HBM dominance could double SK Hynix’s market cap
The AI hype has turned Nvidia into a trillion-dollar company. Although Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix will not reach that astronomical amount anytime soon, it claims it's on track to double its value within the next three years. As the court supplier of HBM memory for AI chips, that prediction... Read more
KU Leuven and imec present DIANA: the first AI chip of its kind
Researchers from imec and KU Leuven designed a chip to speed up AI computations. The chip, named DIANA, is the first AI accelerator to combine digital and analogue processors. A promising feat.
The researchers combined a digital and analogue processor. According to imec and KU Leuven (universit... Read more
AMD reveals the world’s fastest HPC GPU accelerator for servers
The MI100 is the first GPU accelerator with new AMD CDNA architecture.
This week Advanced Micro Devices announced the new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator. The company claims that the MI100 world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU to surpass the 10 teraflops (FP64) performance barrie... Read more
Sony introduces Vision Sensor with AI engine for image analysis
Sony introduces its Intelligent Vision Sensor. A camera sensor with its own AI engine and memory that allows image analysis to be performed on the chip itself.
The Sony IMX500 is a 12.3-megapixel sensor of the 1/2.3 type. It is a stacked sensor in which the light-sensitive layer is mounted on to... Read more
Intel pays billions for AI chip maker Habana Labs
Approximately two billion dollars in deposits from Intel for the acquisition of chipmaker Habana Labs. The Israeli company specialises in making AI chips that can be used to speed up certain processes.
The acquisition of Habana Labs was a logical consequence of Intel's earlier expectations. The ... Read more
Huawei comes with AI chip with low energy consumption
Huawei announces an AI chip called Ascend 910. The chip would have a very low energy consumption of only 310 watts. Also, the computing power would be very high compared to other AI chips.
Originally, the chip would have had a power consumption of 350 watts, but this is now even lower, reports Z... Read more
Intel announces its first AI chip for data centers
Intel announced at an event in Israel that it will release its first AI chip for data centers. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference, as the chip is officially called, is intended for use in large data centers that run AI workloads.
The chip is an edited version of the 10-nm Ice Lake... Read more