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NVIDIA Again Claims The Title For The Fastest AI; Competitors Disagree

Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...

NVIDIA AI Runs The Mlperf Table Again

Today, the industry standard AI benchmarking group, mlperf, released its 3rd raft of submissions for training AI networks, and just like the first two releases, NVIDIA swept a sparse competitive field in the category of commercially available hardware and software....

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

Everyone is not just talking about AI inference processing; they are doing it. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report this week forecasting that global generative AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025, growing 76.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, MarketsandMarkets...

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...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...

Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...

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)...

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...