Understanding Cloud-Edge Collaboration in Edge Computing Era

Understanding Cloud-Edge Collaboration in Edge Computing Era

Highlights: Analyzing the application needs and business models of cloud-edge collaboration in typical scenarios with a rational and optimistic attitude. In 2019, edge computing attracted significant attention from the industry, leading to an investment boom in the capital market, with many referring to 2019 as the inaugural year of edge computing. Rationally speaking, the explosive … Read more

What Is Edge Computing?

What Is Edge Computing?

Edge computing, as one of the key technologies of 5G, can push high bandwidth, low latency, and localized services to the edge of the network, solving problems such as excessive latency and traffic congestion, thereby providing better support for real-time and bandwidth-intensive services. So, what is edge computing? To talk about edge computing, we must … Read more

Why Edge Computing Is Important

Why Edge Computing Is Important

With the deepening of digital transformation, edge computing has begun to enter the implementation stage. Reporter of Caijing Han Shulin | Written by Mark | Edited by This year’s Hannover Industrial Fair in Germany and the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai have gradually made concepts like Industry 4.0 and digital twins well-known and no … Read more

Stronger Small LLM: Zephyr-7B

Stronger Small LLM: Zephyr-7B

ZEHPYR-7B is one of the next-generation large language models (LLMs) that has gained significant popularity in the AI community. The model was created by Hugging Face and is essentially a fine-tuned version of Mistral-7B trained on public datasets, optimized through knowledge distillation techniques. This model has achieved incredible results, surpassing many larger models across various … Read more

LyCORIS Usage Tutorial: Upgrade from Lora

LyCORIS Usage Tutorial: Upgrade from Lora

Welcome to the 37th Article of AI Painting Series In March, I released a tutorial on using Lora. I believe everyone can use Lora now, right? Lora performs well in controlling character appearance, objects, stylization, etc., allowing for the creation of many beautiful characters. Recently, the upgraded version of Lora, the LyCORIS model, has also … Read more

Exploring Modular Characteristics of LoRA with LoraHub

Exploring Modular Characteristics of LoRA with LoraHub

Machine Heart reports Editor: Panda Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a commonly used fine-tuning technique that allows foundational LLMs to efficiently adapt to specific tasks. Recently, researchers from Singapore’s Sea AI Lab, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Allen Institute for AI proposed a new learning method called LoraHub, which enables LLMs to adapt to … Read more

RISC-V Acceleration Chip with 496 Cores! RTL Open Source!

RISC-V Acceleration Chip with 496 Cores! RTL Open Source!

EETOP focuses on chips and microelectronics, click the blue text above to follow us. Source:wikichip Celerity is an open-source multi-core RISC-V tiered accelerator chip created through the collaborative efforts of several universities. This project is part of DARPA’s Circuit Realization At Faster Timescales (CRAFT) program, which aims to reduce the design cycle of custom integrated … Read more

A Detailed Explanation of Achronix Speedster 7t Series

A Detailed Explanation of Achronix Speedster 7t Series

When it comes to FPGAs, many people might first think of major FPGA manufacturers like Xilinx and Altera (which has been acquired by Intel). However, there are also other very distinctive FPGA manufacturers, such as Achronix, which specializes in hardware acceleration devices based on FPGAs and high-performance embedded FPGA (eFPGA) semiconductor intellectual property (IP). Thanks … Read more

Differences Between CPU, GPU, ASIC, and FPGA

Differences Between CPU, GPU, ASIC, and FPGA

In a previous article, we mentioned that the semiconductor chips in the industry are typically divided into digital chips and analog chips. Among them, the market size of digital chips accounts for a large proportion, reaching about 70%. Digital chips can be further subdivided into logic chips, memory chips, and microcontrollers (MCUs). We will introduce … Read more

Is ASIC Chip Design a Threat or Opportunity for Nvidia?

Is ASIC Chip Design a Threat or Opportunity for Nvidia?

We proposed in our April 2023 report titled “When the AI Wind Rises Again, Can Nvidia Continue to Dominate the AI Chip Market?” that the competition in the AI chip market is becoming increasingly fierce, and Nvidia’s biggest competitor may be its largest customer. We believe that Nvidia aims to enter the ASIC dedicated chip … Read more