Preferred Neworks, Inc. (PFN) will be at SEMICON Japan 2024, an international conference for semiconductor industry, which is to be held in Tokyo Big Sight between Wednesday, December 11 and Friday, December 13, 2024. At the PFN booth (#8215, East Hall 8)  in the AI Summit & Startup section, visitors will be able to see demonstrations of MN-Core™ 2 Devkit, the workstation powered by the second generation of PFN’s MN-Core series of AI processors, and MN-Core L1000 for generative AI inference, as well as other PFN products. At the ADIS (Advanced Design Innovation Summit) to be held at the same time, PFN’s CTO of Computer Architecture Junichiro Makino will speak about semiconductor design (interpretation available).

PFN booth (8215, East Hall 8)

• Dates: Wednesday, December 11 and Friday, December 13, 2024  10 am – 5 pm
• Venue: East Hall 8 AI Summit & Startup, Tokyo Big Sight
• Registration: https://www.semiconjapan.org/en/about/pricing-and-register 
• Exhibits:
  – Live demonstrations of MN-Core 2 Devkit
  – MN-Core series of AI processors
  – Matlantis™ universal atomistic simulator for AI-aided materials discovery
  – Other PFN products including PLaMo™ and PreferredAI™

Speaking session

• Time and date: 2:30 – 4:10 pm, Thursday, December 12, 2024
• Place: Reception B, 1st floor, Conference Tower, Tokyo Big Sight
• Speaker: Junichiro Makino, CTO of Computer Architecture, PFN 
• Session: Time to Change Semiconductor Design Environment (Simultaneous interpretation available)
• Title: From the Viewpoint of a Designer of Large-Scale AI Processors