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IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

by | Jan 31, 2024 |

IBM Research has doubled the capacity of its Vela AI Supercomputer, part of the IBM Cloud, to handle the strong growth in watsonx models and has aggressive plans to continue to expand and enhance AI inferencing with its own accelerator, the IBM AIU. A year ago, IBM...

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NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...
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Who Won The Latest AI Drag Race? AWS Or NVIDIA?

by | June 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...
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Is The AMD GPU Better Than We Thought For AI?

by | June 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

MosaicML, just acquired by DataBricks for $1.3B, published some interesting benchmarks for training LLMs on the AMD MI250 GPU, and said it is ~80% as fast as an NVIDIA A100. Did the world just change? To be brutally honest, everyone wants to see a fight, between AMD...
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IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by | September 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...
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Esperanto Launches AI Accelerator With Over 1000 RISC-V Cores

by | August 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

After delays, the company now has working silicon back from TSMC, with high power efficiency for recommendation engines. Esperanto has announced more details at Hot Chips about its much-anticipated AI accelerator designed for power-efficient inference processing....
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Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by | October 2, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...
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Qualcomm Lays Out New Data Center Roadmap For AI; Meta Buys It

by | June 24, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

At the Qualcomm 2026 Investor Day, the company disclosed it’s data center roadmap and, perhaps more importantly, announced that Meta has entered into a multi-year, multi-generation agreement with Qualcomm to deploy its data center technologies. This is a strong...
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Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...
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Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by | October 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...
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Cerebras Publishes 7 Trained Generative AI Models To Open Source

by | March 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI company is the first to use Non-GPU tech to train GPT-based Large Language Models and make available to the AI community. The early days of an open AI community, sharing work and building on each other’s success, is over. As there is now much more money at...
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