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Using AI Chips To Design Better AI Chips
Chip design is as much of an art as it is an engineering feat. …
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Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI
In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …
Compute
The Value Proposition For Amazon’s Graviton3 Server Chip
As is well known, we like feed and speeds and slots and watts metrics here at The Next Platform for any kind of gear that runs in the datacenter. …
Compute
The Most Obvious Hyperscaler To Do Custom Chips Was Always Facebook
Et tu, Meta?
Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …
Compute
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture
With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. …
Compute
Nvidia Embraces The CPU World With “Grace” Arm Server Chip
Within a year or so, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server CPUs, it will not be heresy for anyone at Nvidia to believe, or to say out loud, that not every workload in the datacenter needs to have GPU acceleration. …
AI
Graphcore Goes Full 3D With AI Chips
The 3D stacking of chips has been the subject of much speculation and innovation in the past decade, and we will be the first to admit that we have been mostly thinking about this as a way to cram more capacity into a given compute engine while at the same time getting components closer together along the Z axis and not just working in 2D anymore down on the X and Y axes. …
Compute
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
Compute
VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
Compute
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. …