New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Adds Graphcore’s IPU
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer its intelligent processing units on the Azure cloud, making Microsoft the first large public cloud vendor ...Full Article
AMD Gains Design Win for Tencent Server
Tencent, the Chinese cloud giant, said it would use AMD’s newest Epyc processor in its internally-designed server. The design win adds further momentum to AMD’s bid to erode rival ...Full Article
SC19: AI and Machine Learning Sessions Pepper Conference Agenda
AI and HPC are increasingly intertwined – machine learning workloads demand ever increasing compute power – so it’s no surprise the annual supercomputing industry shindig, SC19 at the Colorado ...Full Article
Intel AI Summit: New ‘Keem Bay’ Edge VPU, AI Product Roadmap
At its AI Summit today in San Francisco, Intel touted a raft of AI training and inference hardware for deployments ranging from cloud to edge and designed to support ...Full Article
AI Inference Benchmark Bake-off Puts Nvidia on Top
MLPerf.org, the young AI-benchmarking consortium, has issued the first round of results for its inference test suite. Among organizations with submissions were Nvidia, Intel, Alibaba, Supermicro, Google, Huawei, Dell ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches Credit Card-Sized 21 TOPS Jetson System for Edge Devices
Nvidia has launched what it claims to be the world’s smallest supercomputer, an addition to its Jetson product line with a credit card-sized (70x45mm) form factor delivering up to ...Full Article
Chips Hit a New Low with ‘Valleytronics’
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum ...Full Article
Free GPUs? Startup Hopes Free Is Right Price for GPU Cloud Service
GPUs are famously expensive – high end Nvidia Teslas can be priced well above $10,000. Now a New York startup, Paperspace, has announced a free cloud GPU service for ...Full Article
IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there ...Full Article
