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NovuMind will participate in the Linley Fall Processor Conference, to be held October 23-24 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. The Linley Processor Conference us the industry’s premier processor event. This fall’s conference will focus on processors for AI and deep learning. Dr. Chien-Ping Lu, NovuMind CTO, will deliver a presentation on “Bringing Native AI Processing to the Edge.”

Moor Insights & Strategy, a global technology analyst and research firm, has written a paper covering NovuMind’s technology and strategy. Read the Moor Insights paper here

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — NovuMind Inc., a leading innovator in full-stack Artificial Intelligence technologies, is proud to be included in the recently published EE Times Silicon 60 Class of 2018. The Silicon 60 has been an annual feature of EE Times since 2004. The listed companies are startups that EE Times editors believe are at the forefront of innovation in the chip industry and meet a variety of criteria including technology, markets, financial position, and executive leadership. This year’s Silicon 60 reflects the rise of machine learning and highlights the importance of domain specific processors to fully realize the AI revolution. The editors compare this to the microprocessor revolution. “Back in the 1970s, microprocessors enabled phenomenal growth of the software industry and changed the world as the likes of Intel, founded in 1968, and AMD, founded in 1969, took on the establishment. Who will be the Intels, AMDs, and Arms of the machine learning era? The Silicon 60 may hold clues,” wrote Peter Clarke, a technology journalist based in the U.K. “We are delighted to be recognized by EE Times and included in this illustrious list of companies,” said Dr. Ren Wu, NovuMind’s founder and CEO.…More DetailsNovuMind Featured in EE Times Silicon 60

Benchmark Tests Show Dramatic Advantages in Latency and Power-Efficiency Achieved by Innovative Design Approach  Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 25, 2018 – NovuMind Inc., a leading innovator in full-stack Artificial Intelligence technologies, today released performance details of its NovuTensor AI chip, with class-leading power efficiency.  NovuTensor, purpose-built for deep neural network inference computations, will expand the frontiers of AI by enabling mass deployment of AI inference models at the edge of the network. NovuMind has produced its first silicon chips and is releasing benchmark test results showing performance superior to the most advanced GPUs currently available for AI inference applications. The benchmark tests were run with a variety of networks including ResNet18, ResNet34, ResNet50, ResNet70, VGG16, and Yolo2. According to Dr. Ren Wu, founder and CEO of NovuMind, “Until now, GPUs have powered the advances in AI, particularly around the training of deep neural network models from large sets of data. Once models are trained, however, the challenge is to deploy them at scale. GPUs and other processors are expensive and consume large amounts of power. Their architectures are optimized for 2-dimensional matrix computation. While they perform well when processing large batches of data, these chips are not suited for real-time…More DetailsNovuMind Releases Details of Breakthrough AI Chip

Semiconductor Industry Veteran to Lead Initiatives Taking NovuTensor™️ AI Chip to Broad Range of Applications Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 8, 2018 – NovuMind Inc., a leading innovator in full-stack Artificial Intelligence technologies, announced today that Dr. John Wei has joined the company in the role of Vice President of Design Technologies. John will lead full-customization initiatives to ensure that NovuMind can deliver highly customized solutions based on its NovuTensor™️chip. NovuTensoris purpose-built for AI inferencing, with breakthrough performance-power ratios that make it ideal for deployment in embedded applications and edge servers. According to Dr. Ren Wu, CEO and founder of NovuMind, “We are very pleased to welcome John to our team. We already have the most advanced AI inference chip, with a patented design that brings unsurpassed performance-to-power ratios. With John’s new initiatives, we plan to migrate this design to smaller-geometry semiconductor processes that will drive even more performance gains.” “We are at the dawn of an era of massive AI deployment,” continued Dr. Wu. “Advances in deep learning and the semiconductor technology to deploy it will mean that we can put the powers of perception and thinking in all kinds of network-edge applications. We want to provide our NovuTensor…More DetailsNovuMind Welcomes John Wei as VP of Design Technologies

Native Tensor Processor is an Industry First, Providing Dramatic Performance Advantages for Deep Neural Networks Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 1, 2018 – NovuMind Inc., a leading innovator in full-stack Artificial Intelligence technologies, announced today that it has been awarded a US Patent for the novel design of its NovuTensor AI chip. NovuTensor is purpose-built for AI inferencing, with breakthrough performance-power ratios that make it ideal for deployment in embedded applications and edge servers. “This patent validates the unique, domain-specific architecture of our NovuTensor chip,” said NovuMind’s founder, Dr. Ren Wu. “We have designed NovuTensor to run convolutional neural network AI models with unsurpassed speed and efficiency. We have taken a disruptive approach, with an architecture that performs 3D tensor computations natively. This gives NovuTensor a huge performance advantage over conventional architectures, which are designed around 2D matrix operations and incur extra overhead when they have to unfold tensors into a series of matrices and perform a series of matrix multiplications.” US Patent No. 10,073,816, “Native Tensor Processor and Partitioning of Tensor Contractions,” was issued on Sep. 11, 2018.  NovuMind has numerous other patent applications pending. Dr. Wu further commented on the state of the AI industry. “With advances in…More DetailsNovuMind Awarded Patent for Disruptive AI Chip