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Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

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The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

NVIDIA Launches Ampere A100 GPU For Data Center Computing And AI

Figure 1: NVIDIA shared performance comparisons across a range of precisions. Note the huge performance increase for sparse matrix operations. Note the banks of 6 HBM chips. image:NVIDIA While many of us missed watching Jensen Huang on stage in his trademark leather...

Micron Looks To Be First To Market With HBM3 Update For Generative AI And HPC

According to the company, the new Gen-2 of HBM increases memory capacity by 50%, with another bump in the works for 2024. As you may have heard, in addition to NVIDIA GPUs, generative AI eats memory for lunch. And dinner. In fact, running ChatGPT takes 8 or 16 GPUs...

Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

IBM Adds AI Accelerator On Next Generation Z CPU

Transaction processing is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. And with the next generation IBM Z processor, these applications will be able to run accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing directly on the platform, providing real-time analytic insights...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

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...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...

Qualcomm Becomes A Mobile AI Juggernaut.

As we approach Nvidia GTC, its worth noting that there is another player in town. Or south of town, in San Diego: Qualcomm. The company has been building AI expertise and technology for over a decade, and we believe its lead over mobile rivals in both AI hardware and...