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MLPerf 5.1: Nvidia Stays In The Lead While AMD Shows Off Its Latest

The Nvidia juggernaught faces increased competition, but keeps innovating in silicon, software and systems design to keep its No. 1 position in the AI market. The industry standard MLCommons organization has just released the latest benchmarks for inference...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...

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...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

CEO's Aart de Geus and Satya Nadella have teamed up to create the industry's first on-demand EDA Software as a Service offering on Microsoft Azure. SYNOPSYS AND MICROSOFT Synopsys and MicrosoftThe two companies have collaborated to enable engineers to design chips...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

AI Hardware: Harder Than It Looks

The second AI HW Summit took place in the heart of Silicon Valley on September 17-18, with nearly fifty speakers presenting to over 500 attendees (almost twice the size of last year’s inaugural audience). While I cannot possibly cover all the interesting companies on...

Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...