AMD and Xilinx announce a new world record for AI Inference

Last summer, we kicked off the first-ever Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge, where we challenged developers and startups to create exciting new applications using Vitis or Vitis AI on select Xilinx hardware platforms. We announced the winners for both the developer  and startup  contests earlier this year and we're extremely proud of the innovative projects and solutions that were built.  We are excited to announce that you can now find the Deepfield-SR solution by BLUEDOT , the first place startup winner, on the new Xilinx App Store! 

One of the most critical bottlenecks in building hardware architectures for complex datapath workloads is the speed of the memory subsystem. With the two latest additions to  Alveo™ accelerator card portfolio, the Alveo U50 and Alveo U280, we set out to eliminate that bottleneck by integrating high bandwidth memory gen2 (HBM2) into each. HBM2 is stacked DRAM memory, located in-package to shrink the power and PCB footprint—but it also provides astounding memory bandwidth of 460GB/s. This amount of memory bandwidth is enough to eliminate the memory bottlenecks seen in complex compute and data intensive workloads, and it fully unlocks the incredibly parallel capability of FPGAs.

The most critical AI video analytics applications are the ones that protect human health, preserve human life, and secure property, and complex applications like that need deterministic low latency performance. Not only that, but their complexity can be extremely hardware intensive, which can challenge organizational budgets.

The volume of data that healthcare providers collect is increasing and overwhelming the approaches currently being used to analyze it. At the same time, the ability to connect across tables and business entities and identify hidden relationships and patterns offers tantalizing breakthroughs in patient care and outcome improvements as well as efficiencies and cost savings for the providers.

And the result of that? ... Making Transcoding Easy to Develop and Deploy ... The Xilinx U30 SDK enables Straight Real-time Transcoding to convert one media asset from ... Want to learn more?

AI models and deep learning are key technologies that are used to gain insight on ... Aupera appliances enable higher performance, lower latency and reduced bandwidth ... Want to learn more?

The workflows of broadcasters and content creators—like those in many other industries —have been affected by the mindset changes that were ushered in by COVID and exacerbated by tough economic times and staffing shortages. Broadcast producers and engineers, security camera operators, and enterprise companies expanded their live-video systems to work remotely during the pandemic.

Large studios and control rooms with traditional on-premises video delivery methods have been replaced with distributed or decentralized production workflows spread across multiple broadcast facilities and home-based staff, taking advantage of IP workflows and working in the cloud.

As this year comes to an end, we're taking a moment to reflect on the Adaptive Advantage blogs posted in 2018, covering product news, boards, IP, webinars, partner stories, etc. Here are the top 5 product news stories of 2018 selected by the editors.

Silicon product news dominated the headlines for much of the year. On the other end of the spectrum, boards and software news stories were popular enough to crack the top 5 as well. Read on to see the prominent product news stories of the year.