Semiconductor Engineering

Balancing Training, Quantization, And Hardware Integration In NPUs

Experts At The Table: AI/ML is driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones. Semiconductor ...
EDN

Gray codes: Fundamentals and practical insights

Gray codes, also known as reflected binary codes, offer a clever way to minimize errors when digital signals transition between states. By ensuring that only one bit changes at a time, they simplify ...
IEEE

Trainable Hypervectors Encoding for Efficient 3D Loop-Closure Detection on Edge Devices

Abstract: Loop-closure detection plays a critical role in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. The primary task of loop-closure detection involves analyzing previously visited ...
IEEE

Time Encoding Quantization of Bandlimited and Finite-Rate-of-Innovation Signals

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of quantization in integrate-and-fire time encoding machine (IF-TEM) sampler used for bandlimited (BL) and finite-rate-of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How Neural Super Sampling Works: Architecture, Training, And Inference

This blog post is the second in our Neural Super Sampling (NSS) series. The post explores why we introduced NSS and explains its architecture, training, and inference components. In August 2025, we ...
Nasdaq

Elastic Announces Faster Filtered Vector Search with ACORN-1 and Default Better Binary Quantization Compression

New capabilities deliver up to 5X faster filtered vector search, improved ranking quality, and lower infrastructure costs to unlock scalable, cost-efficient AI applications “We’re committed to giving ...
Business Wire

Elastic Announces Faster Filtered Vector Search with ACORN-1 and Default Better Binary Quantization Compression

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced new performance and cost-efficiency breakthroughs with two significant enhancements to its vector search. Users ...
GitHub

[FEATURE] [RFC] Integrating Lucene's Better Binary Quantization into OpenSearch

This project aims to integrate BBQ into the OpenSearch k-NN plugin to offer users a memory-efficient alternative, ideal for large-scale vector workloads in constrained compute environments. The ...
Scientific American

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
Psychology Today

AI's Glass Ceiling

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, with today’s systems able to imitate various human cognitive functions such as speech recognition, music composition, disease diagnosis, and even ...
TechSpot

AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs bring major encoding and ray tracing upgrades

The big picture: AMD finally revealed the specifications, pricing, and performance details of Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, with full reviews expected in the coming days. While ...