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AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

AI Startup MosaicML Comes Out Of Stealth To Aid AI Developers

Naveen Rao, ex-Nervana and Intel, leads the new company focused on improving the efficiency of AI Training Training a deep neural network takes a lot of computational horsepower. Billions of trillions of multiplications and additions calculate “weights” which are...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

Tenstorrent Shifts Leadership Roles

The Toronto-based startup is growing fast, swapping CEO and CTO roles, and laying out a compelling roadmap for AI and RISC-V. Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based startup who raised over $200M in venture funding at a $1B valuation in May, 2021, has now grown to over 280...

Meta Builds World’s Largest AI Supercomputer With NVIDIA For AI Research And Production

There are big implications, for both companies, beyond just bragging rights. Facebook, I mean Meta, has always been one of the industry leaders when it comes to AI research and deployment. The company processes hundreds of trillions (yes, trillions with a “T”) of...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...

NVIDIA Acquires Bright Computing For Cluster Management

Privately-held Bright is a favorite of HPC users, and will reinforce NVIDIA’s strategy of providing full-stack solutions for Enterprise HPC and AI. Bright Computing has been around since 2009, providing large-scale cluster management for HPC installations. The...

Xilinx Reveals More Versal Details

Xilinx held an “Innovation Day” event this week to share more details about the technologies the company hopes will forge a larger footprint in the data center. After listening to eight presentations and having intriguing discussions with the company’s leading...

Who Needs Big AI Models? Amazon Web Services Using Cerebras Hardware

The AI world continues to evolve rapidly, especially since the introduction of DeepSeek and its followers. Many have concluded that enterprises don't really need the large, expensive AI models touted by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, and are focusing instead on smaller...