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Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

A Look At Graphcore’s AI Software

Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

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...

Tenstorrent Opens Office In Japan To Capitalize On RISC-V + AI

Is the company setting up the first RISC-V HPC win? Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based semiconductor company, now led by the super-star chip designer Jim Keller, has just opened a new office in Japan. So, as many other AI startups are struggling, Tenstorrent is doubling...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...