by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News
For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...
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 | Sep 15, 2021 | In the News
The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a “Domain-Specific Architecture” strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...
by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News
Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...
by Karl Freund | Jun 9, 2021 | In the News
Platform includes updated AI Engine with 4- and 8-bit integer math, along with new memory architecture. Xilinx has just launched the first edge model of the flexible Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family, the third Versal to be announced in...