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Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox workstations aimed at software developers. The whole of today's release is aimed at developers rather than those who will deploy the Wormhole boards for their commercial workloads. “It is always rewarding to get more of our products into developer hands. Releasing development systems with our Wormhole™ card helps developers scale up and work on multi-chip AI software.” said Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent. “In addition to this launch, we are excited that the tape-out and power-on for our second generation, Blackhole, is going very well.” Each...
The AMD Advancing AI & Instinct MI300 Launch Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/18:00 UTC)
This morning is an important one for AMD – perhaps the most important of the year. After almost a year and a half of build-up, and even longer for...
10 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 12/6/2023Amazon's Trainium2 AI Accelerator Features 96 GB of HBM, Quadruples Training Performance
Amazon Web Services this week introduced Trainium2, its new accelerator for artificial intelligence (AI) workload that tangibly increases performance compared to its predecessor, enabling AWS to train foundation models...
19 by Anton Shilov on 11/30/2023Arm Total Design to Facilitate Development of Custom Datacenter SoCs
Arm this week introduced its Arm Total Design initiative, which is aimed at accelerating development of custom datacenter-oriented system-on-chip (SoC) designs using Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS). The collaborative ecosystem...
1 by Anton Shilov on 10/18/2023Tenstorrent to Use Samsung’s SF4X for Quasar Low-Cost AI Chiplet
Tenstorrent this week announced that it had chosen to use Samsung's SF4X (4 nm-class) process technology for its upcoming low-cost, low-power codenamed Quasar chiplet for machine learning workloads. The...
13 by Anton Shilov on 10/3/2023Synopsys Surpasses $500M/Year in AI Chip Revenue, Expects Further Rapid Growth
Demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications is so high that NVIDIA's high-performance compute GPUs like A100 and H100 are reportedly sold out for quarters to come. Dozens of...
5 by Anton Shilov on 8/22/2023AI Server Market to Reach $150 Billion by 2027 - Foxconn
Demand for generative AI services is skyrocketing and driving the need for AI servers and machines that are substantially different from traditional servers. The category is growing so quickly...
4 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2023Cloud Provider Gets $2.3 Billion Debt Using NVIDIA's H100 as Collateral
CoreWeave, an NVIDIA-backed cloud service provider specializing in GPU-accelerated services, has secured a debt facility worth $2.3 billion using NVIDIA's H100-based hardware as collateral. The company intends to use...
18 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2023Cerebras to Enable 'Condor Galaxy' Network of AI Supercomputers: 36 ExaFLOPS for AI
Cerebras Systems and G42, a tech holding group, have unveiled their Condor Galaxy project, a network of nine interlinked supercomputers for AI model training with aggregated performance of 36...
1 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2023The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed: 2 ExaFLOPS, Tens of Thousands of CPUs and GPUs
Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer, a machine announced back in 2015 with a particularly bumpy...
39 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023AMD Ryzen Pro 7000 and 7040 Series Processors : Zen 4 For Commercial Deployments
As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional and commercial line-up of these processors a few months...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/13/2023TSMC Preps 6x Reticle Size Super Carrier Interposer for Extreme SiP Processors
As part of their efforts to push the boundaries on the largest manufacturable chip sizes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working on its new Chip-On-Wafer-On-Substrate-L (CoWoS-L) packaging technology that...
2 by Anton Shilov on 5/26/2023AMD To Host AI and Data Center Event on June 13th - MI300 Details Inbound?
In a brief note posted to its investor relations portal this morning, AMD has announced that they will be holding a special AI and data center-centric event on June...
2 by Ryan Smith on 5/9/2023Supermicro Lists Intel Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' Based Machines
Supermicro this week began to list the industry's first commercial servers based on Intel's Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' compute GPUs. The machines use Ponte Vecchio in add-in-board...
1 by Anton Shilov on 5/4/2023Synopsys Intros AI-Powered EDA Suite to Accelerate Chip Design and Cut Costs
Synopsys has introduced the industry's first full-stack AI-powered suite of electronic design automation tools that covers all stages of chip design, from architecture to design and implementation to manufacturing...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/30/2023Cerebras Completes Series F Funding, Another $250M for $4B Valuation
Every once in a while, a startup comes along with something out of left field. In the AI hardware generation, Cerebras holds that title, with their Wafer Scale Engine...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/10/2021Cerebras In The Cloud: Get Your Wafer Scale in an Instance
To date, most of the new AI hardware entering the market has been a ‘purchase necessary’ involvement. For any business looking to go down the route of using specialized...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/16/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Machine Learning (Graphcore, Cerebras, SambaNova, Anton)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Machine Learning (Esperanto, Enflame, Qualcomm)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Keynote Live Blog: Skydio and Autonomous Flight
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Cadence Cerebrus to Enable Chip Design with ML: PPA Optimization in Hours, not Months
The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021