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Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Qualcomm AI Research Innovates 3D Perception Techniques

The trick of AI at the edge is reducing complexity while maintaining accuracy. And that takes a lot of primary research. When we explored the eight “AI Firsts” from Qualcomm AI Research earlier this year, it was clear to us the company’s full-stack approach to AI...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

Synopsys Certifies AI-Lead Design And IP Solutions For Samsung’s 2nm

2nm is the Next Big Thing in chip production, and Synopsys design tools and IP are now ready for production work and tape-outs on Samsung’s latest fab. Samsung has its eyes on the prize, hoping to secure more design wins as it competes with TSMC for the semiconductor...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...

Could AI Help Solve The Global Chip Shortage?

In part, yes. We could tap into unused manufacturing capacity using AI, and Synopsys believes it has the AI that could do it. Today’s chip shortage is holding back global economic growth, fueling inflation, and making life difficult for consumers and businesses alike....

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

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...

Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...

Beware The AI Benchmarks!

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...