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...
by Karl Freund | Apr 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor
And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...
by Karl Freund | Mar 23, 2021 | In the News
New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...
by Karl Freund | Mar 19, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...
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...
