AI with Sally Ward-Foxton

AI with Sally Ward-Foxton presents a variety of deeply technical, but concisely explained topics covering cutting-edge AI accelerator chips, software, systems, algorithms, neural networks, companies and many other subjects related to artificial intelligence and machine learning as it affects the semiconductor industry.

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?

08-05
31:46

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

09-13
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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.

12-09
31:21

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

05-10
22:29

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.

05-03
29:02

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.  

05-17
38:28

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.

08-25
30:44

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.

12-13
47:12

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.

02-08
21:21

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.

03-06
43:19

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. 

05-03
31:11

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.

06-12
39:52

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. 

08-08
45:33

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.

09-05
25:20

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. 

02-12
26:18

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. 

02-19
27:45

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

04-07
13:54

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.

04-29
36:51

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 design through automation. We’ll explore why this is crucial for today’s chips, how it addresses the growing demands of AI, and what the future holds for NoC technology. 

05-12
29:14

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.

05-27
45:27

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