AI Chip Leaders Join Forces: Nvidia announces intent to purchase Arm.
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AI Chip Leaders Join Forces: Nvidia announces intent to purchase Arm.

A major corporate acquisition could reshape the hardware that makes AI tick.What’s new: U.S. processor giant Nvidia, the world’s leading vendor of the graphics processing units (GPUs) that perform calculations for deep learning, struck a deal to purchase UK chip designer Arm for $40 billion.

September 23, 20202 min read
AI Chip Leaders Join Forces: Nvidia announces intent to purchase Arm.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

AI Chip Leaders Join Forces: Nvidia announces intent to purchase Arm.

A major corporate acquisition could reshape the hardware that makes AI tick.What’s new: U.S. processor giant Nvidia, the world’s leading vendor of the graphics processing units (GPUs) that perform calculations for deep learning, struck a deal to purchase UK chip designer Arm for $40 billion.

September 23, 20202 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
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Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
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New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

August 5, 20201 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

August 5, 20201 min read
Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions
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Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions

The latest update of the acclaimed real-time object detector You Only Look Once is more accurate than ever. Researchers at Taiwan’s Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica offer YOLOv4 — the first version not to include the architecture’s original creators.

June 3, 20202 min read
Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions

The latest update of the acclaimed real-time object detector You Only Look Once is more accurate than ever. Researchers at Taiwan’s Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica offer YOLOv4 — the first version not to include the architecture’s original creators.

June 3, 20202 min read
Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.
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Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.

May 27, 20201 min read
Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.

May 27, 20201 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read

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