Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology these years. China’s use of facial recognition technology for widespread state surveillance has been feverishly reported by many media in recent months. The latest is the UK’s Financial Times, which reminds us of a 2015 official paper that articulated a vision to have a national video surveillance network by…

Xilinx purchased DeePhi, a 200-person startup in Beijing, in a deal that shows the speed and global scale of the super-hot AI market. Analysts said that the move was likely an effort to grab hard-to-find deep-learning talent already developing neural-networking software for Xilinx FPGAs. The deal is not alone in showing how a fast-moving industry…

While AI processors and AI-ready SoCs are getting all the attention from the investment community because they are deemed critical to emerging highly automated vehicles, what about FPGAs? Where do they stand in the AI silicon race? In a move to reaffirm its long-standing contributions to the automotive industry and future roles that FPGAs are…

The Top 100 Global Innovators report is the latest in an annual series that stretches back to 2011. In these reports, we seek to identify the most innovative organizations around the globe and to recognize and celebrate their contributions to providing new solutions to existing and unmet future challenges for the betterment of individual lives…

The global top 10 IC design companies in 2018 the first quarter according to revenue and ranking come out, except MediaTek (MediaTek) and Novatek’s revenue presenting recession, the rest 8 manufacturers are going up. Among them, Broadcom topped the list with $48.1 billion, year-on-year growth of 15%. Qualcomm and NVIDIA were second and third with $3.897 billion and $2.79 billion respectively. According to latest statistics of…