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Hub and Spoke: DoD Splits $238 Million Across Eight Semiconductor Centers

September 21, 2023 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a slew of states are set to split $238 million in funding from the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act.” …

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SambaNova Tackles Generative AI With New Chip And New Approach

September 20, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you have the entire corpus of the Internet scrubbed of nonsense plus whatever else you can scrounge up in whatever language all put into the right format so you can chew on that data one token at a time with trillions of parameters of interconnections between those tokens to build a large language model for generative AI applications, you have an enormous problem. …

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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon

September 19, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …

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The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration

September 19, 2023 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

Heterogeneous computing is clearly here to stay but now’s the time to get down to brass tacks and start addressing standards, portability, and other elements common to maturing technologies. …

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AMD Finishes Out The Zen 4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena”

September 18, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …

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China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again

September 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …

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Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core?

September 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …

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Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket?

September 6, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is no question in our minds here at The Next Platform that quantum computing, in some fashion, will be part of the workflow for solving some of the peskiest computational problems the world can think of. …

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What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast?

September 1, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …

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Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else

September 1, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

In a world where Nvidia is allocating proportional shares of its GPU hotcakes to all of the OEMs and ODMs, companies like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Supermicro get their shares and then they turn around and try to sell systems using them at the highest possible price. …

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