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Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #58

By Acceleration Robotics · May 5, 2023

News

Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Delhi, India

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 1, 2023 [1]
Acceleration Robotics organised the third ROS Developers India Meet in Delhi to create a cohesive community of roboticists in India.

Global chip sales and wafer shipments drop again in Q1

Source: Fierce Electronics, May 2, 2023 [2]
The global trend for chips and wafers continued in Q1, with semiconductor sales and wafer shipments dropping 21.3% and 11.3% respectively. Memory and consumer electronics saw the largest drops in demand, while automotive and industrial applications remain stable. Intel and Samsung reported similar results.

March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million

Source: Robotics Business Review, May 1, 2023 [3]
47 robotics investments in the month of March accounted for a total of $526M.

Logistics robots market set to grow to almost $40 billion by 2033

Source: Robotics & Automation News, April 29, 2023 [4]
The logistics robots market is expected to expand at a strong compound annual growth rate of 16.5 percent between 2023 and 2033. This is according to a new report by Future Market Insights.

NVIDIA 3nm GPUs not launching till 2025, expected to utilize TSMC for Next-Gen chips

Source: Wccftech, April 28, 2023 [5]
NVIDIA's next-gen GPUs based on TSMC's 3nm process node are likely to be delayed until 2025 due to a slow PC market and economic tensions. GPU maker will unveil mainstream parts in the coming month and laptop segment at CES 2024.

Examining the autonomous vehicle retrofit market

Source: Robotics Business Review, May 2, 2023 [6]
Many people don’t realize that for the last several years, autonomous vehicle (AV) retrofit technology has been quietly carving out a new niche.

Intel promises an avalanche of new CPUs and chip tech despite record losses

Source: pcgamer, April 28, 2023 [7]
Intel has reported its biggest ever quarterly loss of $2.8 billion, but CEO Pat Gelsinger is bullish about the company's prospects. Intel's next-gen Meteor Lake is in production and will launch in the second half of 2023.

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #21

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 2, 2023 [8]
Join the exciting ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group on its 21st meeting to discuss how hardware acceleration and custom compute architectures can speed up robotics. The goal of this meeting is to review the progress we have made over the last week and report on the current status of the group. The meeting is scheduled to be 30 minutes.

Papers

Sailfish: exploring heterogeneous query acceleration on discrete CPU-FPGA architecture

Source: HardBD & Active Workshops, 2023 [9]
The hardware of modern servers is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, leading to mismatched computing resources between CPU-end and FPGA-end operators. To address this, a motion operator and an FPGA accelerator are proposed to adjust the runtime computing resources of CPU-end to match FPGA-end processing performance. Sailfish is a prototype that exceeds native acceleration schemes.

FPG-AI: a technology-independent framework for the automation of CNN deployment on FPGAs

Source: IEEE Xplore, March 23, 2023 [10]
FPG-AI is a technology-independent toolflow for automating the deployment of CNNs on FPGA. It combines model compression strategies with a handcrafted HDL accelerator, and an automation process merges the two design spaces to define an end-to-end and ready-to-use tool. Experimental results show unmatched device portability and performance metrics in line with the literature.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #57 - Design IP Sales Grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020, Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #56 - EU legislators strike deal on €43B chips plan, Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales reach all-time record $108 billion and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #55 - India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub, EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #54 - The age of acceleration engines, Keys to using ROS 2 & other frameworks for medical robots, Autonomous mobile robots market expected to expand at 22 percent a year and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #53 - Robotekin, the Basque robotics and automation association, Automotive industry sets record by employing 1M robots and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #52 - Nvidia works with TSMC, ASML and Synopsis on software to speed up chipmaking, Keys to developing autonomous vehicle software and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #51 - PRESS RELEASE: Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #16 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #50 - How the EU chips act could build "Innovation capacity" in Europe, How Efinix is conquering the hurdle of hardware acceleration for devices at the edge and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #49 - ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #15, 600 for-profit companies using ROS and ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics is growing, January 2023 robotics investments total US $521 million and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #48 - RobotPerf, benchmarking interest for robots grows, Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the AESEMI and more

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Vikhe, G. (2023, May 1). Acceleration robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Delhi, India. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. /blog/acceleration-robotics-hosts-ros-developers-meet-up-in-delhi-india.php ↩︎

  2. Hamblen, M. (2023, May 2). Global chip sales and wafer shipments drop again in Q1. Fierce Electronics. https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/global-chip-sales-and-wafer-shipments-drop-again-q1 ↩︎

  3. Kara, D. (2023, May 1). March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million. Robotics Business Review. https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/investment/march-2023-robotics-investments-total-620-million/ ↩︎

  4. Logistics robots market set to grow to almost $40 billion by 2033. (2023, April 29). Robotics & Automation News. https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2023/04/29/logistics-robots-market-set-to-grow-to-almost-40-billion-by-2033/67832/ ↩︎

  5. Mujtaba, H. (2023, April 28). NVIDIA 3nm GPUs not launching till 2025, expected to utilize TSMC for Next-Gen chips. Wccftech. https://wccftech.com/nvidia-next-gen-3nm-gpus-not-launching-until-2025-tsmc-report/ ↩︎

  6. Cyngn. (2023, May 2). Examining the autonomous vehicle retrofit market. Robotics Business Review. https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/autonomous-transportation/examining-the-autonomous-vehicle-retrofit-market/ ↩︎

  7. Laird, J. (2023, April 28). Intel promises an avalanche of new CPUs and chip tech despite record losses. pcgamer. https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-promises-an-avalanche-of-new-cpus-and-chip-tech-despite-record-losses/ ↩︎

  8. https://www.linkedin.com/events/7059211618349424640/comments/ ↩︎

  9. Xing, W., Yaofeng, T., Yinjun, H., Zhanghua, C., Xuecheng, Q., & Daojun, H. (2023). Sailfish: exploring heterogeneous query acceleration on discrete CPU-FPGA architecture. HardBD & Active Workshops. https://hardbd-active.github.io/2023/papers/HardBDActive23-WeiTHCQH.pdf ↩︎

  10. Pacini, T., Rapuano, E., & Fanucci, L. (2023, March 23). FPG-AI: a technology-independent framework for the automation of CNN deployment on FPGAs. IEEE Xplore. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10089388 ↩︎

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