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
Cerebras Builds ‘Exascale’ AI Supercomputer
Cerebras is putting down stakes to be a player in the AI cloud computing with a supercomputer called Andromeda, which achieves over an exaflops of “AI performance.” The company ...Full Article
Nvidia Introduces New Ada Lovelace GPU Architecture, OVX Systems, Omniverse Cloud
In his GTC keynote today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched another new Nvidia GPU architecture: Ada Lovelace, named for the legendary mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer. The ...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
Groq Designs Chip that Hands Over Controls to Software
Groq has deconstructed the conventional CPU, and designed its chip in which software takes over control of the chip. The Groq Tensor Streaming Processor Architecture follows a growing trend ...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
Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Arm-based Virtual Machines
Further evidence of the blossoming diversity of architectures offered in the cloud arrived this week with the news that Ampere Altra Arm-based processors have been added to Microsoft’s Azure ...Full Article
Nvidia Reportedly Backing Away From its Proposed $40B Arm Acquisition
For GPU-maker Nvidia, it was not supposed to end this way, with the company giving up on its grandiose plans to acquire chip IP vendor, Arm Ltd. But after ...Full Article
Ceremorphic Touts Its HPC Silicon Technology for Supercomputing and Exits Stealth
In a market still filling with fledging silicon chips, Ceremorphic, Inc. has exited stealth and is telling the world about what it calls its patented new ThreadArch multi-thread processor ...Full Article
Are the Wheels Falling Off on the Nvidia-Arm Deal?
Nvidia’s 14-month-long, $40 billion proposal to acquire chip IP vendor Arm has hit another potential regulatory roadblock after being hit with two earlier challenges in Europe since October. This ...Full Article