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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...

Buckle Up! Here’s The Hot News From Nvidia GTC 2024

There is so much to share, so here is our take from Jensen’s Keynote address... After a five year Covid hiatus, Jensen Huang took the stage for an in-person Keynote at the SAP Arena to an adoring crowd of techies and investors. Like in the olden days, the man in the...

d-Matrix Emerges From Stealth With Strong AI Performance And Efficiency

Startup launches “Corsair” AI platform with Digital In-Memory Computing, using on-chip SRAM memory that can produce 30,000 tokens/second at 2 ms/token latency for Llama3 70B in a single rack. Using Generative AI, called inference processing, is a memory-intensive...

What If IBM Z Could Help Stop Fraud?

Last year, IBM launched the z16 with an integrated AI accelerator on each CPU chip. Now, with the infusion of AI into IBM z/OS and a robust AI open-source toolkit, IBM Z customers can realize low-latency AI on a highly trustworthy and secure enterprise system: the...

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

Cadence Design Launches Two New Platforms For Massive Chip Designs

Cadence has updated its platforms that supports chip design teams, offering more than 2X more capacity and 1.5X faster performance than the previous generation and can support chips up to 48 billion gates. Designing and testing chips is constantly becoming more...

As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

New tech shows the synergies that combining CPU, DPU and GPU can enable in AI. Especially in very large AI. After steering a 25% rise in Nvidia shares last week, CEO Jensen Huang flew to Computex in Taipei to announce a slew of new products demonstrating how his...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...

NVIDIA L40S: A Datacenter GPU For Omniverse And Graphics That Can Also Accelerate AI Training & Inference

I’m getting a lot of inquiries from investors about the potential for this new GPU and for good reasons; it is fast! NVIDIA announced a new passively-cooled GPU at SIGGRAPH, the PCIe-based L40S, and most of us analysts just considered this to be an upgrade to the...

Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

The company’s new high bandwidth memory version is only available with the CPU-GPU Superchip. In addition, a new dual Grace-Hopper MGX Board offers 282GB of fast memory for large model inferencing. The AI landscape continues to change rapidly, and fast memory (HBM)...