Cerebras Proposes AI Megacluster with Billions of AI Compute Cores
Chipmaker Cerebras is patching its chips – already considered the world’s largest – to create what could be the largest-ever computing cluster for AI computing. A reasonably sized “wafer-scale ...Full Article
Groq Designs Chip that Hands Over Controls to Software
Groq has deconstructed the conventional CPU, and designed its chip in which software takes over control of the chip. The Groq Tensor Streaming Processor Architecture follows a growing trend ...Full Article
Intel Gives a Name to Data Center GPUs for Cloud Gaming and AI
Intel has been hyping up its media delivery and cloud gaming GPUs codenamed Arctic Sound-M, and has given a formal name: Flex Series GPUs. The Flex Series GPUs will ...Full Article
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
