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Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Arm-based Virtual Machines
Further evidence of the blossoming diversity of architectures offered in the cloud arrived this week with the news that Ampere Altra Arm-based processors have been added to Microsoft’s Azure ...Full Article
Nvidia Reportedly Backing Away From its Proposed $40B Arm Acquisition
For GPU-maker Nvidia, it was not supposed to end this way, with the company giving up on its grandiose plans to acquire chip IP vendor, Arm Ltd. But after ...Full Article
Ceremorphic Touts Its HPC Silicon Technology for Supercomputing and Exits Stealth
In a market still filling with fledging silicon chips, Ceremorphic, Inc. has exited stealth and is telling the world about what it calls its patented new ThreadArch multi-thread processor ...Full Article
Are the Wheels Falling Off on the Nvidia-Arm Deal?
Nvidia’s 14-month-long, $40 billion proposal to acquire chip IP vendor Arm has hit another potential regulatory roadblock after being hit with two earlier challenges in Europe since October. This ...Full Article
Nvidia: U.S. Federal Trade Commission Is Reviewing the Proposed $40B Arm Acquisition
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been added to the growing list of government agencies around the world that are reviewing the proposed $40 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Arm ...Full Article
France’s Jean Zay Supercomputer Getting a Major Nvidia A100 Power Boost for AI Research
Since coming online in the fall of 2019 in Paris, the Jean Zay supercomputer has been one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers available to HPC and AI researchers. And ...Full Article
Update: UK Orders In-Depth Antitrust Investigation into Proposed $40B Nvidia Arm Acquisition
With antitrust and national security concerns continuing amid the proposed $40 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Arm Ltd. by Nvidia, the British government today (Nov. 16) ordered an in-depth, 24-week ...Full Article
UK Government Delving Deeper into Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Proposal: Report
The British government will reportedly soon order an in-depth antitrust investigation into the proposed $40 billion Nvidia acquisition of Arm, following a similar investigation that was undertaken just three ...Full Article
Cerebras Systems Expanding its Wafer-Scale Computing Tech with $250M in New Funding
Wafer-scale compute vendor Cerebras Systems has raised another $250 million in funding – this time in a Series F round that brings its total funding to about $720 million. ...Full Article
Nvidia Debuts Enterprise-Focused 530B Megatron Large Language Model and Framework at Fall GTC21
Bringing large language model (LLM) capabilities directly to enterprises to help them expand their business strategies and capabilities is the focus of Nvidia’s new NeMo Megatron large language framework ...Full Article
