The Latest News in AI

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Arm Adds More AI Firepower

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

NVIDIA DGX Cloud Gives CSPs And Their Customers Exactly What They Want: Fast AI, Fast

NVIDIA’s offering integrates the company’s best GPU hardware and software into AI Supercomputers of virtually any size in the cloud, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI without infrastructure hassles. While some may confuse this as NVIDIA competing with cloud...

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

IBM Research Innovates “Serverless” Approach To Quantum

Quantum computing promises near-miraculous performance, but it comes with a lot of caveats. Most importantly, the problem being solved must be amenable to expression into the quantum “circuits” that can run on todays hardware. But what if only parts of the problem fit...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

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...

NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...