Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was 'The Year of AI'

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While the rest of the world spent 2023 playing with ChatGPT, the electronics industry put AI into everything from processors to edge IoT chips to EDA tools.

www.allaboutcircuits.com, Dec. 27, 2023 – 

Usually when we do these end–of-year top trends articles, we examine four or five significant trends in the electronics and semiconductor industries. There's usually more than one top trend to discuss. But 2023 has been different. There's nothing that has so infused every corner of electronic design this year more than artificial intelligence (AI).

In the culture in general generative AI, including ChatGPT, very much dominated this year's buzz. But, in our industry, AI has loomed large as well.

It's true that AI was a huge part of this year's mindshare, and you saw it in a lot of our headlines on our site. But it's interesting to note that AI was actually not a significant part of our highest page view articles. Look for an article rounding up our top 2023 All About Circuits news stories on New Year's Eve. Perhaps that shows that engineers like you have information preferences that stretch beyond that of AI. AI is real, important, and here to stay, but it's just one tool in an engineer's toolbox.

While AI was the dominant technology trend this year, there were definitely subcategories in AI technology advances relevant to engineering. In this article, we break these down and examine each one.

AI in processing and accelerators

AI processing aimed the the edge and application-specific task

AI in PCB design tools, IC design tools, and embedded development tools

AI in Desktop Processing, Accelerator Subsystems, and More

For its part, AMD kicked off 2023 with bold moves in AI by announcing at CES 2023 the industry's first x86 processor with dedicated AI hardware. This took the form of what AMD calls its XDNA adaptive AI architecture.

The scheme enables an ability to pass large arrays of AI data from layer to layer. This approach is said to be customizable to whatever AI workload you need to process. AMD's 2023 announcements included a desktop x86 processor that embeds an AI hardware engine that uses XDNA technology.

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