processors
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
Nvidia Unveils 2 New AI Server GPUs and Upcoming Certified Enterprise AI Systems at GTC21
Nvidia GTC21 – With a goal of bringing easier AI to the enterprise, Nvidia is releasing two new AI-targeted GPUs and a line of Nvidia-certified servers from partner manufacturers ...Full Article
Intel Partners Debut Latest Servers Based on the New Intel Gen 3 ‘Ice Lake’ Xeon Scalable Processors
Fresh from Intel’s launch of the company’s latest third-generation Xeon Scalable “Ice Lake” processors on April 6 (Tuesday), Intel server partners Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo simultaneously unveiled ...Full Article
AMD’s Latest Third-Gen Epyc ‘Milan’ CPUs Include AI Implications as Well
A wide range of new third-generation AMD Epyc “Milan” CPUs were unveiled March 15 (Monday) by the chipmaker, from a flagship 64-core model to 8-core versions built for a ...Full Article
Intel Veteran Pat Gelsinger Is Leaving VMware, Returning to Intel as CEO
The Intel board of directors has appointed a new CEO. Intel alum Pat Gelsinger is leaving his post as CEO of VMware to rejoin the company that he parted ...Full Article
Hardware Acceleration of Recurrent Neural Networks: the Need and the Challenges
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown phenomenal success in several sequence learning tasks such as machine translation, language processing, image captioning, scene labeling, action recognition, time-series forecasting, and music ...Full Article
Penguin Computing Brings Cascade Lake-AP to OCP Form Factor
On Monday (July 6), Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., introduced a new Tundra server, Tundra AP, that is the first to implement the Intel Xeon ...Full Article
ISC 2020: Hoefler’s Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides
The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of ...Full Article
Intel Debuts Stratix 10 NX FPGAs Targeting AI Workloads
Intel today introduced its first AI-optimized FPGA – the Stratix 10 NX – which features expanded AI Tensor blocks (30 multipliers and 30 accumulators), integrated HBM memory, and high ...Full Article
Micron Deep Learning Accelerator Gets Memory Boost
Deep learning accelerators based on chip architectures coupled with high-bandwidth memory are emerging to enable near real-time processing of machine learning algorithms. Memory chip specialist Micron Technology argues that ...Full Article
