Application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) are forecast to have a growing share of the inference phase artificial intelligence (AI) edge computing processing power, making up for a projected 70 percent of it by 2025. On the other hand, central processing units (CPUs) will lose their presence by that time.
Edge processor architecture used for AI inference phase in 2017 and 2025*
Characteristic
ASIC
CPU
FPGA
Other
2025
70%
0%
20%
10%
2017
50%
50%
0%
0%
0%25%50%75%100%125%
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