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Is The AMD GPU Better Than We Thought For AI?

MosaicML, just acquired by DataBricks for $1.3B, published some interesting benchmarks for training LLMs on the AMD MI250 GPU, and said it is ~80% as fast as an NVIDIA A100. Did the world just change? To be brutally honest, everyone wants to see a fight, between AMD...

NovuMind: An Early AI Chip Startup

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently...

New Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Has A Real Shot At The Laptop x86 Market

And laptops are just the beginning of the road for the new Oryon CPU, which will become the primary Qualcomm Arm CPU for all devices, from phones to cars, boasting industry-leading performance and efficiency. “There is a new sheriff in town!” Cristiano Anon, CEO of...

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

Cerebras Builds Its Own AI Supercomputer, Andromeda

Company stood up an AI Exaflop system in just three days! At Supercomputing ‘22 in Dallas, Texas, startup Cerebras has announced the company has created its own supercomputer, much like NVIDIA has done with Selene. The system, called Andromeda, is composed of 16 CS-2...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

IBM Shares Quantum Use Cases In Dazzling New Book

The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has published a beautiful book, good to read and also a substantial addition to any executive office: the fourth edition of The Quantum Decade. The 168-page tome written by over 70 professionals in every industry, clearly...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

CEO's Aart de Geus and Satya Nadella have teamed up to create the industry's first on-demand EDA Software as a Service offering on Microsoft Azure. SYNOPSYS AND MICROSOFT Synopsys and MicrosoftThe two companies have collaborated to enable engineers to design chips...

Cerebras Publishes 7 Trained Generative AI Models To Open Source

The AI company is the first to use Non-GPU tech to train GPT-based Large Language Models and make available to the AI community. The early days of an open AI community, sharing work and building on each other’s success, is over. As there is now much more money at...