Author: Steven Woo

Steven Woo
Steven Woo is a Fellow and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus Inc. Since joining Rambus, Steve has worked in various roles leading architecture, technology, and performance analysis efforts, and in marketing and product planning roles leading strategy and customer programs. Steve has over 30 patents in the areas of memory, memory systems, and neural networks. Steve received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and Master of Engineering and BS Engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College.

Memory Systems for AI: Part 6

In part 5 of this series, we discussed the most common memory systems that are used in the highest performance AI applications. These include on-chip memory, high bandwidth memory (HBM)

Read More »

Memory Systems for AI: Part 5

In part four of this series, we took a closer look at the Roofline model, a modern computer architecture tool that illustrates how applications like artificial intelligence (AI) programs perform

Read More »

Memory Systems for AI: Part 4

In part three of this series, we discussed how a Roofline model can help system designers better understand if the performance of applications running on specific processors is limited more

Read More »

Memory Systems for AI: Part 3

In part two of this series, we took a closer look at how the upcoming deployment of 5G technology will enable processing at the edge, and how the industry is

Read More »

Memory Systems for AI: Part 2

In part one of this series, we discussed how the world’s digital data is growing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. In fact, there’s so much digital data in the

Read More »
Steven Woo

About Steven Woo

Steven Woo is a Fellow and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus Inc. Since joining Rambus, Steve has worked in various roles leading architecture, technology, and performance analysis efforts, and in marketing and product planning roles leading strategy and customer programs. Steve has over 30 patents in the areas of memory, memory systems, and neural networks. Steve received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and Master of Engineering and BS Engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College.
Image of Data Center
Steven Woo

Memory Systems for AI: Part 2

In part one of this series, we discussed how the world’s digital data is growing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. In fact, there’s so

Read More »
Neural Networks
Steven Woo

Memory Systems for AI: Part 1

There has been quite a lot of recent news about domain-specific processors that are being designed for the artificial intelligence (AI) market. Interestingly, many of

Read More »
Rambus logo