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Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

MLPerf Training 4.0: It’s All About Scale

While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...

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’...

If The Arm Deal Fails, NVIDIA Is Fine, But Arm May Struggle

European regulators are again expressing concerns about the impact on competition. But the alternatives for Arm could be worse. NVIDIA does not need to acquire Arm to keep growing like a weed. The acquisition would add to NVIDIA’s revenue and growth, to be sure, but...

Synopsys Touts Smart “DesignDash” To Help Accelerate Chip Projects

Many chip design teams use internally developed tools or a mix of vendor tools to manage the development workflow. Now Synopsys is applying ML and Big Data analytics to inform a comprehensive dashboard to improve productivity and the end-to-end design process. Every...

With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

The Good, Bad, And Ugly From Supercomputing ‘23, Or Nearby

This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...

NVIDIA Launches Lovelace GPU, Cloud Services, Ships H100 GPUs, New Drive Thor, And ….

It’s impossible to convey the excitement of an NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote address at GTC, but here’s what caught my eye this week. NVIDIA made a slew of technology and customer announcements at the Fall GTC this year. Highlights included an H100 update, a new...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Qualcomm

Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter.  The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...