by Karl Freund | Mar 11, 2022 | In the News
Startup also teases $120M Brain-Scale AI “Good Computer” For 2024 Remember Intel’s old Tick-Tock processor roadmap? The company alternated between two approaches, bringing out a new generation featuring architectural enhancements, then subsequently shrinking that chip...
by Karl Freund | Dec 1, 2021 | In the News
Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...
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 | Oct 27, 2021 | In the News
Upcoming CPU and GPU technologies require increased support for the development community, including eleven new development partners and new tooling. Concurrently, and not coincidently, Amazon announces availability of Intel Habana Gaudi on AWS. In 1997, Pat...
by Karl Freund | Oct 5, 2021 | In the News
Qualcomm not only bested the entire field for power efficiency, a 16-card server was the fastest tested. Qualcomm, perhaps best known for its leadership Snapdragon mobile platform, has further enhanced its AI bona fides with V1.1 MLPerf inference benchmark suite...