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...
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 | 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...
