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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…
Nvidia CEO Touts a ‘Million X’ Speedup in AI
A decade ago, Google talked about “thinking in 10x.” Whether it’s Moore’s Law or the current rate of inflation, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has one-upped his fellow Silicon Valley technologists by thinking in mil Read more…
Avoid the Hidden Challenges of Data Migration
To grow in today’s digital world, many companies are adopting a cloud computing strategy. Driven by core objectives like rapidly expanding customer reach and improving IT spend efficiency, pressure from the C-suite to Read more…
Bank Replaces Hundreds of Spark Streaming Nodes with Kinetica
Kinetica got its start serving queries on fast-moving geospatial and temporal data for the Department of Defense. Now it’s moving into other industries with similar big data problems, including finance, where one large Read more…
News In Brief
Nvidia Launches Hopper H100 GPU, New DGXs and Grace Superchips
The battle for datacenter dominance keeps getting hotter. Today, Nvidia kicked off its spring GTC event with new silicon, new software and a new supercomputer. Speaking from a virtual environment in the Nvidia Omnivers Read more…
Run:ai Seeks to Grow AI Virtualization with $75M Round
Run:ai, a provider of an AI virtualization layer that helps optimize GPU instances, yesterday announced a Series C round worth $75 million. The funding figures to help the fast-growing company expand its sales reach and Read more…
OmniSci Gets HEAVY New Name and New CEO
OmniSci, developers of a GPU-based analytics database, today announced it has changed its name to HEAVY.AI. There’s also a change of leadership at the top of the San Francisco company, as Jon Kondo takes over for co-fo Read more…
DeepliteRT Enables Fast and Efficient AI Modeling on Edge Devices
Enterprises today have increasingly complex and expansive datasets that require substantial computing resources to manage. Machine learning with artificial intelligence models has been an indispensable tool for reducing Read more…
This Just In
LAS VEGAS, May 11, 2021 — Tachyum today launched the world’s first universal processor, Prodigy, which unifies the functionality of a CPU, GPU and TPU in a single processor, creating a homogeneous architecture, while delivering massive performance improvements at a cost many times less than competing products. Read more…
ARMONK, N.Y., April 5, 2022 — IBM today unveiled IBM z16, IBM’s next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized inferencing. Read more…
Jan. 5, 2022 — Tuesday at CES 2022, Intel launched 12th Gen Intel Core processors (code-named Alder Lake S-series and H-series), the first family of processors enhanced for the edge to feature performance hybrid architecture that combines Performance-cores and Efficient-cores with Intel Thread Director. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4, 2022 — Bodo Inc. today announced a collaboration with Xilinx, Inc., including a Xilinx investment in Bodo, to further develop parallel computing technology that will simplify access to highly efficient media processing on FPGA-enabled clusters. Read more…
Nov. 23, 2021 — Intel welcomes Snowflake to the Intel Disruptor Initiative Program. Working together, Intel and Snowflake provide customers with performance and increased flexibility across multiple public clouds with Snowflake’s Data Cloud using Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Xeon-based cloud instances. Read more…