Trends of Modern Processors for AI Acceleration

As Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology are playing the key role in the 4
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industrial revolution, tremendous amounts of researches are actively conducted to blend the technologies into our daily lives with practical applications, such as autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, AI speaker, smart phone, intelligent surveillance, etc. Most of current works rely on GPU that is not a practical solution to embedded systems and mobile platforms due to its large form factor and power consumption. Instead, low-power hardware accelerators are essential for feasible implementation and they have been investigated recently with different aspects and architectures. In this talk, the technological challenges and trends in the latest AI accelerators are reviewed.