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The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
March 28th, 2025 Comments Off on The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, ...
Intel Announces Lip-Bu Tan as New Chief Executive Officer
March 14th, 2025 Comments Off on Intel Announces Lip-Bu Tan as New Chief Executive Officer
Intel announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a technology veteran with deep semiconductor industry experience, as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Tan was previously ...
Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup
February 27th, 2025 Comments Off on Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup
In September of last year, Intel launched its Xeon 6900P Granite Ridge processors and got themselves back in the game against AMD. This week, Intel continued to expand its processor line with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server ...
DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed
January 31st, 2025 Comments Off on DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed
Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because ...
Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory
January 10th, 2025 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory
At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not ...
Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second
November 19th, 2024 Comments Off on Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second
Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in wafer-scale processing, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, has set another world record and important breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For the first time in the history of the ...
Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI
November 13th, 2024 Comments Off on Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI
Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s ...
AI Exascale: In This Club, You Must ‘Earn the Exa’
October 18th, 2024 Comments Off on AI Exascale: In This Club, You Must ‘Earn the Exa’
There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase “AI Exascale” in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not provide enough information to justify using the term exascale. Those ...
How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World
October 1st, 2024 Comments Off on How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World
There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when prompted has caught people’s ...
Nvidia’s New Blackwell GPU Can Train AI Models with Trillions of Parameters
March 18th, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s New Blackwell GPU Can Train AI Models with Trillions of Parameters
Nvidia's latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company's AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 GPUs. Customers demand more AI performance, and ...