by Karl Freund | Jan 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...
by Karl Freund | Dec 27, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...
by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...
by Karl Freund | Dec 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...
by Karl Freund | Dec 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...
