by Karl Freund | Dec 1, 2021 | In the News
Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...
by Karl Freund | Nov 9, 2021 | In the News
NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...
by Karl Freund | Nov 8, 2021 | In the News
The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...
by Karl Freund | Nov 2, 2021 | In the News
NeuReality is the first Licensee of IBM’s reduced-precision core for AI IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms. IBM and...
by Karl Freund | Nov 1, 2021 | In the News
Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....
by Karl Freund | Oct 27, 2021 | In the News
Upcoming CPU and GPU technologies require increased support for the development community, including eleven new development partners and new tooling. Concurrently, and not coincidently, Amazon announces availability of Intel Habana Gaudi on AWS. In 1997, Pat...
