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...
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 | Sep 14, 2021 | In the News
The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event… Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...
