Compute
Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe
It would be hard to pick a worse time to not have an XPU offload engine that can do lots of matrix math at mixed precision and that can ship in volume. …
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Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
AI
Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way
The steady rise of AI over the past several years – and the accelerated growth with the introduction generative AI since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 – has shifted Intel’s status as a challenger in a chip market that it long had dominated. …
AI
Inside The Massive GPU Buildout At Meta Platforms
If you handle hundreds of trillions of AI model executions per day, and are going to change that by one or two orders of magnitude as GenAI goes mainstream, you are going to need GPUs. …
Compute
Intel: I Was Lostry, But Now I Am Foundry
Pat Gelsinger, current chief executive officer at Intel and formerly the head of its Data Center Group as well as its chief technology officer, famously invented the tick-tock method of chip launches to bring some order and reason to the way the world’s largest chip maker – as it was in the mid-2000s – mitigated risk and spurred innovation in its products. …
AI
Groq Says It Can Deploy 1 Million AI Inference Chips In Two Years
If you are looking for an alternative to Nvidia GPUs for AI inference – and who isn’t these days with generative AI being the hottest thing since a volcanic eruption – then you might want to give Groq a call. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
Compute
Ventana Launches Veyron V2 RISC-V Into The Datacenter
It took the X86 architecture fifteen years get an appreciable share of datacenter compute, and it took the Arm architecture about ten years to get a foothold you could measure. …
Compute
Intel Is Counting On AI Inference To Save The Xeon CPU
There is little question that generative AI as well as other kinds of machine learning are going to augment applications in every industry and in every part of the application stack in the coming years. …
Compute
Intel Gets Its Chiplets In Order With 6th Gen Xeon SPs
Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make the Xeon SP family of CPUs more competitive next year. …