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Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI

In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FP8: Cross-Industry Hardware Specification For AI Training And Inference (Arm, Intel, Nvidia)

Arm, Intel, and Nvidia proposed a specification for an 8-bit floating point (FP8) format that could provide a common interchangeable format that works for both AI training and inference and allow AI ...
Electronic Design

Floating-Point DSPs Provide Peripheral Options And Low Power Operation

Teaming a wealth of peripheral connectivity and low power consumption, the company unveils what it is calling the industry’s lowest power floating-point DSPs: the TMS320C6745 DSP and TMS320C6747 DSP ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between Fixed-Point, Floating-Point, and Numerical Formats?

Embedded C and C++ programmers are familiar with signed and unsigned integers and floating-point values of various sizes, but a number of numerical formats can be used in embedded applications. Here ...