8 MARCH 2024IN MYPINIONArtificial intelligence (AI) is exploding. Machine learning (ML) models are mutating, getting bigger, and more complicated. Some of the emerging ML models are beginning to replace current models, potentially rendering current hardware (HW) obsolete. What HW do we need for our cars? Today, we have three basic options: CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs. CPUs, designed for general-purpose computing, are flexible but not powerful enough for AI. GPUs, designed to render triangles, are powerful but not efficient enough for AI. ASICs, by definition, can be hardcoded for specific ML models, making them both powerful and efficient enough for AI. However, they may not be flexible enough to adapt to future AI approaches. AI needs HW that is the best of all three: as flexible as a CPU, as powerful as a GPU, and as efficient as an ASIC.Early AI started on CPUs. Back then, implementing ML models was straightforward, and any ML models coded up for CPUs would NEXT-GENERATION AI HARDWAREDr. Nikolai Ardey, Executive Director, VW Group Innovation, Volkswagen AG [ETR: VOW3]
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