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AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

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The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

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The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

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Beware The AI Benchmarks!

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...

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AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

Don’t Trust AI? NVIDIA Guardrails May Lower Your Anxiety, And Save Your Job.

A new Nemo Open-Source toolkit allow engineers to easily build a front-end to any Large Language Model to control topic range, safety, and security. We’ve all read about or experienced the major issue of the day when it comes to large language models (LLMs). “My LLM...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: An Update

Celebrating its two-year anniversary, the Center announces innovative AI acceleration technologies along with nearly tripling its cadre of memberships. The IBM Research AI Hardware Center is the nexus of a group of academic and industry leaders contributing to the...

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...

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...

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...