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Intel Habana Launches 2nd Gen AI Chips

Habana launches new chips for training and inference, claiming 2X performance advantage over last generation NVIDIA A100 Habana launched their 1st chip at the inaugural Kisaco AI Hardware Summit in 2018 with excellent performance and efficiency. Unfortunately for...

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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...

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The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

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...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

Don’t Trust AI? NVIDIA Guardrails May Lower Your Anxiety, And Save Your Job.

A new Nemo Open-Source toolkit allow engineers to easily build a front-end to any Large Language Model to control topic range, safety, and security. We’ve all read about or experienced the major issue of the day when it comes to large language models (LLMs). “My LLM...