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Speeding AI With Co-Processors

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...

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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...

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...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

NVIDIA Is Not A Chip Company. It’s A Platform Company.

NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

What Is Driving The Divergence Between AI Analyst Targets And Reality

Have you noticed a disturbing trend lately in your AI stocks? As analysts continue to increase their earnings and price projections for popular AI stocks, the prices continue to decline. All in spite of massive revenue growth projections. Yahoo Finance tallies the...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...