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Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

Who Won The Latest AI Drag Race? AWS Or NVIDIA?

Of course the answer depends on who you ask. There is a quiet drama simmering over AI chip benchmarks. This isn’t the first time, and will certainly not be the last. Keeps me busy. This time, it is between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA. It is always NVIDIA. Not...

AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

Tenstorrent Scores Big Win At LG

The companies will collaborate to build RISC-V, AI, and Video Codec chiplets for future automotive and TV products. We’ve been following the Toronto-based startup Tenstorrent for the last several years, where CEO Jim Keller is now steering multiple advanced designs...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

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...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...

Nvidia Announces Rubin CPX GPU To Speed Long-Context AI

In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...

EDA Vendors Help Intel Get The USA Back Into Chip Manufacturing

The US Semiconductor industry desperately needs to rebuild the country’s ability to produce the advanced chips that are the cornerstone of AI and every electronic device you can imagine. Most of those chips are built today in Taiwan by TSMC. Merely the thought of any...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...