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Riding CXL Memory Up In A Down Economy
The jittery economy hasn’t been kind to most semiconductor companies, even those like AMD and Nvidia that are growing in the datacenter. …
Articles by Dylan Martin
HPC
With Cloud HPC Toolkit, Google Pursues HPC, Intel Pushes OneAPI
The people running Google Cloud can see the tides of HPC changing and know that, as we discussed only a few months ago, there is a fairly good chance that more HPC workloads will move to cloud builders over time as their sheer scale increasingly dictates future chip and system designs and the economics of processing. …
News
Tenstorrent Eyes Datacenter Deals With Another Star Hire From AMD
If Jim Keller makes a move, it’s best to watch closely. …
AI
Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie
For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
HPC
Intel Takes The SYCL To Nvidia’s CUDA With Migration Tool
After years of false starts and delays with various products, we are finally at a point where Intel will truly start to test the breadth of its heterogenous computing strategy, thanks to the release of new Gaudi2 machine learning chips from Intel and the upcoming launch of its much-anticipated “Ponte Vecchio” GPU that will power Argonne National Laboratory’s “Aurora” exascale supercomputer. …
Compute
Turning A Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Dream Into Reality
James Clarke believes quantum computing won’t become practical until the industry is making chips crammed with upwards of a million error-corrected quantum bits. …
HPC
NCSA Delta Supercomputer Adopts Slingshot But Forgoes Cray “Shasta” Design
When it comes to supercomputing in academia, the cost of a cluster is almost always an issue and this, coupled with the desire to drive as much compute as possible, drives architectural choices. …
Compute
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …