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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,...

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...

NVIDIA Continues To Evolve, From Chips To Software To AI Data Centers

Company’s Computex announcements also expand NVIDIA Certified program to DPU and Arm NVIDIA made several announcements this week in Taiwan, launching new software and services to help enterprises enter the age of AI. NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing,...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

The Good, Bad, And Ugly From Supercomputing ‘23, Or Nearby

This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...

Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

$110M In Funding Will Help d-Matrix Get Generative AI Inference Platform To Market

Company sees a window where they can launch their cost-effective solution and get traction ahead of other’s next-gen silicon. d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment firm Temasek. The funding should enable...

In The Latest AI Benchmarks, Nvidia Remains The Champ, But Qualcomm Is Rising Fast

NVIDIA rules the performance roost, Qualcomm demonstrates exceptional power efficiency, and Intel demonstrates the power of software. Every three months, the not-for-profit group MLCommons publishes a slew of peer-reviewed MLPerf benchmark results for deep learning,...

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...

Untether AI Touts “At-Memory” Architecture, Promising Efficiency And Performance At The Edge

Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....