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Tenstorrent Launches AI Chip With Conditional Execution

What the heck is that you ask?  So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads.  GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

Nvidia GTC-DC Event Highlights AI, Quantum, And 6G Advances

Nvidia GTC has become not only a key event for AI but has also branched out to Asia, Europe, and Washington, DC to keep developers and buyers up to date on the latest advances in high-performance computing technology. This year's DC event, which kicked off with a...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...

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,...

Qualcomm Technologies AI Software: Broad And Deep AI.

Qualcomm software supports multiple hardware accelerators in both Snapdragon and Cloud implementations, while making it easy for developers. We have taken a deeper look into the software that makes Snapdragon the best AI for mobile devices and enables the Cloud AI100...

AMD To Power ‘El Capitan’ Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...

Nvidia Ups Its Robotics Game With Blackwell-Based Jetson Thor

Nvidia focuses on maximum performance and efficiency. We’ve all heard the predictions: the Next Big Thing will be “Physical AI” (Nvidia) or “Embodied AI” (Qualcomm). Jensen Huang has predicted that in a decade, there will be more robots than humans on Earth. These...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...