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SiFive Lands $175M Financing

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

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...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that 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...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...

NeMo Megatron Reinforces NVIDIA AI Leadership In Large Language Models

LLMs are changing AI, and NVIDIA is changing its platform to excel in this fast-growing field Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this story Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the AI landscape today. Since OpenAI established...

Microsoft Beats Google To The Punch (Bowl), Adds ChatGPT To Bing

That wasn’t that hard, now, was it? The Bingmasters blended the prose results from ChatGPT with advertising revenue generating web urls. I’m switching to Bing! For the last 2 months, everyone (well, investors and the media) has been speculating how ChatGPT could...

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...

Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...