Last week, EDACafe provided a quick overview of some of the presentations which were given during the first part of this year’s Linley Fall Processor Conference, from October 20 to 22. This week we complete our coverage of the virtual event – organized by The Linley Group – by quickly summarizing some of the presentations which were given during the second part of the conference, from October 27 to 29. No shortage of innovations in this period, which is also characterized by big deals (Nvidia-Arm and AMD-Xilinx) in the processor industry.

TinyML chip requirements: the Google point of view

The second part of the conference was kicked off by a keynote from Peter Warden, Technical Lead of the TensorFlow Micro open source framework at Google. Warden summarized the requirements that chip vendors will need to satisfy to make the vision of TinyML come true. He foresees a future of hundreds of billions of “peel-and-stick” sensors placed on everyday objects – used for industrial monitoring, environmental monitoring, building automation, agricultural and wildlife use cases etc. – all of them capable of full-vocabulary speech recognition and/or person and gesture recognition.
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