The Latest News in AI

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Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

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...

Hot Chips Concludes An Amazing Lineup of AI Chip Companies.

Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

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...

Tenstorrent Scores Big Win At LG

The companies will collaborate to build RISC-V, AI, and Video Codec chiplets for future automotive and TV products. We’ve been following the Toronto-based startup Tenstorrent for the last several years, where CEO Jim Keller is now steering multiple advanced designs...

Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....