For those of us who like hardware and were hoping for a big reveal about the TPUv5e AI processor and surrounding system, interconnect, and software stack at the Hot Chips 2023 conference this week, the opening keynote by Jeff Dean and Amin Vahdat, the two most important techies at Google, was a bit of a disappointment. …
Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …
We learn a lot of lessons from the hyperscalers and HPC centers of the world, and one of them is that those who control their own software control their own fates. …
The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …
A year ago, at its Google I/O 2022 event, Google revealed to the world that it had eight pods of TPUv4 accelerators, with a combined 32,768 of its fourth generation, homegrown matrix math accelerators, running in a machine learning hub located in its Mayes County, Oklahoma datacenter. …
Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. …
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. …
Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. …
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
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