Nvidia unveils a data processing unit named BlueField-2 for use in data centers
Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference usually places a lot of emphasis on their hallmark GPUs. However, in the company's latest event, the GPUs were not the only thing in the spotlight. Nvidia said that it has started sampling a DPU (Data Processing Unit.)
The DPU is aimed at data centers. It is of...
Arm launches new chip designs for use in autonomous systems
Arm announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new set of solutions for autonomous systems in industrial and automotive applications. The chips include the Mali-G78AE GPU, the Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor, and the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU.
The highlight of these chips is t...
Oracle is spending a lot on its high-performance computing cloud services
Oracle is rolling out new offerings which should be very competitive to other cloud vendors. The new offering focusses on high performance cloud computing which is targeted towards customers who need high power for apps that deal with things like AI, video rendering or 3D visualization.
The comp...
MSI launches a new line of business-class laptops named Summit series
MSI's past laptops for gaming have performed well, and now, it is time to see what their business-class laptop series will offer. Just last week, MSI hosted a virtual summit where they announced several new machines, driven by the 11th generation of Intel CPUs.
Most of what was discussed t...
Nvidia unveils new 28B-transistor GPUs that are the fastest ever made
Nvidia unveiled a new flagship line of GPUS in the RTX 30 series, starting with the 28-billion transistor chip. They claim it is the fastest GPU ever built for gaming and creative work involving a lot of rendering.
Nvidia is one of the largest and major supplier of chips to data centers. They ar...
‘Nvidia wants to deliver a complete data center portfolio’
Nvidia will be focusing more on the data center solutions and wants to deliver a complete portfolio for that market. This was revealed in a recent interview with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang in the Financial Times.
The interview in the business newspaper shows that Nvidia wants to become the leadin...
Intel’s 7nm process node delayed by six months
Intel has announced that the 7nm process node is six months behind on schedule. Even though six months is still manageable, this means the first PC processors using the 7nm node are expected to arrive at the end of 2022 or perhaps even early 2023.
The first data center processor with 7nm technol...
Nvidia’s latest A100 GPU debuts on Google Cloud
The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance series on Google Cloud.
The company claims that the new chip, built using Nvidia's new Ampere architecture, is the most powerful GPU the company has ever produced. Designed primari...
Google gives Dataproc GPUs and automation options
Google has recently updated its cloud service Dataproc
with new features. Dataproc users can use GPUs and various automated features
with the new update.
The tech giant indicates that the new features will mainly boost machine learning projects and will facilitate the daily maintenance of these ...
Nividia launches AI workloads for VMware Cloud on AWS
Nividia will bring AI and machine learning to the cloud. More specifically, "accelerated GPU services" are offered for VMware Cloud on AWS.
According to SiliconAngle, the new service makes it possible to migrate existing vSphere applications to Vmware Cloud on AWS. After this migration, it will b...
Intel launches 10 nanometers of Ice Lacquer processors
Intel has launched the first eleven 10 nanometer Ice Lacquer CPUs. Intel has been working on the chip architecture for years, which had to contend with considerable delays.
The new CPUs are capable of executing 18 percent more instructions per clock cycle than previous generations of processors, ...
AWS introduces EC2 instances with Nvidia Tesla T4 chips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced EC2 instances with Tesla T4 GPUs from Nvidia, reports Venturebeat. The instances will be available to users in G4 instances in the coming week. T4 will also be available through the Amazon Elastic Container service for Kubernetes.
The new instance will get Nv...