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NovuMind: An Early AI Chip Startup

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

IBM Shares AI Strategy And A Wealth Of Customer AI Results

Under CEO Arvind Krishna’s leadership and AI’s momentum, IBM has truly transformed its business, technology, and leadership. I should know; I worked there as an exec from 2000 to 2010. Now IBM is all about AI and Hybrid Cloud, with Quantum computing in sight. Lucky...

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....

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

Need A Chat-Bot For Your Business? Try NVIDIA NeMo.

Nemo can help organizations tailor AI Models to focus on a smaller domain; and perhaps avoid costly mistakes! Lesley Stahl: “Oh, my god. It's wrong!” The veteran reporter was aghast that Microsoft Bing could get something so easy so wrong. Ms. Stahl was interviewing...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...