Tag: accelerators
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The Register: Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/broadcom_q4_fy_2024_vmware/ Source: The Register Title: Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped Feedly Summary: Also predicts it will take lion’s share of hyperscalers’ $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm XPUs coming next year Broadcom has told investors its integration of VMware is all but done, ahead…
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Cloud Blog: Announcing the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-tpu-is-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU Feedly Summary: The rise of large-scale AI models capable of processing diverse modalities like text and images presents a unique infrastructural challenge. These models require immense computational power and specialized hardware to efficiently handle training, fine-tuning, and inference. Over…
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The Register: Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/03/biden_hbm_china_export_ban/ Source: The Register Title: Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators Feedly Summary: 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist The Biden administration has announced restrictions limiting the export of memory critical to the production of AI accelerators and banning sales to more than a…
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Slashdot: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/0332203/us-to-reportedly-sanction-200-more-chinese-chip-firms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. government’s imposition of sanctions on Chinese chipmakers is a strategic move aimed at curtailing China’s semiconductor and AI capabilities. This focus on restricting technology exports, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM),…
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Hacker News: YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
Source URL: https://www.zach.be/p/yc-is-wrong-about-llms-for-chip-design Source: Hacker News Title: YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques Y Combinator’s (YC) recent interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for chip design, arguing that it fundamentally underestimates the complexities involved in chip architecture and design. It…
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The Register: Nvidia’s MLPerf submission shows B200 offers up to 2.2x training performance of H100
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/13/nvidia_b200_performance/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s MLPerf submission shows B200 offers up to 2.2x training performance of H100 Feedly Summary: Is Huang leaving even more juice on the table by opting for mid-tier Blackwell part? Signs point to yes Analysis Nvidia offered the first look at how its upcoming Blackwell accelerators stack up…
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Cloud Blog: 65,000 nodes and counting: Google Kubernetes Engine is ready for trillion-parameter AI models
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-65k-nodes-and-counting/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 65,000 nodes and counting: Google Kubernetes Engine is ready for trillion-parameter AI models Feedly Summary: As generative AI evolves, we’re beginning to see the transformative potential it is having across industries and our lives. And as large language models (LLMs) increase in size — current models are reaching…
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Cloud Blog: Unlocking LLM training efficiency with Trillium — a performance analysis
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-mlperf-41-training-benchmarks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlocking LLM training efficiency with Trillium — a performance analysis Feedly Summary: Rapidly evolving generative AI models place unprecedented demands on the performance and efficiency of hardware accelerators. Last month, we launched our sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Trillium, to address the demands of next-generation models. Trillium is…