Episodes

Aug. 5, 2020

AI With Sally: Why is Sound Recognition So Hard?

Artificial Intelligence: In this pilot episode of the AI podcast, we ask: Why is recognising sounds so hard? Could we build an artificial brain out of chips? And what has Graphcore been up to lately?
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Sept. 13, 2021

Data Center Hot Chips, Plus Aart de Geus on AI in Chip Design

A roundup of some big data center AI chips from Hot Chips, plus an interview with Synopsys CEO on chips designed by AI
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Oct. 21, 2021

AI Everywhere, Plus Andrew Feldman on Brain-Sized AI

On this podcast: a recap of the keynotes from our AI Everywhere conference, plus a conversation with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman on brain-sized AI, algorithmic bias, and more
Dec. 9, 2021

World’s Biggest GPU, plus Software-First AI Chip Design with SiFive’s Chris Lattner

On this podcast: GPU giants battle it out, plus a conversation with SiFive’s Chris Lattner on developing AI chips software-first.
May 10, 2022

Event-Based Vision, plus Compressing Activations with Perceive’s Steve Teig

On this podcast: One of event-based vision’s founding fathers, a sneak preview of GrAI Matter Labs’ image processing AI chip, and Perceive’s Steve Teig on a new way to compress activations
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Feb. 16, 2023

NXP Switches to In-House IP for On-Chip NPUs

In this episode, Sally speaks with NXP’s director of AI, Ali Ors, about the decision to move to in-house IP for NPUs in NXP’s microcontroller and application processor lines. We also discuss NXP’s NPU roadmap, software stack, and new AI model watermarking feature.
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March 10, 2023

Silicon Labs adds AI acceleration to wireless IoT chips

In this podcast, Sally speaks to Silicon Labs' Matt Maupin and Dan Kozin about the company's wireless IoT chips with AI acceleration, what use cases need this capability, how the accelerator fits into the device's deep sleep modes, and how AI works with the company's software stack.
May 3, 2023

The First Market for Neuromorphic Processing: Toys

In this podcast episode , Sally speaks to SynSense’s Dylan Muir about the company’s design win for its neuromorphic processor in a toy robot that recognises gestures, the company’s two processors and the differences between them, as well as the synergies between dynamic vision sensor cameras and neuromorphic processors.
May 17, 2023

The Future of LLMs, Compute Democratization and Open-Source Models

In this podcast, Sally speaks to SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang about how the success of ChatGPT and other LLMs is impacting businesses, what this means for compute democratization and open-source approaches, and how big LLMs can get.
Aug. 25, 2023

Generative AI Is Coming To Mobile Phones

In this podcast, Sally chats to Qualcomm's Vinesh Sukumar about the company's demos of generative AI running on Snapdragon mobile phone processors and the future of generative AI at the edge, as well as some of the tricks up Snapdragon's sleeve for AI acceleration.
Dec. 13, 2023

BrainChip Second-Gen Architecture: Transformers, TENNs and STDP

In this podcast, Sally interviews BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally about the company's second-generation architecture for spiking neural network acceleration, which now includes hardware support for transformer networks like ViT.
Feb. 8, 2024

Winbond CUBE in Edge AI Computing

In this podcast, Sally talks to Winbond’s Omar Ma to find out about CUBE, the company’s 3D-packaged memory concept that puts the memory die in the middle of the sandwich, rather than on top.
March 6, 2024

Sima.ai CEO: Software Is The Company

In this episode, Sally chats with Sima.ai CEO Krishna Rangasayee about the company’s software-centric approach, the company’s SoC with homegrown AI accelerator, and why they rely on Arm cores ahead of RISC-V.
May 3, 2024

Automotive AI: ADAS, Functional Safety and Chiplets

In this podcast, Sally chats with Untether’s Bob Beachler about the company’s automotive roadmap, the demand for AI in automotive, AI workloads in the car and the dawn of automotive chiplets.
June 12, 2024

SensiML Open-Sources TinyML Auto ML Tools

In this podcast, Sally chats with SensiML CEO Chris Rogers about the state of TinyML today and the company’s decision to open source a big chunk of its TinyML toolchain.
Aug. 8, 2024

How Much Compute Will AI Need, And Where Will It Come From?

In this podcast, Sally talks to Lemurian Labs CEO Jay Dawani about closing the gap between supply and demand for AI compute using hardware, software and model efficiencies.
Sept. 5, 2024

The Memory That Breathes

In this episode, Sally Ward Foxton sits down with 4DS' Chief Strategy Officer, Peter Himes, to discuss their ReRAM technology referred to as the memory that breathes.
Feb. 12, 2025

What the Google and Synaptics Collaboration Means for Edge AI

Welcome to a brand new season of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries of the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Synaptics. Synaptics has recently partnered with Google to add an open-source AI accelerator core that Google developed to Synaptics' next generation of its Astra line of IoT chips.
Feb. 19, 2025

Three Key Features to Bring Edge AI to Mainstream in 2025

Welcome to another episode of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries of the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Infineon Technologies.
April 7, 2025

Anaflash and Legato Logic Merge Forces

Welcome to another episode of AI with Sally, an EE Times podcast that brings you inside my conversations with luminaries in the AI chip industry. Today’s episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Anaflash. Silicon Valley startup Anaflash announced that it acquired another startup, Legato Logic, a few weeks ago. Anaflash uses nonvolatile memory for its computer memory based AI microcontroller chip and its IP offerings
April 29, 2025

Hardware Security in the Age of AI

In this podcast, Sally chats with Arm’s chief architect Richard Grisenthwaite about how AI is changing the security landscape, and whether AI is both a threat and a solution to security issues.
May 12, 2025

Automating NoC Design Masters SoC Complexity

Today, we’re diving into the critical role of network-on-chip (NoC) design in modern system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. Designing efficient interconnects has become a major challenge as SoCs grow more complex, especially with the increasing integration of AI workloads. NoCs now account for a significant portion of silicon area, making it essential to get them right. Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer at Arteris, will join us in discussing how their FlexNoC tool is revolutionizing NoC desi...
May 27, 2025

Mark Wade: ‘Silicon Photonics was Deeply Unpopular’

Optical I/O company Ayar Labs is 10 years old this month. In this podcast, Sally speaks to Ayar CEO Mark Wade about how the company started and where it is headed.
July 11, 2025

Sameer Wasson: ‘MIPS Will Not Become A Silicon Company’

In this podcast, MIPS CEO Sameer Wasson tells Sally Ward-Foxton that while the IP company is moving towards compute subsystems and custom ASIC tools, it will not become a silicon company.