Semiconductor Engineering

Is In-Memory Compute Still Alive?

In-memory computing (IMC) has had a rough go, with the most visible attempt at commercialization falling short. And while some companies have pivoted to digital and others have outright abandoned the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Uncertain Future Of In-Memory Compute

Experts at the Table — Part 2: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about AI and the latest issues in SRAM with Tony Chan Carusone, chief technology officer at Alphawave Semi; Steve Roddy, chief ...
NextBigFuture

Analog in-memory Computing Attention Mechanism for Fast and Energy-efficient Large Language Models

A Nature paper describes an innovative analog in-memory computing (IMC) architecture tailored for the attention mechanism in large language models (LLMs). They want to drastically reduce latency and ...
EDN

Can analog AI make a comeback with hybrid digital compute?

Back in September this year, I wrote a blog on analog computing for AI applications. This followed from ongoing efforts by a few organizations to use analog computing hardware and systems in a ...
insideHPC

In-Memory Computing Could Be an AI Inference Breakthrough

[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT PIECE] Generative AI is unlocking incredible business opportunities for efficiency, but we still face a formidable challenge undermining widespread adoption: the exorbitant cost ...