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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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RISC-V Startup Esperanto Technologies Samples First AI Silicon

Select customers are now evaluating the chip; early results look promising across a broad range of AI workloads Esperanto has been talking about their edge AI chips for several years, and now the company can demonstrate working AI acceleration for image, language, and...

$110M In Funding Will Help d-Matrix Get Generative AI Inference Platform To Market

Company sees a window where they can launch their cost-effective solution and get traction ahead of other’s next-gen silicon. d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment firm Temasek. The funding should enable...

IBM Research Secures Future Safe From Quantum Attacks

Quantum computing will bring unimagined innovations to the world when it finally arrives in full glory. Still, quantum remains in the research labs at companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. While companies and research institutions are investing billions of...

IBM To Deploy Quantum System In The Basque Country Of Spain.

127-qubit Quantum System One to advance quantum science in Southern Europe IBM has announced that it has contracted with Fundación Ikerbasque to install and manage a new Quantum computer system, including Qiskit Runtime Services, in the Basque Country. The 127-qubit...

Did AMD Just Beat Nvidia In AI Performance?

AMD, Nvidia and Intel participated in the most recent round of MLPerf inference benchmarks. While I was surprised that Google didn’t participate with their new Ironwood TPU, there is still plenty to talk about. This particular round of MLPerf benchmarks makes it...

AMD Launches 3rd Generation EPYC

AMD’s new EPYC server chip promises better performance than Intel.

AMD To Power ‘El Capitan’ Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...

Does NVIDIA Selene Form A Wider Moat Than CUDA?

The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...