by Karl Freund | Apr 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor
The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...
by Karl Freund | Apr 15, 2021 | Video
Karl discusses AI at NVIDIA with Steve Oberlin, CTO of data center acceleration. Steve discusses the AI journey at NVIDIA, and the culture fostered by CEO Jensen Huang to always strive for the “speed of light”. More Cambrian-AI Visions Video Interviews...
by Karl Freund | Apr 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...
by Karl Freund | Apr 12, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models. For 12 years, NVIDIA has used its Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to amaze its customers and investors with new GPUs for graphics and application...
by Karl Freund | Apr 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...
