Qualcomm uses FPGA for Cloud 100

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In terms of the underlying technology and the manufacturers behind them, the AI gold rush has attracted interest from every corner of the technology world. This has ranged from GPU and CPU companies to FPGA firms, custom ASIC markers, and more. There is a need for inference at the edge, inference at the cloud, training in the cloud – AI processing at every level, served by a variety of processors. But among all of these facets of AI, the most lucrative market of all is the market at the top of this hierarchy: the datacenter. Expansive, expensive, and still growing by leaps and bounds, the datacenter market is the ultimate feast or famine setup, as operators are looking to buy nothing short of massive quantities of discrete processors. And now, one of the last juggernauts to sit on the sidelines of the datacenter AI market is finally making its move: Qualcomm

At Qualcomm AI Day, the 800lb gorilla of the mobile world announced that they are getting into the AI accelerator market, and in an aggressive way. At their event, Qualcomm announced their first discrete dedicated AI processors, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 family. Designed from the ground up for the AI market and backed by what Qualcomm is promising to be an extensive software stack, the company is throwing their hat into the ring for 2020, looking to establish themselves as a major vendor of AI inference accelerators for a hungry market.

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