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Built to Scale: Andromeda Supercomputer from Cerebras Speeds up AI
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Built to Scale: Andromeda Supercomputer from Cerebras Speeds up AI

A new computing cluster delivers more bang per chip. Cerebras unveiled Andromeda, a supercomputer based on its processors. Unlike conventional clusters, the system’s processing speed rises linearly with additional processors.

November 23, 20222 min read
Built to Scale: Andromeda Supercomputer from Cerebras Speeds up AI
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Built to Scale: Andromeda Supercomputer from Cerebras Speeds up AI

A new computing cluster delivers more bang per chip. Cerebras unveiled Andromeda, a supercomputer based on its processors. Unlike conventional clusters, the system’s processing speed rises linearly with additional processors.

November 23, 20222 min read
No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
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No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage

Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.

October 26, 20222 min read
No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
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No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage

Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.

October 26, 20222 min read
The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China
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The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China

The ban impacts Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips, and AMD's MI250.

September 7, 20222 min read
The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China
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The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China

The ban impacts Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips, and AMD's MI250.

September 7, 20222 min read
Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.
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Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.

The hardware that runs the latest AI systems faces rising uncertainty as models grow larger and more computationally intensive. The U.S. Commerce Department sounded an alarm over bottlenecks in the availability of semiconductor chips.

February 2, 20222 min read
Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.
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Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.

The hardware that runs the latest AI systems faces rising uncertainty as models grow larger and more computationally intensive. The U.S. Commerce Department sounded an alarm over bottlenecks in the availability of semiconductor chips.

February 2, 20222 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
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Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI

After years of trailing other tech giants in AI, Apple has a new ambition: to become the industry’s leading purveyor of products powered by machine learning. In an interview with Ars Technica, the company’s AI chief argues that its pro-privacy.

August 12, 20212 min read
Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
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Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI

After years of trailing other tech giants in AI, Apple has a new ambition: to become the industry’s leading purveyor of products powered by machine learning. In an interview with Ars Technica, the company’s AI chief argues that its pro-privacy.

August 12, 20212 min read
Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.
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Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.

A neural network wrote the blueprint for upcoming computer chips that will accelerate deep learning itself. Google engineers used a reinforcement learning system to arrange the billions of minuscule transistors in an upcoming version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips.

June 16, 20212 min read

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