Nvidia Unveils Its A100 80GB GPU Powerhouse Supercomputing Chip
SC20 – Nvidia has doubled the memory of its A100 datacenter GPUs with its new A100 80GB version, which aims to drive new levels of supercomputing-class performance in a ...Full Article
AWS-Designed Inferentia Chips Boost Alexa Performance
Almost two years after unveiling its Inferentia high-performance machine learning inference chips, Amazon has almost completed a migration of the bulk of its Alexa text-to-speech ML inference workloads to ...Full Article
The Present and Future of AI: A Discussion with HPC Visionary Dr. Eng Lim Goh
As HPE’s chief technology officer for artificial intelligence, Dr. Eng Lim Goh devotes much of his time talking and consulting with enterprise customers about how AI can benefit their ...Full Article
Billionaire Investor Vinod Khosla Speaks Out On AI’s Future and the COVID-19 Economy
Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of the former Sun Microsystems and a longtime technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and IT sage, makes billions of dollars betting on new technologies. Khosla shared ...Full Article
AI Chip Makers Must Meet Customer Needs to Gain Design Wins for Success
AI Hardware Summit – With more than 80 AI accelerator chip companies battling for elusive market share around the world, it’s no longer enough for upstart AI chip makers ...Full Article
IDC: AI Spending Expected to Double Globally to $110B by 2024
Global spending on artificial intelligence technologies will double to $110 billion by 2024 as AI use grows to bolster the competitiveness and digital transformations of more businesses and other ...Full Article
Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
Moving neuromorphic technology from the laboratory into practice has proven slow-going. This week, National University of Singapore researchers moved the needle forward demonstrating an event-driven, visual-tactile perception system that ...Full Article
Taiwan Is Open for Business: A COVID-19 Tech Template
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other ...Full Article
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narrowly-defined tasks. AI of the ...Full Article
IoT, Blockchain Merge in USB Device
Just when you figured out blockchain technology, another layer of abstraction and utility is being added: a plug-and-play hardware connection that allows Internet of Things devices to handle blockchain ...Full Article