Facebook Parent Company Meta to Reequip Data Centers as AI Slips into More Services
Millions of people are using artificial intelligence every month across Meta's platforms, including Facebook, and the company is upgrading its data-center equipment to handle the growing computing load required ...Full Article
Cerebras Proposes AI Megacluster with Billions of AI Compute Cores
Chipmaker Cerebras is patching its chips – already considered the world’s largest – to create what could be the largest-ever computing cluster for AI computing. A reasonably sized “wafer-scale ...Full Article
SambaNova Launches Second-Gen DataScale System
SambaNova Systems is announcing – and shipping – its second-generation DataScale system, the DataScale SN30. Powered by the eponymous Cardinal SN30 RDU (Reconfigurable Data Unit), SambaNova claims that the ...Full Article
Nvidia, Qualcomm Shine in MLPerf Inference; Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Makes an Appearance.
The steady maturation of MLCommons/MLPerf as an AI benchmarking tool was apparent in today’s release of MLPerf v2.1 Inference results. Twenty-one organizations submitted 5,300 performance results and 2,400 power measurement. While ...Full Article
Intel Gives a Name to Data Center GPUs for Cloud Gaming and AI
Intel has been hyping up its media delivery and cloud gaming GPUs codenamed Arctic Sound-M, and has given a formal name: Flex Series GPUs. The Flex Series GPUs will ...Full Article
Tesla Expands Its GPU-Powered AI Supercomputer – Is Dojo Next?
Tesla has revealed that its biggest in-house AI supercomputer – which we wrote about last year – now has a total of 7,360 A100 GPUs, a nearly 28 percent uplift ...Full Article
CXL Brings Datacenter-sized Computing with 3.0 Standard, Thinks Ahead to 4.0
A new version of a standard backed by major cloud providers and chip companies could change the way some of the world’s largest datacenters and fastest supercomputers are built. ...Full Article
IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools
IBM Research’s Deep Search product uses natural language processing (NLP) to “ingest and analyze massive amounts of data—structured and unstructured.” Over the years, Deep Search has seen a wide ...Full Article
Samsung Announces 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM for 30% Faster Speeds
Samsung Electronics announced Thursday it has begun sampling a 16GB Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) DRAM featuring 24-gigabit-per-second processing speeds. The new high-speed memory chips for graphics cards ...Full Article
To Sell More Hardware, Chipmakers Step up to Make AI Straightforward
Hardware makers have spent years and billions of dollars building up wares for AI, but are now asking themselves: how do we make AI straightforward for small and large ...Full Article
