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Unleashing the full potential of AI

November 21, 2022 5-MINUTE READ

RESEARCH REPORT

In brief

"As Artificial Intelligence becomes more ubiquitous, hardware is playing a more significant role in the advancement of AI. This is a huge opportunity for the semiconductor industry, but also comes with pains that the industry needs to address."

— Shungo Saito, Director – Program Development, Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)​

Major trends driving AI evolution

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While software drove the initial burst of advancements in AI, the parallelism of hardware and software development will achieve the next major AI breakthroughs.

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Although the growth in AI creates tremendous demand for semiconductors and puts them in a position of power, the industry will continue to experience growing pains.

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Demand for compute power far outstrips its supply and the industry’s current business model is not well suited to address this imbalance.

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New devices and materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and spintronics.

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New architectures and packaging such as 3D packaging, optical interconnects, and reconfigurable computing.

Scaling AI in the supply chain to improve intelligence

"The larger the neural network, the better the results. But, at the cost of energy. We relentlessly improved energy efficiency of ML platforms and in some cases yielded orders-of-magnitude, with no signs of the slowing down."

— Yanamadala Chowdary

About the Authors

Timothy Chu

Managing Director – Strategy & Consulting, Semiconductor


Michael Kurniawan

Manager – Strategy & Consulting, Semiconductor


Jaya Shukla

Senior Manager – Industry Consulting, High Tech


Yanamadala Chowdary

Technology Strategy Business leader, ARM


Shungo Saito

Director – Program Development, Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)​