Graphcore raises $222 million in Series E Funding Round
Funding will help the company scale up AI chip production.
Graphcore announced this week that it has raised $222 million in a Series E funding round. The round values the company at $2.77 billion post-money.
The company makes what they call an Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). This is a n...
Nvidia announces Q3 results, looks to microservices for future growth
Largest growth area in Q3 was the Gaming sector.
Nvidia announced surprisingly strong third quarter results this week, with CEO Jensen Huang painting a rosy picture for the future.
The company beat Wall Street expectations and posted a record revenue of $4.73 billion, a whopping 57 percent in...
Intel launches server GPU focused on Android cloud gaming
Intel has released its first GPU for use in servers. The graphics card is designed to excel in streaming games and media to Android devices.
The new GPU is the latest showing of Intel's efforts to become a bigger player in the GPU market with the Xe line of products. The company's ultimate goal ...
Intel announces relatively fast Iris Xe Max GPU for laptops
Intel has announced three manufacturers that will incorporate its new Iris GPU into their laptops. Acer, Asus and Dell are going to try the new GPU, which competes with entry-level chips from Nvidia.
The Intel Iris Xe Max is based on the same architecture that can also be found in other Iris Xe ...
Nvidia sets new record in MLPerf benchmark
Nvidia's A100 GPGPU has broken several records in the MLPerf benchmark for machine learning applications. The new chip performs roughly six to eight times better than its Turing-based predecessor.
In the MLPerf benchmark, the A100 GPGPU was compared to the Nvidia T4, as well as the Xilinx U250 a...
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...