With Approvals in from the EC and the UK, AMD’s $35B Acquisition of Xilinx Now up to China
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European ...Full Article
Latest MLPerf Results See Intel, Graphcore, Google Increase Their Presence Behind Nvidia
While Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf training benchmark results, the range of participants has expanded. Yes, Google’s forthcoming TPU v4 performed well, but competitors also shined. ...Full Article
Intel CEO Gelsinger Makes Exec Changes, Revamps AI and Data Center, Network and Edge Groups
Four months after taking over the reins of Intel Corp., CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced a string of executive leadership changes as he works to shake things up inside ...Full Article
With ‘Dojo’ in the Future, Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
Tesla first made a cryptic reference to it's project Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing, in 2019. Later, in the summer of 2020, Tesla CEO Elon ...Full Article
Incoming Qualcomm CEO Says He May Have a Better Idea About Nvidia’s Proposed Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia may have announced its blockbuster $40 billion acquisition plans for chip IP vendor Arm back in September 2020, but now the incoming CEO of chip vendor Qualcomm is ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands Its Certified Server Models, Unveils DGX SuperPod Subscriptions at Computex 2021
Nvidia is busy this week at the virtual Computex 2021 Taipei technology show, announcing an expansion of its nascent Nvidia-certified server program, a range of new Nvidia BlueField DPU-equipped ...Full Article
Google’s Latest TPU v4 to Play Big Role in Google’s Growing ML Training Compute Services
GOOGLE I/O 2021 – Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at ...Full Article
Toyota, GM Sign Tech Partners to Expand Vehicle Advanced Driver-Assistance Capabilities
With cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. ...Full Article
With $70M in New Series C Funding, Mythic AI Plans Mass Production of Its Inferencing Chips
Six months after unveiling its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing, Mythic AI has just received a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring ...Full Article
AI Startup NeuReality Aims Its Inference Platform to ‘Replace Outdated AI System Architecture’
Only three months after emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding, Israeli AI startup NeuReality has revealed plans for its all-new NR1-P novel AI-centric inference platform, which ...Full Article
