Tag: AI accelerator
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The Register: IBM’s big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ibm_z17_spyre_accelerator/ Source: The Register Title: IBM’s big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month Feedly Summary: Giving the mainframe customers what they want IBM’s Spyre Accelerator is set to be generally available later this month, delivering a boost to the AI capabilities of its enterprise-grade hardware including the z17 mainframe, LinuxONE…
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The Register: Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/microsoft_maia_dc/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips Feedly Summary: Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond’s leaders want to shift the majority of…
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Cloud Blog: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-flex-start-vms-for-the-compute-engine-instance-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs Feedly Summary: Innovating with AI requires accelerators such as GPUs that can be hard to come by in times of extreme demand. To address this challenge, we offer Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS), a service that optimizes access to compute resources…
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The Register: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/huawei_ascend_roadmap/ Source: The Register Title: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters Feedly Summary: On the same day that fellow Chinese giant Tencent says its overseas cloud clientele doubled Chinese tech giant Huawei has kicked off its annual “Connect” conference by laying out a plan to…
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The Register: If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/openai_broadcom_ai_chips/ Source: The Register Title: If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like Feedly Summary: Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up? Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid…
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The Register: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/china_alibaba_ai_accelerator/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Feedly Summary: Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…