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Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

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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...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

New tech shows the synergies that combining CPU, DPU and GPU can enable in AI. Especially in very large AI. After steering a 25% rise in Nvidia shares last week, CEO Jensen Huang flew to Computex in Taipei to announce a slew of new products demonstrating how his...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed three algorithms co-developed by IBM Research, which are used to protect sensitive infrastructure and data from attacks by bad actors using Quantum Computers to break the existing encryption. As...

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...

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Loihi 2 AI HW And Lava SW

Intel Research believes that brain-like Neuromorphic computing could hold the key to AI efficiency and capabilities. Intel has announced the availability of the second generation “Loihi” chip to further research into neuromorphic computing techniques that more closely...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

The View From The AI HW Summit: What Was The Best AI HW In 2021?

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...