Tag: processors

  • Hacker News: Benchmarks of Google’s Axion Arm-Based CPU

    Source URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-axion-c4a Source: Hacker News Title: Benchmarks of Google’s Axion Arm-Based CPU Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s introduction of the Axion Arm-based CPU and C4A instances provides a notable enhancement in performance and energy efficiency for their cloud offerings. This move aligns with current industry trends as major cloud…

  • Cloud Blog: C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/try-c4a-the-first-google-axion-processor/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU Feedly Summary: At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series,…

  • Cloud Blog: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-sixth-generation-tpu-is-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future Feedly Summary: The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing…

  • The Register: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/amd_q3_2024/ Source: The Register Title: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations Feedly Summary: Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct AMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators – its…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026

    Source URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282843/openai-custom-hardware-amd-nvidia-ai-chips Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI is advancing its efforts in custom silicon development for AI workloads by collaborating with Broadcom and utilizing AMD chips in Microsoft Azure. However,…

  • The Register: The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/cpu_gen_ai_gpu/ Source: The Register Title: The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI Feedly Summary: At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar Analysis Today, most GenAI models are trained and run on GPUs or some other specialized accelerator, but that doesn’t mean they have to be. In fact,…

  • Hacker News: Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text

    Source URL: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/ Source: Hacker News Title: Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of Moonshine, a new speech-to-text model designed to outperform OpenAI’s Whisper in both speed and efficiency, while ensuring high accuracy. The model’s unique…

  • The Register: Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/samsung_phone_eop_attacks/ Source: The Register Title: Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns Feedly Summary: Don’t ignore this nasty zero day exploit says TAG A nasty bug in Samsung’s mobile chips is being exploited by miscreants as part of an exploit chain to escalate privileges and then remotely execute arbitrary code, according to Google…

  • The Register: Codasip opens up SDK for CHERI protection on RISC-V chips

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/codasip_sdk_riscv_chip/ Source: The Register Title: Codasip opens up SDK for CHERI protection on RISC-V chips Feedly Summary: Alliance commits to Integrating the architecture into all high-tech products Processor design outfit Codasip is donating an SDK it developed for the CHERI security architecture to the industry body that promotes the technology, saying this will…

  • Hacker News: RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile

    Source URL: https://riscv.org/announcements/2024/10/risc-v-announces-ratification-of-the-rva23-profile-standard/ Source: Hacker News Title: RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The ratification of the RVA23 Profile by RISC-V International marks a significant advancement in providing standardized extensions for RISC-V processors, notably in areas crucial for AI/ML and enterprise workloads. This profile enhances…