
GPUs
Nvidia’s Proposed $40B Acquisition of Arm Faces Possible Opposition from UK Official: Report
The proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm by GPU powerhouse Nvidia continues to be under review by regulators in the United States, China, the European Union ...Full Article
Enterprises Needing Accelerated Data Analytics and AI Workloads Get Help from Nvidia and Cloudera
In April, Nvidia and Cloudera unveiled a new partnership effort to bring together Nvidia GPUs, Apache Spark and the Cloudera Data Platform to help customers vastly accelerate their data ...Full Article
Better, More Efficient Neural Inferencing Means Embracing Change
Artificial intelligence is running into some age-old engineering tradeoffs. For example, increasing the accuracy of neural networks typically means increasing the size of the networks. That requires more compute ...Full Article
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
Dell Expanding HPC-On-Demand And Server GPU Options, Debuting Omnia Software at ISC21
Dell Technologies is expanding its software product line with Omnia, a new software platform built to help enterprises solve their workload deployment and management requirements, while also providing ‘composable ...Full Article
Nvidia Arm Merger Proposal Gets Support from 3 Rival Chip Companies
Since Nvidia proposed to acquire chip IP vendor Arm last September for $40 billion, several major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft and rival chipmaker Qualcomm, continue to vocally oppose ...Full Article
Intel Unveils Help for Busy Cloud Service Provider CPUs With Its New Infrastructure Processing Units
To boost the performance of busy CPUs hosted by cloud service providers, Intel Corp. has launched a new line of Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) that take over some of ...Full Article
Xilinx Expanding Its Versal Chip Family With 7 New Versal AI Edge Chips Aimed at Edge Workloads
FPGA chip vendor Xilinx has been busy over the last several years cranking out its Versal AI Core, Versal Premium and Versal Prime chip families to fill customer compute ...Full Article
Mythic AI Targets the Edge AI Market with Its New Smaller, More Power-Efficient M1076 Chips
It has been a busy seven months for AI chip startup Mythic AI. Seven months ago, the company unveiled its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing. ...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