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A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

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The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

As we said, Google is the Exception to the Rule!

The latest TPU and the upcoming Ironwood supercomputer were just the start Google is taking the next step in its quest to become a serious challenger to Nvidia GPUs. As I recently noted in my post on CSP silicon costs and failures, Google is the exception. Google...

Perceive AI Launches 2nd Edge AI Chip For Low Power Applications

Company claims Ergo2 is up to four times faster than Perceive’s first-generation Ergo chip, and can handle much larger models such as NLP. Edge AI is coming into its own, with a variety of chips being launched that offer low cost, low power, and high performance....

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...

Cerebras Systems Lays The Foundation For Huge Artificial Intelligence

Startup announces technology to enable a 120-trillion-parameter model on the way to brain-scale AI. OK, I thought I was done with preparing for HotChips, having prepared six blogs and three research papers. I was ready to take a few days off. Nonetheless, I decided to...

MediaTek Aims To Become A Player In Huge Markets

MediaTek mobile phone SoCs have historically been considered a) Asian, and b) low end. Thats all about to change with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which also enables entry into markets like the IoT and automotive, where the company is partnering with Nvidia for Advanced...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

Most of the investment buzz in AI hardware concentrates on the amazing accelerator chips that crunch the math required for neural networks, like Nvidia’s GPUs. But what about the rest of the story? CPUs and NICs that pre- and post-process the query add significant...

NVIDIA Launches New GPUs And Services for Generative AI Inferencing

A new PCI-card with 12 times more inference throughput for large models like ChatGPT and NeMo services for Foundation Model customizations. Jensen Huang was thoroughly enjoying his virtual stage time at this year's GTC event. Why not? His company’s stock is up 80%...

Agentic AI Reshapes Nvidia Strategy Beyond GPUs At GTC

Donning his signature black leather jacket, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang once again wowed his fans, totaling over 30,000 in the San Jose’s SAP Arena, with dazzling technology and extreme claims, including the company’s first post-GPU product. Agentic AI took...