how the latest WSE addresses the critical latency and energy efficiency challenges of deploying massive AI models for inference and … Read More → "Democratizing Large-Scale AI: The Future of AI Hardware with Andy Hock from Cerebras"
There are many ways to slice and dice embedded engineering space (where, as everyone should know by now, no one can hear you scream). Take microcontrollers, for example. If I were to raise the topic of MCUs in a room full of embedded engineers, it wouldn’t take long before names like STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology, Infineon, and Renesas bid a cheery “hello” in … Read More → "You Say “Ultra-Low-Power Connected Edge AI,” I Say “Nordic Semiconductor”"
