AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High
UPDATED Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …
UPDATED Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
Since Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel as chief executive officer in early 2021, the company has bet big on bolstering its manufacturing processes and foundry business, expanded its fab footprint in the United States, and advocated for expanding the country’s chip making capabilities. …
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
The server CPU racket is not an easy one. It would be tough to find a more difficult business, and it gets harder to compete each year as computing becomes more and more focused at the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who demand the best for the least money. …
Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …
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