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
Intel’s 30x AI Performance Aim for Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs May Not Solve All AI Needs: Analysts
With its upcoming Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, designed as the next generation of Intel Xeon CPUs after Ice Lake and slated for release in 2022, chipmaker Intel Corp. is ...Full Article
Language Model Training Gets Another Player: Inspur AI Research Unveils Yuan 1.0
Hot on the heels of recent GPT language model product news from SambaNova, Microsoft and Nvidia, China-based Inspur AI Research has announced its Yuan 1.0 language model, which has ...Full Article
Shortage of Chips Hurts AI, But Problems Go Deeper
The impacts of the chip shortage can be spotted everywhere: from higher prices on home appliances to empty new car lots to higher prices for consumer devices. Processor-hungry AI ...Full Article
Arm Says Its New Cloud-Enabled IoT Platform Carves 2 Years Off IoT Product Development
As IoT has soared in adoption and use, the IoT development process has stubbornly fallen behind, still requiring up to five years between a product concept and its eventual ...Full Article
With $136M in Fresh Series C Funding, AI Chipmaker Hailo Aims to Grow Its Edge AI Products, Services
Four years after launching its AI chip business for edge uses such as autonomous vehicles and IoT devices, Israel-based Hailo just secured another $136 million in Series C funding ...Full Article
Cerebras Touts Linear Scaling up to 192 CS-2 Systems with Wafer Scale to ‘Brain-Scale’ Approach
Wafer-scale computing company Cerebras Systems has unveiled more details about its “brain-scale” approach for running the largest models in the world across up to 192 CS-2 systems. To enable ...Full Article
