Compute
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
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AI
Doing The Math On CPU-Native AI Inference
A number of chip companies — importantly Intel and IBM, but also the Arm collective and AMD — have come out recently with new CPU designs that feature native Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related machine learning (ML). …
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The Chip Has Hit The Fan
If you are a designer of chips based on the most advanced processes available from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and your roadmap is based on the company’s continuing progress and prowess in pushing Moore’s Law to the limit, then not only is the future in your roadmaps being pushed out, but you are going to have to pay more for whatever chips you are making now and, we suspect, the chips you are depending on for your business in the future. …
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The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics
When money is really no object, and the budget negotiations involve taking a small slice of your personal net worth of $7.5 billion out of one pocket and putting it into another, and you have the technical chops to understand the complexities of molecular dynamics, and have a personal mission to cure disease, then you can build any damned supercomputer you want. …
Compute
Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be A Bridge Too Far
It is pretty obvious to everyone who watches the IT market that Intel needs an architectural win that leads to a product win in datacenter compute. …
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IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
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Intel Finally Gets Chiplet Religion With Server Chips
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
AI
With AMX, Intel Adds AI/ML Sparkle to Sapphire Rapids
All processor designs are the result of a delicate balancing act, perhaps most touchy in the case of a high performance CPU that needs to be all things to users, whether they’re running large HPC simulations, handling transaction processing, dispatching training runs or whipping out inference results. …
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Maybe Nvidia Should Buy VMware Instead Of Intel
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Compute
Mainstream Waferscale Closer Than It May Appear
The term “mainstream” in the context of the largest systems on the planet still only means a select few. …