Compute
Why Future Advances In AI Need A New Architecture
Businesses will need to adopt AI technologies not just because they can, but because they must – AI is the technology that will help businesses to be agile, innovate, and scale. …
Compute
Compute
One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum
In the current quantum computing landscape, there are hardware and software providers with the most prominent players doing both. …
Compute
The Lay Of The FPGA Financial Land
As one of the four key engines of compute and networking, we like to keep an eye on what is happening with field programmable gate arrays and the SoCs that incorporate them and have a mix of network and CPU and other accelerator circuits increasingly embedded on them. …
Compute
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle
Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …
Compute
Nvidia Gets Certifiable About Systems
If the emergence of Nvidia in datacenter compute shows anything, it is the value of controlling the software stack as you come to dominate the compute – and the revenue and profits – in the hardware stack. …
Code
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI
While the promise of neuromorphic computing going mainstream is still mostly unrealized, there are steps being taken to bring it closer to reality. …
Cloud
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue
At its heart, and until the day it dies, if a corporation ever really dies, International Business Machines will be a platform company, no matter how much it tries to bamboozle itself or Wall Street or Main Street otherwise. …
Compute
Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected
Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …
Compute
What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel
A little more than a week ago, Intel announced that Pat Gelsinger, its former chief technology officer and former manager of the predecessor of its Data Center Group as well as the current chief executive officer at server virtualization juggernaut VMware, would be returning to the world’s biggest chip maker to be its CEO and to take on the task of rescuing the company from itself and its competition. …
AI
Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces
…With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.