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Nvidia Unveils GPUs for Generative Inference Workloads like ChatGPT

Today at its GPU Technology Conference, NVidia took the wraps off three new GPUs designed to accelerate inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos. It also launched Read more…

NeuroBlade Seeks Controlled Growth for Big Data Bottleneck-Buster

Early adopters of NeuroBlade’s processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture, called XRAM, are showing a 10x to 60X boost in throughput for big SQL workloads. But the company is playing it safe on the growth front, so don’ Read more…

The Race to Ensure Post Quantum Data Security

Fault-tolerant quantum computers won’t exist for years – a decade is the most common estimate. When they do arrive, thanks to Shor’s now-famous algorithm, they will be able to crack the most widely-used encryptio Read more…

d-Matrix Gets Funding to Build SRAM ‘Chiplets’ for AI Inference

Hardware startup d-Matrix says the $44 million it raised in a Series A round today will help it continue development of a novel “chiplet” architecture that uses 6 nanometer chip embedded in SRAM memory modules for ac Read more…

Birds Aren’t Real. And Neither Is MLOps

Are birds real? A group of 20-somethings tried to convince us they weren’t in the past few years, to varying degrees of success. And now a University of Washington professor wants us to believe that MLOps isn’t real, Read more…

News In Brief

OpenXLA Delivers Flexibility for ML Apps

Machine learning developers gained new abilities to develop and run their ML programs on the framework and hardware of their choice thanks to the OpenXLA Project, which today announced the availability of key open source Read more…

AWS Introduces a Flurry of New EC2 Instances at re:Invent

AWS has announced three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS-designed chips, as well as several new Intel-powered instances at its AWS re:Invent 2022 event in Las Vegas. The first new Read more…

IBM Collaboration Looks to Bring Massive AI Models to Any Cloud

Training machine learning foundation models with sometimes billions of parameters demands serious computing power. For example, the largest version of GPT-3, the famous large language model behind OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, ha Read more…

Quine Streaming Graph Processes Over One Million Events Per Second

Quine, a real-time graph data processing engine for ETL pipelines, has reached a performance benchmark of processing one million events per second, according to its maker, thatDot. Named after logician Willard Van Orm Read more…

AMD Previews 400 Gig Adaptive SmartNIC SOC at Hot Chips

Fresh from finalizing its acquisitions of FPGA provider Xilinx (Feb. 2022) and DPU provider Pensando (May 2022), AMD previewed what it calls a 400 Gig Adaptive smartNIC SOC yesterday at Hot Chips. It is another cont Read more…

This Just In

NVIDIA and Intel Announce Next-Gen Workstations

Feb 16, 2023 |

Feb. 16, 2023 — AI-augmented applications, photorealistic rendering, simulation and other technologies are helping professionals achieve business-critical results from multi-app workflows faster than ever.

Running these data-intensive, complex workflows, as well as sharing data and collaborating across geographically dispersed teams, requires workstations with high-end CPUs, GPUs and advanced networking. Read more…

Intel Launches New Xeon Workstation Processors

Feb 16, 2023 |

Feb. 16, 2023 — Intel has announced the new Intel Xeon W-3400 and Intel Xeon W-2400 desktop workstation processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), led by the Intel Xeon w9-3495X, Intel’s most powerful desktop workstation processor ever designed. Read more…

Deci Delivers Breakthrough Inference Performance on Intel’s 4th Gen Sapphire Rapids CPU

Jan 25, 2023 |

TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 25, 2023 — Deci, today announced a breakthrough performance on Intel’s newly released 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. Read more…

Rockset Achieves 84% Faster Real-Time Analytics With Intel Processors

Nov 16, 2022 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 16th, 2022 — Rockset, the Real-time Analytics Database Built for the Cloud, today unveiled a new release that leverages 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI accelerators, and also announced a strategic collaboration with Intel. Read more…

AMD Announces GA of 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Nov 11, 2022 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 — AMD has announced the general availability of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, with unmatched performance for critical workloads across cloud, enterprise and high performance computing. Read more…

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