Interesting article, thanks! One question: I was a bit struck by the "For scaling the IP beyond 4096MACs, you can simply put down multiple hardware blocks alongside each other onto the SoC..". Really? Is the interconnect fast enough (or the data flow slow enough) to allow for such unlimited upscaling? It might very well be all true, but I wonder if you had a chance to ask them about that. Interconnect fabric capabilities and speeds can become major hurdles, as we all know.
Each of the DNA100's and the DSP can act as memory-mapped master or slave on the AXI interconnect, so inter-DNA100 transfers are just as fast as DSP-DNA100 transfer, and the transfer from DSP would be at the same rate to any of the DNA100 slaves. AXI is very fast, so I would think it scales fairly linearly within its constraints. The fabric's power and area limitations probably allow only a very few DNA100 blocks on the same SoC.
I really hate the misuse of the word AI in everything now. This is not AI, this is simply the same thing just did differently. Its still all If and then stuff in programming, its not like its going to be smart AI that predicts what you need.
Ah, the ever receding bar of 'real AI'. As yesterday's AI techniques become widely adopted, they become "just heuristics" or "just procedural selection" or "just deep learning" and 'real AI' moves to the next big thing to chase.
AFAIK AI has been HAL2001 for a long time. So tricks to convert images to text, recognize street signs, remove noise from a photo, recognize speech, calculate at which times you use apps are not AI and I don't know when somebody would have said that.
One day when categories are fully formed and well trained it will become equivalent to the formal logic (that we use) which by the way is the thing that we don't think about but all of our actions are based upon.
I love how the industry is using artificial intelligence to mean things other than the emulation of human-like intellect via a computer system because various companies are too inept to come up with relevant terminology that accurately describe stuff like optical character recognition.
Someone needs to tell https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intel... to stop publishing papers that just seek to improve existing systems. Iow, the term has shifted in meaning as we disentangle the components of an intelligent agent.
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eastcoast_pete - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Interesting article, thanks! One question: I was a bit struck by the "For scaling the IP beyond 4096MACs, you can simply put down multiple hardware blocks alongside each other onto the SoC..". Really? Is the interconnect fast enough (or the data flow slow enough) to allow for such unlimited upscaling? It might very well be all true, but I wonder if you had a chance to ask them about that. Interconnect fabric capabilities and speeds can become major hurdles, as we all know.Jaybus - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Each of the DNA100's and the DSP can act as memory-mapped master or slave on the AXI interconnect, so inter-DNA100 transfers are just as fast as DSP-DNA100 transfer, and the transfer from DSP would be at the same rate to any of the DNA100 slaves. AXI is very fast, so I would think it scales fairly linearly within its constraints. The fabric's power and area limitations probably allow only a very few DNA100 blocks on the same SoC.imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
I really hate the misuse of the word AI in everything now. This is not AI, this is simply the same thing just did differently. Its still all If and then stuff in programming, its not like its going to be smart AI that predicts what you need.edzieba - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Ah, the ever receding bar of 'real AI'. As yesterday's AI techniques become widely adopted, they become "just heuristics" or "just procedural selection" or "just deep learning" and 'real AI' moves to the next big thing to chase.Fergy - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
AFAIK AI has been HAL2001 for a long time. So tricks to convert images to text, recognize street signs, remove noise from a photo, recognize speech, calculate at which times you use apps are not AI and I don't know when somebody would have said that.ZolaIII - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
One day when categories are fully formed and well trained it will become equivalent to the formal logic (that we use) which by the way is the thing that we don't think about but all of our actions are based upon.PeachNCream - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
I love how the industry is using artificial intelligence to mean things other than the emulation of human-like intellect via a computer system because various companies are too inept to come up with relevant terminology that accurately describe stuff like optical character recognition.tuxRoller - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Someone needs to tell https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intel... to stop publishing papers that just seek to improve existing systems.Iow, the term has shifted in meaning as we disentangle the components of an intelligent agent.
gurukiran0027 - Friday, April 19, 2019 - link
helio p60 is a great chipset by mediatek and powers some really high-tech features