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How AWS Plans to Cope with GenAI’s Insatiable Desire for Compute

Companies that toyed around with generative AI this year will be looking to play for keeps in 2024 with production GenAI apps that move the business needle. Considering there’s not enough GPUs to go around now, where w Read more…

The IBM-Meta AI Alliance Promotes Safe and Open AI Progress

IBM and Meta have co-launched a massive industry-academic-government alliance to shepherd AI development. The new group has united under the AI Alliance banner to promote responsible innovation in AI. Historically, techn Read more…

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…

Google Announces Open Source ML Compiler Project, OpenXLA

At its Next ‘22 event, Google Cloud announced the launch of an open source machine learning compiler ecosystem, OpenXLA. OpenXLA is a community-led and open source ecosystem of ML compiler and infrastructure project 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…

‘Octomize’ Your ML Code

If you’re spending months hand-tuning your machine learning model to run well on a particular type of processor, you might be interested in a startup called OctoML, which recently raised $28 million to bring its innova Read more…

Exploring Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

As the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and big data analytics continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important for edge computing systems to process large data sets in a timely and effici Read more…

AMD Eyes Data-Driven Server Upgrades

AMD is zeroing in on datacenter overhauls needed to handle faster data and analytics as a means of chipping away at rival Intel Corp.’s x86 dominance of the enterprise IT infrastructure market. Some market analysts Read more…

A Wave of Purpose-Built AI Hardware Is Building

Google last week unveiled the third version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is designed to accelerate deep learning workloads developed in its TensorFlow environment. But that's just the start of a groundswell Read more…

How ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Will Impact Analytics

Organizations ramping up plans to employ big on-premise or cloud-based clusters to crunch big data sets are in for a nasty surprise thanks to the recently disclosed "Spectre" and "Meltdown" security vulnerabilities, whic Read more…

This Just In

Dell Generative AI Open Ecosystem with AMD Instinct Accelerators

Dec 8, 2023 |

Dec. 8, 2023 — Dell Technologies and AMD are coming together to unveil an expansion to the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, continuing the work of accelerating advanced workloads and offering businesses more choice to continue their unique GenAI journeys. Read more…

Supermicro Extends AI and GPU Rack Scale Solutions with Support for AMD Instinct MI300 Series Accelerators

Dec 7, 2023 |

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2023 — Supermicro, Inc., a Total IT Solution Manufacturer for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing three new additions to its AMD-based H13 generation of GPU Servers, optimized to deliver leading-edge performance and efficiency, powered by the new AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators. Read more…

Synopsys Partners with AMD, Intel, and Microsoft to Advance Generative AI in Semiconductor Industry

Nov 27, 2023 |

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 27, 2023 — Synopsys, Inc. today announced the expansion of its leading Synopsys.ai EDA suite, to bring the power of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) across the full stack in order to dramatically improve engineering productivity for the semiconductor industry. Read more…

Supermicro Discusses the Harmonizing of Data and Accelerated Computing in Current AI Solutions

Oct 13, 2023 |

TAIPEI, Oct. 13, 2023 — In 2024, the semiconductor sector will face several major changes. At the forefront of these changes are innovations in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI server supply chains. Read more…

AMD Unveils Purpose-Built, FPGA-Based Accelerator for Ultra-Low Latency Electronic Trading

Sep 27, 2023 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2023 — AMD today announced the AMD Alveo UL3524 accelerator card, a new fintech accelerator designed for ultra-low latency electronic trading applications. Already deployed by leading trading firms and enabling multiple solution partner offerings, the Alveo UL3524 provides proprietary traders, market makers, hedge funds, brokerages, and exchanges with a state-of-the-art FPGA platform for electronic trading at nanosecond (ns) speed. Read more…

AMD Deepens Cloud Security Collaboration: Open Sources Its EPYC Processor-based Confidential Computing Tech

Sep 1, 2023 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 1, 2023 — AMD announced it has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYC processor-based confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI). Read more…

AMD Showcases Continued Enterprise Data Center Momentum with EPYC CPUs and Pensando DPUs

Aug 21, 2023 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2023 — Today, at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas, AMD continued to showcase its proven performance and growing adoption of AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Pensando data processing units (DPUs) and adaptive computing products as ideal solutions for the most efficient and innovative virtualized environments. Read more…

AMD and AWS Introduce Advanced Amazon EC2 Instances, Supercharged with 4th Gen EPYC Processors

Aug 18, 2023 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2023 — AMD today announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that benefit from high performance, high throughput and tightly coupled HPC workloads, respectively. Read more…

AMD Study Reveals 75% of IT Leaders Optimistic About AI Benefits But Face Adoption Roadblocks

Aug 15, 2023 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 — Today, AMD released the findings from a new survey of global IT leaders which found that 3 in 4 IT leaders are optimistic about the potential benefits of AI — from increased employee efficiency to automated cybersecurity solutions — and more than 2 in 3 are increasing investments in AI technologies. Read more…

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Announces OCI Compute Instances Based on 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Jun 13, 2023 |

AUSTIN, Texas, June 13, 2023 — To make it easier for organizations to balance price and performance in their cloud environments and reduce costs, Oracle today announced plans to make available new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E5 instances with 4th generation AMD EPYC processors. Read more…

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