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AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

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Intel Challenges AMD And NVIDIA With New AI Technologies Amid Renewed Developer Commitments

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...

Will NVIDIA Enter The Race For Quantum Computing?

Well, not directly. However, the company is making it easier to develop code for quantum machines using GPUs. Ok, let's face it. Programming quantum computers is hard. REALLY hard. While we do not expect NVIDIA to develop and market their own quantum system any time...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

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’...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

IBM Research has doubled the capacity of its Vela AI Supercomputer, part of the IBM Cloud, to handle the strong growth in watsonx models and has aggressive plans to continue to expand and enhance AI inferencing with its own accelerator, the IBM AIU. A year ago, IBM...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Xilinx Readies Versal AI Edge For 2022 Availability

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...

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...