Nvidia's new Spectrum-X and Quantum-X photonic switches. (Source: Nvidia)
Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches
Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the ...Full Article
Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever
At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell ...Full Article
NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?
All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Alibaba Launches C930 RISC-V Chip Amid Shift from Western Tech
Damo Academy, Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, has launched its first server-grade central processing unit (CPU), according to a recent piece in the South China Morning Post.* Designed for server-level, ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Quantum and AI: A Marriage Made of Valid Expectations or Hype?
Editor’s Note: The blending of Quantum and AI — QuantumAI — is a hot topic currently. What exactly does that mean? HPCwire asked Bob Sutor, a longtime high-tech researcher ...Full Article
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape ...Full Article
DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World
The AI world has been taken by storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the ...Full Article
MLPerf Training 3.0 Showcases LLM; Nvidia Dominates, Intel/Habana Also Impress
As promised, MLCommons added a large language model (based on GPT-3) to its MLPerf training suite (v3.0) and released the latest round of results yesterday. Only two chips took ...Full Article
