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
GlobalFoundries Has Started Its IPO Process – Now What?
Since July, semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries has been the subject of rumors and news reports that said the company was the takeover target of market leader Intel Corp. or that ...Full Article
Nvidia GPUs Stay in Lead In Latest MLPerf Inference Results, but CPUs and Intel Gaining Ground
Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf inference benchmark (v 1.1) results when they were unveiled Sept. 23 (Thursday), sweeping the top spots in the closed data center ...Full Article
From Moore’s Law to SysMoore: AI, Chip Design and How Gordon Moore’s Idea Might Be Changing
Since 1965, Moore’s law – engineer Gordon Moore’s astute observation that the number of transistors on chips will double each year to keep up with the needs of technology ...Full Article
Cerebras Brings Its Wafer-Scale Engine AI System to the Cloud
Five months ago, when Cerebras Systems debuted its second-generation wafer-scale silicon system (CS-2), co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman hinted of the company’s coming cloud plans, and now those plans ...Full Article
Esperanto Now Testing Its Fledgling 1,092-Core RISC-V ET-SoC-1 Chips
Back in December, Esperanto Technologies made waves when it announced ET-SoC-1, a new RISC-V-based chip aimed at machine learning that packed nearly 1,100 cores onto a package small enough ...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
IBM’s Upcoming Z Series Chip Gains On-Chip AI Acceleration and New Name: Telum
In a major refresh of its Z Series chips, IBM is adding on-chip AI acceleration capabilities to allow enterprise customers to perform deep learning inferencing while transactions are taking ...Full Article
GlobalFoundries Attempting to Derail Acquisition by Intel Through an IPO of Its Own: Report
In July, reports that Intel is pursuing a $30 billion acquisition of chip fab operation GlobalFoundries threw the chip market into a tizzy, with Intel declining to comment and ...Full Article
Inference Chip Vendor Untether AI Brings in $125M In Oversubscribed Round B Funding
Untether AI, which specializes in AI inferencing chips for neural networks, cloud infrastructure and more, recently sought $100 million in new Round B funding for its operations and growth. ...Full Article
