by Karl Freund | Mar 15, 2021 | In the News
While Gigabyte builds EPYC Server with Qualcomm AI Chips! Honestly, I struggled to decide which of these two announcements deserves headline status. Both are pretty exciting. One extends AMD’s leadership over Intel for server CPUs, and the other combines these fast...
by Karl Freund | Mar 13, 2021 | Video
Jonathan Ross co-founded Groq after he left Google, where he began the project to create the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). In this video, he talks about a few clients who are evaluating the Groq streaming processor for AI as well as non-AI...
by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2021 | In the News
I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...
by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2021 | In the News
IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...
by Karl Freund | Mar 4, 2021 | In the News
Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter. The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...
