by Karl Freund | May 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
Figure 1: NVIDIA shared performance comparisons across a range of precisions. Note the huge performance increase for sparse matrix operations. Note the banks of 6 HBM chips. image:NVIDIA While many of us missed watching Jensen Huang on stage in his trademark leather...
by Karl Freund | May 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...
by Karl Freund | Apr 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
What the heck is that you ask? So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads. GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...
by Karl Freund | Apr 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...
by Karl Freund | Apr 10, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...
by Karl Freund | Apr 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
Intel certainly has a lot of irons in the AI fireplace, including Xeon CPUs, Movidius computer vision chips, MobileEye chips for autonomous driving and Deep Neural Network training and inference processing technology from the newly acquired Habana Labs. With all of...
