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AI Recommendation Systems Get A GPU Makeover
Like their US-based counterparts, Google and Amazon, the Chinese Internet giants Baidu and Alibaba rely on GPU acceleration to drive critical parts of their AI-based services. …
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Intel Hedges Its AI Bets With Habana Labs Buy
Intel has made another big move toward its ambition to dominate the artificial intelligence space in the datacenter, acquiring Israeli AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2 billion. …
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Nvidia Moves Clara Healthcare AI To The Edge
Nvidia has for years made artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets – such as machine learning and deep learning – a foundation of future growth and sees it as a competitive advantage against rival Intel and a growing crop of smaller chip maker and newcomers looking to gain traction in a rapidly evolving IT environment. …
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Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space
During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …
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Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips
At this year’s Intel AI Summit, the chipmaker demonstrated its first-generation Neural Network Processors (NNP): NNP-T for training and NNP-I for inference. …
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MLPerf Inference Results Offer Glimpse into AI Chip Performance
There is much at stake in the world of datacenter inference and while the market has not yet decided its winners, there are finally some new metrics in the bucket to aid decision-making. …
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Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers
It’s par for the course for AI chip startups to focus on peak performance on outdated benchmarks to appeal to the hardware folks who might give their gear a go for deep learning training or inference. …
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A Look Inside the Groq Approach to AI Inference
If the only thing you really know to date about machine learning chip startup, Groq, is that it is led by one of the creators of Google’s TPU and that will target inference, don’t worry, you didn’t miss something. …
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Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip
It would be convenient for everyone – chip makers and those who are running machine learning workloads – if training and inference could be done on the same device. …
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Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …