AI
The Separate But Equal AI Realms Of China And The US
China has lots of coal but it does not have a lot of GPUs or other kinds of tensor and vector math accelerators appropriate for HPC and AI. …
HiSilicon
AI
Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China
Each time that the United States has figured out that it needed to do export controls on massively parallel compute engines to try to discourage China from buying such gear and building supercomputers with them, it has already been too late to have much of a long term effect on China’s ability to run the advanced HPC simulations and AI training workloads that we were worried would be enabled by such computing oomph. …
Compute
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Compute
ARM Goes To War In The Datacenter With “Ares” Designs
When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched its Neoverse revamping of the Arm architecture for the datacenter and the edge last October, the company put the architecture on a strict annual cadence and promised to deliver 30 percent performance increases at the system level with each generation. …
Compute
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …