Tag: accelerators
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The Register: Just how deep is Nvidia’s CUDA moat really?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/nvidia_cuda_moat/ Source: The Register Title: Just how deep is Nvidia’s CUDA moat really? Feedly Summary: Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on…
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The Register: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/ Source: The Register Title: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding Feedly Summary: Sometimes two models really are faster than one Hands on When it comes to AI inferencing, the faster you can generate a response, the better – and over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number…
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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…