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AI everywhere.
For chip companies, this is all a very big deal. According to the latest report by Precedence Research, the AI market as a whole will grow from $87 billion in 2021 to more than $1.6 trillion by 2030. That includes data centers as well as edge devices, but the pace of growth is significant. In fact, AI is such a hot field today that almost every major tech company is investing in or making AI chips. They include Apple, AMD, Arm, Baidu, Google, Graphcore, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung and TSMC. The list goes on and on. .............
Conclusion
AI chips will continue to evolve and scale, and AI will be used in multiple ways both within those chips and by those chips. That will make it more difficult to design those chips, and it will make it harder to ensure they work as expected throughout their lifetimes, both from a functional and a security standpoint. It will take time to see which benefits outweigh the risks.
While developers continue to develop AI to emulate the human brain, but they are a long way from a device that actually can think for itself. Nevertheless, there are many ways to optimize these systems for specific use cases and applications, and not all of them require human intervention. As time goes on, that will likely mean more AI in more places to do more things, and it will raise design challenges involving power, performance, and security that are both difficult to plan for, to identify, and ultimately to fix.