Semiconductor Engineering

Balancing Training, Quantization, And Hardware Integration In NPUs

Evolving challenges and strategies in AI/ML model deployment and hardware optimization have a big impact on NPU architectures ...

Local AI Concurrency Stress Tests : Unexpected Winners Surface

Local AI concurrency perfromace testing at scale across Mac Studio M3 Ultra, NVIDIA DGX Spark, and other AI hardware that handles load ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Outlier-aware Quantization Framework Co-designed With Heterogeneous NVM For SLM Deployment on Edge Platforms (UCSD et al.)

Efficient SLM Edge Inference via Outlier-Aware Quantization and Emergent Memories Co-Design” was published by researchers at ...
InfoWorld

What is model quantization? Smaller, faster LLMs

Reducing the precision of model weights can make deep neural networks run faster in less GPU memory, while preserving model accuracy. If ever there were a salient example of a counter-intuitive ...