AI with Sally Ward-Foxton

1. AI With Sally: Why is Sound Recognition So Hard?

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   Artificial Intelligence: In this pilot episode of the AI podcast, we ask: Why is recognising sounds so hard? Could we build an artificial brain out of chips? And what has Graphcore been up to lately?

   Aug 5, 2020

2. Data Center Hot Chips, Plus Aart de Geus on AI in Chip Design

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   A roundup of some big data center AI chips from Hot Chips, plus an interview with Synopsys CEO on chips designed by AI

   Sep 13, 2021

Season 1

1. AI Everywhere, Plus Andrew Feldman on Brain-Sized AI

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   On this podcast: a recap of the keynotes from our AI Everywhere conference, plus a conversation with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman on brain-sized AI, algorithmic bias, and more

   Oct 21, 2021 38 min

1. World’s Biggest GPU, plus Software-First AI Chip Design with SiFive’s Chris Lattner

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   On this podcast: GPU giants battle it out, plus a conversation with SiFive’s Chris Lattner on developing AI chips software-first.

   Dec 9, 2021 31 min

2. Event-Based Vision, plus Compressing Activations with Perceive’s Steve Teig

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   On this podcast: One of event-based vision’s founding fathers, a sneak preview of GrAI Matter Labs’ image processing AI chip, and Perceive’s Steve Teig on a new way to compress activations

   May 10, 2022 22 min

Season 2

1. NXP Switches to In-House IP for On-Chip NPUs

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   In this episode, Sally speaks with NXP’s director of AI, Ali Ors, about the decision to move to in-house IP for NPUs in NXP’s microcontroller and application processor lines. We also discuss NXP’s NPU roadmap, software stack, and new AI model watermarking feature.

   Feb 17, 2023 32 min

2. Silicon Labs adds AI acceleration to wireless IoT chips

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   In this podcast, Sally speaks to Silicon Labs' Matt Maupin and Dan Kozin about the company's wireless IoT chips with AI acceleration, what use cases need this capability, how the accelerator fits into the device's deep sleep modes, and how AI works with the company's software stack.

   Mar 10, 2023 28 min

1. The First Market for Neuromorphic Processing: Toys

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   In this podcast episode , Sally speaks to SynSense’s Dylan Muir about the company’s design win for its neuromorphic processor in a toy robot that recognises gestures, the company’s two processors and the differences between them, as well as the synergies between dynamic vision sensor cameras and neuromorphic processors.

   May 3, 2023 29 min

2. The Future of LLMs, Compute Democratization and Open-Source Models

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   In this podcast, Sally speaks to SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang about how the success of ChatGPT and other LLMs is impacting businesses, what this means for compute democratization and open-source approaches, and how big LLMs can get.

   May 17, 2023 38 min

3. Generative AI Is Coming To Mobile Phones

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   In this podcast, Sally chats to Qualcomm's Vinesh Sukumar about the company's demos of generative AI running on Snapdragon mobile phone processors and the future of generative AI at the edge, as well as some of the tricks up Snapdragon's sleeve for AI acceleration.

   Aug 25, 2023 31 min

4. BrainChip Second-Gen Architecture: Transformers, TENNs and STDP

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   In this podcast, Sally interviews BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally about the company's second-generation architecture for spiking neural network acceleration, which now includes hardware support for transformer networks like ViT.

   Dec 13, 2023 47 min

5. Winbond CUBE in Edge AI Computing

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   In this podcast, Sally talks to Winbond’s Omar Ma to find out about CUBE, the company’s 3D-packaged memory concept that puts the memory die in the middle of the sandwich, rather than on top.

   Feb 8, 2024 21 min

6. Sima.ai CEO: Software Is The Company

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   In this episode, Sally chats with Sima.ai CEO Krishna Rangasayee about the company’s software-centric approach, the company’s SoC with homegrown AI accelerator, and why they rely on Arm cores ahead of RISC-V.

   Mar 6, 2024 43 min

7. Automotive AI: ADAS, Functional Safety and Chiplets

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   In this podcast, Sally chats with Untether’s Bob Beachler about the company’s automotive roadmap, the demand for AI in automotive, AI workloads in the car and the dawn of automotive chiplets.

   May 3, 2024 31 min

8. SensiML Open-Sources TinyML Auto ML Tools

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   In this podcast, Sally chats with SensiML CEO Chris Rogers about the state of TinyML today and the company’s decision to open source a big chunk of its TinyML toolchain.

   Jun 12, 2024 40 min

9. How Much Compute Will AI Need, And Where Will It Come From?

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   In this podcast, Sally talks to Lemurian Labs CEO Jay Dawani about closing the gap between supply and demand for AI compute using hardware, software and model efficiencies.

   Aug 8, 2024 46 min

10. The Memory That Breathes

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    In this episode, Sally Ward Foxton sits down with 4DS' Chief Strategy Officer, Peter Himes, to discuss their ReRAM technology referred to as the memory that breathes.

    Sep 5, 2024 25 min

11. What the Google and Synaptics Collaboration Means for Edge AI

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    Welcome to a brand new season of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries of the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Synaptics. Synaptics has recently partnered with Google to add an open-source AI accelerator core that Google developed to Synaptics' next generation of its Astra line of IoT chips.

    Feb 12, 2025 26 min

12. Three Key Features to Bring Edge AI to Mainstream in 2025

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    Welcome to another episode of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries of the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Infineon Technologies.

    Feb 19, 2025 28 min

13. Anaflash and Legato Logic Merge Forces

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    Welcome to another episode of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries in the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Anaflash. Silicon Valley startup Anaflash announced that it acquired another startup, Legato Logic, a few weeks ago. Anaflash uses nonvolatile memory for its computer memory based AI microcontroller chip and its IP offerings

    Apr 7, 2025 14 min