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Nvidia’s Metaverse Gets New Hardware
Nvidia's grand plan to populate a parallel universe with digital versions of humans and objects will be powered by new hardware. The chip maker introduced a new server called ...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
Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU
Amid the high-performance GPU turf tussle between AMD and Nvidia (and soon, Intel), a new, China-based player is emerging: Biren Technology, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai. At Hot ...Full Article
Nvidia Rethinks Graphics Fundamentals for 3D Internet
Nvidia is making big changes to fundamental graphics technologies as it pursues a kingmaker role of converting the internet from a 2D universe to an interactive 3D world. Some ...Full Article
Intel Reiterates Plans to Merge CPU, GPU High-performance Chip Roadmaps
Intel reiterated it is well on its way to merging its roadmap of high-performance CPUs and GPUs as it shifts over to newer manufacturing processes and packaging technologies in ...Full Article
China Unveils Its First 7nm Chip
Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor Co. is claiming China’s first 7-nanometer chip, described as a leading-edge, general-purpose cloud computing chip based on a proprietary GPU architecture. Dubbed “Big Island” GPGPU, ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Its A100 80GB GPU Powerhouse Supercomputing Chip
SC20 – Nvidia has doubled the memory of its A100 datacenter GPUs with its new A100 80GB version, which aims to drive new levels of supercomputing-class performance in a ...Full Article
With Strong Q2 Earnings, Nvidia’s System Play Comes Into Focus
Nvidia has announced its Q2 2021 earnings: $3.87 billion, outperforming analyst expectations amid a global pandemic and showing signs of a successful (and ongoing) reorientation of its business strategy. ...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
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
