Artificial Intelligence and Dispersed Computing - EEs Talk Tech #2 - Keysight Technologies

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Discussion agenda: Intro 00:03 Intel acquisition of Altera 00:48 What does it mean for Intel to buy an FPGA company? What is "dispersed computing" 1:20 Microprocessors used to handle everyting Then, GPUs became integrated 1:48 Offloading computing from a microprocessor 2:05 One option is to use an FPGA to share computing 2:13 ASIC vs FPGA 2:18 ASICs aren't flexible 2:48 FPGAs give more flexibility than an ASIC 3:06 We use both FPGAs and ASICs in our instruments 3:28 Parallel vs serial buses 3:38 PCIe is x16, other tech going well past 2 and 4 lanes 4:03 This is helpful, but it adds a lot of design complexity We're starting to see 5:03 PCIe, USB, SerDes used to dominate but now we're seeing some other technologies like Generation Z and CCIX 6:03 Makes designs faster to market and easier to debug Generation Z (Gen-Z) 6:28 Generation Z and CCIX build on PCIe technology Why are these technologies coming out? 7:03 PCIe takes a lot of work 7:38 So these technologies are less stringent 8:03 and are more open 8:18 We see a lot of PCIe Gen 2 that will start to be replaced by Gen-Z or CCIX type buses internally 8:33 How does the microprocessor connect to other chips in the design? 9:08 That's the biggest opportunity for speed increases Thunderbolt has been around for a while 9:48 But, Thunderbolt is finally taking off 10:03 It used to be an internal bus, but now we're starting to see it externally on consumer devices What are the next major tasks that will be offloaded? 10:28 AI, machines learning from themselves 11:03 "If true artificial intelligence happens, there's no way a microprocessor can do it all" 11:13 Big data is huge, and that requires a lot of processing and computing 11:35 A processor and a server won't be able to do it alone 11:53 Is this because there's too much data? (it's two-fold) 12:13

1. There's tons of data 12:48
2. We want to know the answer right away FPGAs/ASICs are currently doing a "filtering" of data ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10_8c-nkfOg