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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

IBM Announces Next Telum Mainframe Processor With AI Accelerators

IBM has announced the Telum II Processor with shared on-chip AI and, perhaps surprisingly, the Spyre Accelerator, delivered on a PCIe card and designed to accelerate AI models, including LLM Generative AI. The new chips will ship in the yet-to-be-announced...

SiMa.ai Sets A New Standard In Embedded Edge Power Efficiency

For power-constrained edge applications, SiMa tops the leader, NVIDIA Orin, according to the company’s recent MLPerf results and more. There’s big AI like ChatGPT, and then there is useful AI embedded at the edge. At in these environments, available power could be...

Qualcomm Has Become A Leader In Automotive Automation

Qualcomm's auto-related revenue jumped 87% year over year in the second quarter this year, well ahead of rivals Nvidia and Mobileye. Qualcomm estimated its automotive pipeline to be $45B earlier this year, double that of the previous year. Qualcomm's automotive...

Synopsys Lays Out The Benefits Of AI

At the annual Synopsys User Group Meeting, CEO Aart de Geuss explains the industry dynamics in an engineering world transformed by AI. I won’t start this blog by talking about Chat GPT. You’re tired of hearing about it, right? But the same technology (reinforcement...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...