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

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.
Hardware

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.
Hardware

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.
Hardware

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

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.
Hardware

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
Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.
Hardware

Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.

Quantum computing has made great strides in recent years, though it still faces significant challenges. If and when it gets here, machine learning may be ready for it.

March 18, 20202 min read
Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.
Hardware

Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.

Quantum computing has made great strides in recent years, though it still faces significant challenges. If and when it gets here, machine learning may be ready for it.

March 18, 20202 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Hardware

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Hardware

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
Not Your Father’s GPU: Nvidia released two chips designed for AI.
Hardware

Not Your Father’s GPU: Nvidia released two chips designed for AI.

Intel, which dominates the market for general-purpose processors, is shipping its long-awaited AI chips. The chip giant announced that two so-called neural network processors are available to data-center customers.

November 27, 20192 min read
Not Your Father’s GPU: Nvidia released two chips designed for AI.
Hardware

Not Your Father’s GPU: Nvidia released two chips designed for AI.

Intel, which dominates the market for general-purpose processors, is shipping its long-awaited AI chips. The chip giant announced that two so-called neural network processors are available to data-center customers.

November 27, 20192 min read
Size Matters
Hardware

Size Matters

Silicon Valley startup Cerebras shifted out of stealth mode to unveil its flagship product: an enormous chip designed from the ground up to accelerate neural networks.

August 28, 20192 min read
Size Matters
Hardware

Size Matters

Silicon Valley startup Cerebras shifted out of stealth mode to unveil its flagship product: an enormous chip designed from the ground up to accelerate neural networks.

August 28, 20192 min read

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