張忠謀，《張忠謀自傳》下冊 (1964-2018)，天下，2024
「下冊」的第一篇「德儀篇」占全書三分之一篇幅，敘述我自 27 歲至 52 歲黃金年齡的崛起及衰退。德儀時期也是我最為熱情澎湃的年代。德儀讓我「獨上高樓，望盡天涯路」；為此，我無比地感激。但是，它對我的培植也激發了我要登上德儀顛峰的雄心。但是，這雄心是無法實現的；不說別的，只看 1970 年代美國德克薩斯州的客觀環境，就可斷定我的雄心很難很難實現。但是我的痴心，居然使我「明知不可為」的情況下，還在德儀多滯留了 5、6 年，後來連婚姻都賠上了。現在回想，那 5、6 年是多麼絕望的 5、6 年！
工業與系統工程學系隸屬於電機資訊學院，所以系上同學們都要修習電路學和電子學相關的課程。在電機系，這些是非常重要的基礎知識；而且，從 IC 設計、晶圓代工、到封裝測試，台灣有許多世界級的領導廠商，所以，值得同學們好好地學習相關的知識。更多資訊。
TaiwanPlus Docs, Inside Micron Taiwan’s Semiconductor Factory (美國美光科技在台灣的工廠，稱為外國直接投資 (Foreign direct investment, FDI))
Yale Engineering Dean's Invited Speaker Series featuring C.C. Wei (魏哲家), CEO, TSMC, 2023/11/15
Vint Lee, Chun Deng, Leena Elzeiny, Pieter Abbeel, and John Wawrzynek, Chip Placement with Diffusion, arXiv:2407.12282.
Chris Miller, Chip War : The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, Scribner, 2022.
洪慧芳譯，晶片戰爭：矽時代的新賽局，解析地緣政治下全球最關鍵科技的創新、商業模式與台灣的未來，天下雜誌，2023
鉅亨網新聞中心，台積電董事長劉德音撰文 談1兆電晶體GPU的到來，2024-03-29
文中指出，從 1997 年擊敗西洋棋人類冠軍的「深藍」，到 2023 年爆火的 ChatGPT，再過 15 年，人工智慧已經發展到可以「合成知識」(synthesize knowledge) 的地步，可以創作詩歌、創作藝術品、診斷疾病、編寫總結報告和電腦程式碼，甚至可以設計與人類製造的積體電路相媲美的積體電路。
Amir Gholami, Sehoon Kim, Zhen Dong, Zhewei Yao, Michael W. Mahoney, Kurt Keutzer, A Survey of Quantization Methods for Efficient Neural Network Inference, arXiv:2103.13630v3.
As soon as abstract mathematical computations were adapted to computation on digital computers, the problem of efficient representation, manipulation, and communication of the numerical values in those computations arose. Strongly related to the problem of numerical representation is the problem of quantization: in what manner should a set of continuous real-valued numbers be distributed over a fixed discrete set of numbers to minimize the number of bits required and also to maximize the accuracy of the attendant computations? This perennial problem of quantization is particularly relevant whenever memory and/or computational resources are severely restricted, and it has come to the forefront in recent years due to the remarkable performance of Neural Network models in computer vision, natural language processing, and related areas. Moving from floating-point representations to low-precision fixed integer values represented in four bits or less holds the potential to reduce the memory footprint and latency by a factor of 16x; and, in fact, reductions of 4x to 8x are often realized in practice in these applications. Thus, it is not surprising that quantization has emerged recently as an important and very active sub-area of research in the efficient implementation of computations associated with Neural Networks. In this article, we survey approaches to the problem of quantizing the numerical values in deep Neural Network computations, covering the advantages/disadvantages of current methods. With this survey and its organization, we hope to have presented a useful snapshot of the current research in quantization for Neural Networks and to have given an intelligent organization to ease the evaluation of future research in this area.
蔡銘仁，打造高效AI推薦系統 林永隆率創鑫智慧挺進世界，EE Times Taiwan，2022-10-27
新創公司創鑫智慧僅成軍第三年，首款人人工智慧(AI)加速晶片就採用成本高昂的台積電7nm製程，吸引業界關注；董事長暨執行長林永隆在半導體業界累積近40年的專業資歷，更讓外界對公司的前景抱有高度期待。他們擘劃的宏大願景，是立志成為世界級的AI加速器供應商。...
David Rotman, 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023, MIT Technology Review, January 9, 2023.
Our annual look at 10 Breakthrough Technologies—including CRISPR for high cholesterol, battery recycling, AI that makes images, and the James Webb Space Telescope—that will have a profound effect on our lives. Plus care robots, 3-D printing pioneers, and chasing bugs on the blockchain.
Fareed Zakaria, On GPS: Can China afford to attack Taiwan?, CNN.
Fareed Zakaria, On GPS: Taiwan's tech under threat?, CNN.
科技部半導體射月計畫 109 年度產學技術交流
This Informal Retreat has been called to discuss how Asia-Pacific can collaborate to move through the COVID health crisis, and to accelerate the post-COVID economic recovery. Chinese Taipei will address these two topics specifically.
馬來西亞的學校提案，準備今年 5 月，開授相關線上演講，以便吸引高中生就讀資訊相關科系。去年12月中開校內協調會的時候，學校長官指派我，負責「數學與資訊工程 」。 月底到了，忙著提科技部計畫和撰寫研究的程式，但是，各種點子不斷地進入我的腦袋裡，只好趕緊把它寫下來，不然半夜進入我的夢鄉，擾人清夢。花了兩天，寫下初稿；最近又多次修正，前後花了不下 20 小時，決定提前定稿 ，以便改作其他教學和研究事務。
後來想一想， 既然這是一個有意義的工作，就準備把他錄成影片，並上傳 YouTube，以幫助有需要的年輕人。追求新知並傳授給學生，一直是我當老師快樂的泉源。
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初稿 2021/1/15。
Inside AI, 2021/4/14
SambaNova, a developer of AI hardware and software systems, raised $676M in financing that values the startup at over $5.1B. The Nvidia competitor makes chips for AI processes, which it uses to build servers and AI software that it leases to other businesses.
