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
AI Startups Continue to Rack Up Millions in VC Funding in August 2021
Usually, August is the time of the hot, uncomfortable dog days of summer, but for a sampling of five AI startups, the last full month of summer has been ...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
Nvidia Makes Its Enterprise AI Software Generally Available to Users
After months in early release, Nvidia today announced the general availability of Nvidia AI Enterprise, a new software offering that’s designed to bring AI capabilities to the masses via ...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
Tesla Reveals More Design Details of Its Modular ‘Dojo’ Supercomputer & D1 Chip
Two months ago, Tesla revealed a massive GPU cluster that it said was “roughly the number five supercomputer in the world,” and which was just a precursor to Tesla’s real supercomputing ...Full Article
UK Regulatory Agency Says Proposed $40B Nvidia Deal for Arm ‘Would Lessen Competition’
Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm has hit a major roadblock after a report from a U.K. regulatory agency criticized the deal, saying it could ...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
Baidu Brain 7.0 AI Platform Announced; Baidu Kunlun II AI Chips Now in Mass Production
The latest version of Baidu’s open AI platform, Baidu Brain 7.0, has been launched by the Chinese technology company, which also announced that its Kunlun II AI chips are ...Full Article
AI Has Central Role in Helping Verizon Build Out its 5G Cell Tower Network
For years, Verizon engineers have been using a laborious process of spreadsheets and manual data crunching to figure out the best locations for where to install the company’s huge ...Full Article
