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 20, 2020 | Research Paper
It goes without saying that designing complex semiconductors is an extremely challenging engineering process. While the chips themselves are small, and the individual features on the chips are tiny, as small as 7 nanometers (seven billionths of a meter), the intricacy...
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...
by Karl Freund | Mar 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...
by Karl Freund | Mar 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...
by Karl Freund | Mar 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
As we approach NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference, everyone is anxious to see what CEO Jensen Huang has up his trademark black leather sleeves. I have no idea, but as usual, I have an opinion. An intro to GTC GTC is NVIDIA’s partners’ big annual opportunity to...
by Karl Freund | Mar 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...
by Karl Freund | Feb 21, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...
