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Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...

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Eight Takeaways From NVIDIA GTC

New Hopper GPU, Grace Superchips, New OGX Server for Omniverse, Faster networking, New DGX Servers & Pods, Enterprise AI Software, 60 updated SDKs, Next-Gen Hyperion Drive, Omniverse Cloud, ... I could go on and on! But neither of us has the time, so... GTC always...

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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...

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Did AMD Just Beat Nvidia In AI Performance?

AMD, Nvidia and Intel participated in the most recent round of MLPerf inference benchmarks. While I was surprised that Google didn’t participate with their new Ironwood TPU, there is still plenty to talk about. This particular round of MLPerf benchmarks makes it...

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)...

The US CHIPS Act Shines Spotlight On IBM Semiconductor Technology

The recent legislation creates an opportunity for IBM to play a pivotal role in a resurgent US semi industry. One day, soon I hope, I hope to write a story about IBM hardware without first correcting the misconception that the IT company has exited the hardware...

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....

How Might OpenAI Outcomes Impact Nvidia, AMD, Intel And Microsoft?

The story keeps changing, but one thing is for sure. There will be one more AI vendor who will need tens of thousands of new GPUs. As the Loony Tunes saga continues, thanks to the OpenAI board of directors (”Th.. Th.. Th.. That’s all, Folks!”), a ton of meetings in...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

NVIDIA Keeps The Performance Crown For AI Inference For The 6th Time In A Row

In The Data Center And On The Edge, the bottom line is that the H100 (Hopper-based) GPU is up to four times faster than the NVIDIA A100 on the newly released ​MLPerf V2.1 benchmark suite. The A100 retains leadership in many benchmarks versus other available products...

Is The New AMD MI300X Better Than The NVIDIA H100?

AMD disclosed a few more details on the MI300 GPU, due later this year, with support for 192GB of memory on the MI300X. Here’s what we know. In today’s world of ChatGPT, everyone keeps asking if the NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs are the only platforms that can deliver the...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...