Five forces shaping the silicon world: Advanced sensing and intelligence in IoT and vision

The cumulative improvement in digital silicon density, energy and performance has had an impressive quantitative impact on the world we live in. But new forces, embodied in radical changes in system applications, are rapidly disrupting traditional silicon architectures. In this talk we chart five of the major forces at work in silicon systems, and explore new categories of “things that sense and see”. Along the way, we visit some fundamental shifts taking place in low-energy processor cores, in vision DSPs, and in systems for “deep learning” that now exceed human capabilities.