Tag: chip
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The Register: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/googles_7thgen_ironwood_tpus_debut/ Source: The Register Title: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Feedly Summary: Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216…
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Cloud Blog: GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/benchmarking-a-65000-node-gke-cluster-with-ai-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re continuously working on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) scalability so it can run increasingly demanding workloads. Recently, we announced that GKE can support a massive 65,000-node cluster, up from 15,000 nodes. This…
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The Register: Lightmatter says it’s ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/lightmatter_photonics_passage/ Source: The Register Title: Lightmatter says it’s ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer Feedly Summary: AI accelerators to see the light, literally Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.… AI Summary…
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The Register: Arm reckons it’ll own 50% of the datacenter by year’s end
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/arm_datacenter_cpu_market/ Source: The Register Title: Arm reckons it’ll own 50% of the datacenter by year’s end Feedly Summary: Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… AI…
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The Register: Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it’s leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/cerebras_ipo_roadblock/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it’s leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO Feedly Summary: Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE’s G42 planned stake AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering…
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The Register: Nvidia’s latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you’re a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/can_nvidia_shakeup_pcs/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you’re a data scientist with $3,000 to spare Feedly Summary: But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? Analysis Disrupt? It’s an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to…