Deep Learning HW Design

With the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) breakthrough in 2012, the deep learning is widely applied to our daily life, automotive, retail, healthcare and finance.

In 2016, Alpha Go with Reinforcement Learning (RL) further proves new Artificial Intelligent (AI) revolution gradually changes our society, like personal computer (1977), internet (1994) and smartphone (2007) before.

However, most of effort focuses on software development and seldom addresses the hardware challenges.

This speech reviews various hardware designs range from CPU, GPU to NPU. New hardware can be evolved from those designs for performance and power improvement.