Sally Ward-Foxton

@satnam6502 Happy Birthday for tomorrow and the next day!

"I was not born yesterday" I told my mum, but she told me I actually was. For decades I had celebrated my birthday on 14 May, but quite late in life my mum told me that I had the wrong birthdate. My birthdate was accidentally swapped for the birthdate of a baby born the day after me in a small village in Punjab, India. Which was unfortunate because on the wrong birthdate several other bad Satnam Singhs were born and their bad deeds would follow and haunt me to this day (I spent a decade on the US no fly list). I was literally born under the wrong stars. Mum: 1. Me: 0. Somewhere out there, the other Satnam Singh wondering why his life has been suspiciously smooth: 1.

I will be interviewing RetailNext's Mark Jamtgaard live on stage about processor/accelerator selection for embedded vision at the Embedded Vision Summit next week. Please come along with questions for Mark!

they call them crisps there

These chips are racing to power your car! Featuring @sallywf, @Mobileye, @Ambarella_Inc, @Hailo, @arteris_noc, @nvidia, @NXP, and Athos Silicon! youtu.be/sP65jP-LgyQ Welcome to week six of The AI Hardware Show!

Following its DreamBig acquisition, Athos is designing a #chiplet-based system for autonomous driving, with first samples due in Q1 2027. #AutonomousDriving eetimes.com/athos-scraps-m…

Enjoyed my visit to Athos Silicon a short while back - thanks Charnjiv and François for explaining the change in strategy for your autonomous driving chip: eetimes.com/athos-scraps-m…

At @Synopsys Converge this year, @Sallywf and I were invited to present our AI Hardware Show on the road (aka, the Roadshow) as an amuse bouche ahead of the CEO keynote. We discussed key milestones from 2025, and what we're looking forward to in 2026. youtu.be/WBmP_dtVR3M

British startup Lumai is productizing its lens-based optical computer. The company has eval systems available now that can run Llama, a first for optical systems, but another potential market could be prefill acceleration: eetimes.com/lumai-producti…

Delighted to present (virtually) at EE Times Taiwan's AI+ Techcon today! Thanks to everyone who attended!

nice write up @sallywf . It's super fun to ship Galaxy and see all the tech come together

Tenstorrent Unveils Next-Gen Servers For Fast Tokens, No Disaggregation Needed eetimes.com/tenstorrent-un…

This is partly because many Americans still like to believe that journalists are a kind of priestly caste, with a higher calling; in Britain they have traditionally been seen as disfunctional larrikins; mischievous, shit-stirring chancers, somewhat beneath the salt. Depictions is US and UK films generally divide this way. I would be disappointed if British journos didn't nick the booze.

.@tenstorrent is launching Galaxy Blackhole servers and clusters for fast LLM inference (DeepSeek-671B at up to 350 t/s/u), among other applications - no disaggregation needed, according to @jimkxa: eetimes.com/tenstorrent-un…

The AI Hardware Podcast, with Ian and @Sallywf! Episode 5: Datacenter Inference Pt 2 This episode - personal thoughts on @Intel, @IBM, @Qualcomm, @Tensordyne, and @Tenstorrent. youtu.be/4nWb5AbL-bQ

The Economist: the Richard Scarry rule—politicians will rarely challenge interests that feature in children's books Me:

Anker brings on-device AI to earbuds edn.com/anker-brings-o…

It is staggering the advances in compute, memory, and bandwidth for AI training and inference. blog.google/innovation-and…

TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference. Looking good!

@raywccf @tenstorrent @jimkxa @JasminaVas Yes I thought that too. 256 was the number mentioned during the call and I did double check it. But the company later got in touch to clarify it's 128 so I have updated the article.

@sallywf @tenstorrent @jimkxa @JasminaVas Utterly insane. Question: on their website, a BlackHole galaxy server is listed as having 32x BlackHole chips, but that doesn't track with this line from the article: "It runs on four new BlackHole-generation Galaxy servers (256 Tenstorrent BlackHole chips)." Which is correct?

.@tenstorrent will launch its new gen cluster-scale systems next week, but in the mean time, Jim Keller @jimkxa and Jasmina Vasiljevic @JasminaVas gave me a sneak preview of their video generation demo running on 256 BlackHole chips (spoiler - it's fast): eetimes.com/tenstorrent-pr…