By Richard Preston, Hardware Lead, CacheQ Systems
Richard Preston
Technical Innovations, AI integration News and Unanticipated Market Trends in 2024
If 2024 is anything like 2023, it will be full of technical innovations, more news on AI advancements and up-trends in the semiconductor market.
Under the technological innovation category, the semiconductor industry will see more specialized hardware chips for specific workloads such as Large Language Models (LLMs) inferencing, speech processing, image and pattern recognition, and the continued pursuit of autonomous driving and smarter robotics. We will see an increased need for custom compilers to enable software development for these specialized chips. CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs will continue to serve specific markets, but pioneers will create custom ASICs to differentiate or improve product performance.
Conjecture about AI integration and semiconductor design will continue far into 2024. We can expect more software developers will use AI-generated code in their final products. The potential is also there for AI to auto-generate and self-deploy code for the most agile and responsive applications. The day when AI is permitted to go beyond informing a human, and control operations without human intervention is getting closer. Until then, there are many industries where AI can be an invaluable companion. Some industry experts allude to a day when AI can be an effective doctor, having been trained on a vast amount of information on known medical conditions, symptoms, and treatments. Perhaps 2024 will be the year medical professionals adopt greater use of AI as a companion tool.
