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Balanced AI Inference Chip Benchmarking Is Underway
If there is anything we are learning about the emerging chip ecosystem for AI inference, it is that it is vast, rapidly evolving, and incredibly diverse. …
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Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
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AI Chip Startup Releases Training Accelerator to Challenge GPUs
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training neural networks. …
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Will Analog AI Make Mythic a Unicorn?
There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. …
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AI Chip Startup Makes Training to Edge Inference Transition
Wave Computing was one of the earliest AI chip startups that held significant promise, particularly with its initial message of a single architecture to handle both training and inference. …
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The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
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Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
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VCs Look Beyond Architecture for Next Chip Success Stories
At The Next AI Platform event in May, we brought together a few leading investors on the deep learning chip front to talk about how they consider architecture, software, competitiveness, and market potential from the various approaches for both training and inference. …
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Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
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HPC or AI: Composability is Still King
Whether we want to term it HPC, AI, hyperscale, or something in between to apply to large-scale enterprise, there are fundamental changes afoot for big organizations with large clusters that are doing double (or quadruple) duty with production workloads and the new integration of machine learning. …